Person:Peter Lely (1)

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Sir Peter Lely
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  1. Sir Peter Lely1618 - 1680
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  1. Anne LelyAft 1660 -
  2. John LelyAft 1660 -
Facts and Events
Name[1] Sir Peter Lely
Gender Male
Birth[1] 14 Sep 1618 Soest, Utrecht, Netherlands
Alt Birth[1] 14 Sep 1618 Soest, Westfalen, Preußen, Germany
Residence[1][2] 1637 Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Marriage to Unknown
Immigration[1][3] Apr 1641 England
Title (nobility)[1] 11 Jan 1679 London, London, EnglandKnighted and granted arms at the Palace of Whitehall
Will[1][5] 4 Feb 1679
Occupation[1] artist (painter)
Death[1] 30 Nov 1680 London, London, EnglandCovent Garden district, at his home
Burial[1][4] 7 Dec 1680 London, London, EnglandSt. Paul's in Covent Garden district

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Lely, Peter (DNBoo), in Wikisource
    1893.

    The WikiSource text was created in Jan-Feb 2013.

  2. In 1637, Lely was a pupil of the painter Franz Pietersz de Grebber.
  3. Accompanied William, Prince of Orange, and subsequently painted portraits of he and his wife of 2 May, Mary, daughter of Charles I.
  4. "He was buried by torchlight on 7 Dec. in St. Paul's, Covent Garden, where a monument was erected to his memory, containing a bust by Grinling Gibbons and an inscription by Thomas Flatman."
  5. "In his will, dated 4 Feb. 1679 (printed in full in ‘Wills from Doctors' Commons,’ Camd. Soc.), he appointed Roger North (d. 1734) [q. v.], with whom as with his brothers he was on terms of great intimacy, one of his executors and guardian of his children."