↑ In 1637, Lely was a pupil of the painter Franz Pietersz de Grebber.
↑ Accompanied William, Prince of Orange, and subsequently painted portraits of he and his wife of 2 May, Mary, daughter of Charles I.
↑ "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."
↑ "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."