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James, Duke of York, and his first wife, Anne Hyde, daughter of the Earl of Clarendon, painted by Lely, probably soon after their secret marriage was made public in late 1660.
Charles
II
in his box at Windsor Races, 24 August 1684. Engraving by Francis Barlow, 1687.
A game of real tennis, a sport of which Charles
II
was a passionate exponent, by Comenius, 1659.
Playing the game of pall-mall, which became very popular in St James’s Park, the course lying along the site of the present Mall.
Miniature of Charles
II
in 1665, at the age of 35, by Samuel Cooper (another version of this miniature was given by the King to his mistress Louise, Duchess of Portsmouth).
Medallion commemorating Charles
II
’s foundation of the Mathematical and Nautical School in Christ’s Hospital, by John Poettier, 1673. The reverse (
right
) depicts a Bluecoat boy being encouraged by figures representing Arithmetic, Astronomy, Mathematics and Mercury.
The King’s Ladies
Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond, by Lely.
Nell Gwynn, engraving by V. Green.
Hortense Mancini, Duchesse de Mazarin, by Mignard.
Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine and Duchess of Cleveland, about the age of thirty, by Lely.
Louise de Kéroüalle, Duchess of Portsmouth, described as ‘the most absolute of the King’s mistresses’; by Henri Gascar.
‘Don Carlo’ – Charles, Earl of Plymouth, the King’s son by Catharine Pegge, who died at Tangier in 1680; from the mezzotint by J. Savage.
Charles, Duke of Richmond and Lennox, only child of Charles
II
by Louise, Duchess of Portsmouth, by Henri Gascar.

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