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Charlotte, Countess of Lichfield, Charles
II
’s favourite daughter and one of his five children by Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, by Lely.
Isometric view of St Paul’s Cathedral, London.
Henry Purcell, 1695, by or after Closterman.
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester,
c
. 1665, after Huysmans.
The Empress of Morocco
by Elkanah Settle at the Dorset Garden Theatre, 1673.
John Evelyn by Nanteuil, 1650.
John Dryden, the Poet Laureate, by Keneller, 1693.
Charles
II
in 1684 (the last year of his life) by Laroon; the portrait was commissioned by Christ’s Hospital and shows the King as Founder of the Royal Society.
Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby.
Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, after Lely; the wound on his nose, covered by a black plaster, was received in the Civil War.
Thomas, 1st Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, after Lely.
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, painted in about 1675, when he was forty-seven, by Lely.
John Maitland, Earl and later Duke of Lauderdale, with his formidable Duchess, Bess, Countess of Dysart in her own right, by Lely.
James Butler, Marquess and later Duke of Ormonde,
c
. 1665, after Lely.

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