Artist: Pieter Van Der Faes (Peter Lely)
Size: 130 x 170 cm
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
Lely was the preeminent English court portraitist in the second half of the seventeenth century, filling the vacancy left by Van Dyck’s early death. His likeness of the aristocratic Capel sisters, a superb example of Lely’s characteristic shimmering draperies and pearlescent flesh tones, pays tribute both to the sitters’ beauty and their accomplishments. Mary, on the left, would become a major patron of botanical research, while Elizabeth displays one of her own flower paintings on the right.
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