The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 141
ich procured himvery deservedly the admiration of Europe ; but to equalhim in portraits with Raphael and Titian, according toZacchero, or to place him upon an equality with the bestof Raphaels disciples in composition, as the Abbe du Boshas done, appears altogether unjustifiable. In many re-spects,… … I SIR PETER LELY. Sir Peter Lely, the son of a captain of infantry,was born at Soest, in Westphalia, in 1617. He at firstattached himself to landscape painting ; but his excessiveprodigality urging him to make choice of a more lucrativepursuit, he directed his studies to portrait painting, bywhich,…
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