The 11 Windsor Beauties by Sir Peter Lely, painted in the early to mid-1660s.
Mar 21, 2022
Portrait of Frances Theresa Stuart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox, circa 1662 and circa 1665
Medium oil on canvas
125.8 × 102.7 cm (49.5 × 40.4 in)
Hampton Court Palace
The ‘Windsor Beauties’ series, were a set of eleven portraits of celebrated women at the Restoration court. The series was commissioned, or assembled, by Anne Hyde, Duchess of York, probably around 1662–5; painted by Peter Lely (1618–1680), depicting the most beautiful ladies of the court of King Charles II of England…