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All Sir Peter Lely's lewd women, and Kneller's too, were in these rooms; and the jolly old stupidity of George III. and his family, many times repeated; and pictures by Titian, Rubens, and other famous hands, intermixed with many by West, which provokingly drew the eye away from their betters.
I should go every morning, at the hour when it gets the sun, into that long gallery where all those pretty women of Lely's are hung I know you despise them! and stroll up and down and say something kind to them. Poor precious forsaken creatures! So flattered and courted in their day, so neglected now! Offering up their shoulders and ringlets and smiles to that musty deadly silence!"
He thought, however, he should find them a little higher up the river." Lely's Portrait of Cromwell is thus introduced in the second volume: "Oliver now stood erect, with his back to a fire-place, and resembled the picture which had been lately painted of him by Lely.
It is one of the best Lely's I ever saw, and to me the gem of Tilghman's collection." "Yes; so Ollie tells me," continued Margaret. "Now this picture of the Countess is to me very much more in Velasquez's method than in Lely's. Broader and stronger and with a surer touch. I have always told Ollie he was right to give up landscapes. These two pictures show it. There is really, Mr.
I am inclined to credit this last claim, as I have noticed that the dress of the young lady had an air of the old school, though managed with native taste, and that her hair was put up very much in the style of Sir Peter Lely's portraits in the picture gallery.
Indiman, of course, took the head of the table, and opposite him, propped up on the arms of an enormous "bishop's chair" of Flemish oak, was Lely's portrait of the "Red Duchess." What a glorious picture it was, in the masterly sweep of its lines, in the splendor of its incomparable coloring!
"Such color, mother such an exquisite poise of the head and sweep to the shoulder " and the thumb described a curve in the air as if following every turn of Lely's brush. Her eyes followed his gestures she loved his enthusiasm, although she wished it had been about something else. "And you don't get any education out of the Judge's law-books?" "No, I wish I did."
In other cases it may imply merely indolent, enticing voluptuousness, as in Lely's portraits of women. The languor and weakness of the eyelids give the amorous turn to the expression. How should there be a rule for all this beforehand, seeing it depends on circumstances ever varying, and scarce discernible but by their effect on the mind?
Owner after owner said to admiring guests, 'Yes, a fine portrait, by Lely; she was my ancestress, a Fletwode of Fletwode. Now, lest guests should remember that a Fletwode married a Travers thou art thrust out of sight; not even Lely's art can make thee of value, can redeem thine innocent self from disgrace.
In Lely's portrait of her, she is a neat, slightly prim, delicate beauty, with very fine features, and such sleepy eyes, as were probably the gift of Lely, since he has bestowed them generally on the women whom he painted. Mistress Anne Killigrew's hair is in curls, piled up in front, but hanging down loosely behind.
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