Portrait of Mrs. Leneve, Peter Lely, c. 1657
Peter Lely, portrætPeter LelyEngland, 1618–1680

Portrait of Mrs. Leneve

c. 1657 · Painting

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This woman’s heavily lidded eyes, fleshy chin, and slender fingers conform to 17th-century ideals of beauty, but when the museum acquired this painting in 1942, her features had been extensively overpainted to bring her more in line with modern standards of beauty. This later intervention included lowering the sitter’s eyebrows, reducing her prominent eyes and lips, and adding curls to make her forehead appear smaller. Mrs. Leneve now appears as the fashionable artist Peter Lely originally intended.

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1942.247

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Imens i livet hos Peter Lely

Hele livet
  1. 1641–1680 · Virkested

    London

  2. 1649–1660

    Serves the Cromwells after the execution of Charles I

    The execution of the king in 1649 did not interrupt his career: Lely served Oliver Cromwell, whom he painted “warts and all”, and Richard Cromwell.

  3. 1656 · Virkested

    Amsterdam

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