Lewis Melville The Windsor Beauties BOOK

Lewis Melville The Windsor Beauties BOOK

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Printed in Great Britian at the Mayflower Press, Plymouth :
  • Illustrator:Aubrey Hammond (coloured Frontispiece by)/11 Full-Page Illustrations

  • The Court of Charles II; British Royal Court Life; English Royalty, British History, British Royalty, British Ladies in Waiting.\"The Duchess of York wished to have the portraits of the most beautiful women at Court,\" Anthony Hamilton wrote in the Memoirs of Count Grammont. \"Lely painted them, and employed all his art in the execution. He could not have had more alluring sitters. Every portrait is a masterpiece.\"

    The original set of \"Beauties\" painted by Lely were, as we find from James II\'s catalogue, eleven in number, their names being Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland (née Villiers); Frances, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (née Stuart); Mrs. Jane Myddleton (née Needham); Elizabeth, Countess of Northumberland (née Wriothesley); Elizabeth, Countess of Falmouth (née Bagot); Elizabeth, Lady Denham (née Brooke); Frances, Lady Whitmore (née Brooke); Henrietta, Countess of Rochester (née Boyle); Elizabeth, Countess de Grammont (née Hamilton); and Madame d\'Orleans.


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