English Painters, with a Chapter on American Painters. H. J. Wilmot-Buxton
and are too wanton and too magnificent to be taken for anything but Maids of Honour."
The well-known collection of Lely's portraits at Hampton Court includes, among others, those of the Duchess of Richmond; the Countess of Rochester; Mrs. Middleton the celebrated beauty; the Countess of Northumberland; the Duchess of Cleveland, as Minerva; the Countess de Grammont, and Jane Kellaway, as Diana (misnamed Princess Mary). Mrs. Middleton, in the National Portrait Gallery, by Lely, is remarkably good. Lely fell dead before his easel, while painting a portrait of the Dowager Duchess of Somerset, November 30th, 1680.
Several English artists practised in this reign.
HENRY ANDERTON (1630—after 1665) was a portrait painter employed at Court. ISAAC FULLER (1606—1672) painted portraits and allegoric pieces. He is described as extravagant and burlesque in his tastes and manners, and his works bear the mark of this character. An epigram on a "Drunken Sot" is to this effect:—
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