Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618-1680 London) and Studio

Lely painted a number of versions of Louise Renée de Penancoët de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, the famed beauty and mistress of Charles II. The present painting relates most closely to the portrait at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, though her russet gown is closer to that in her slightly earlier portrait now in the collection of the Earls of Sutherland.