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Original works by Sir Peter Lely available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
2 paintings online
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
Landscape with a Church, pencil drawing, 1640-43
Sir Peter Lely at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Earl of Arlington
Miss Constance Weston
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Portrait of a Lady; probably Mary Parsons, later Mrs Draper, 1665
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Portrait of Queen Catherine of Braganza, ca.1680
Knight of the Order of the Garter, 1660s
Two Canons from a Procession of Knights of the Order of the Garter, 1660s
Trial by Fire, ca.1650
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Loiuse de Keroualle, 1671
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History 
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Sir Peter Lely at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, ca.1661-65
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch) 
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana NEW!
Anne Hyde, Duchess of York, 1664/66
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand NEW!
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
18 works by or related to the artist
Crocker Art Museum, California
James II
Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, Florida
The Countess of Radnor, Letitia Isabella Smith, ca.1647
Denver Art Museum / Berger Collection, Colorado
Miss Wharton, 1660
DePaul University Museum, Chicago
Sir Edward Hyde, 1660s
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK
4 paintings
Five College Museums Collections Database, Massachusetts
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Portrait of Lady Penelope Spencer, 1670-80
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK
National Museums and Galleries of Wales
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Norwich Museums, England
Philadelphia Museum of Art
(Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
Portrait of James Butler, 12th Earl and 1st Duke of Ormonde
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Portrait of a Lady
Sheffield Galleries & Museums, UK
Margaret Brooke, Lady Denham
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) NEW!
Sir Peter Lely at the The British Museum, London, UK
The Faringdon Collection at Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, UK
Study of Hands
The Faringdon Collection at Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, UK
3 works online
The Huntington Library, California
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
Watford Museum, England
Lady Elizabeth Percy, Wife of Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex
Portrait of an Unknown Man
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
D'Outre Manche Database of British Art in French Public Collections NEW!
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE) NEW!
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Sir Peter Lely in the Art Renewal Center
Sir Peter Lely at CGFA
Sir Peter Lely at The Athenaeum 
6 works online
Sir Peter Lely in the Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Artyzm
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site NEW!
Miscellaneous Sites:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms
Scroll down to monogram 587
Fairfield Auction, Newtown, Connecticut -- Highlights of Past Sales
Portrait (for the original page, click here then scroll down)
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
UK Government Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Sir Peter Lely 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
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