Sir Peter Lely Works Online
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Original works by Sir Peter Lely available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 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
Drapery and Hand, ca.1650
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
Sir Peter Lely at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
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 
Sir Peter Lely at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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")
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
Anne Hyde, Duchess of York, 1664/66
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand
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
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Portrait of Lady Penelope Spencer, 1670-80
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK
Many works online
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Norwich Museums, England
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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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
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
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
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland
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
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Smithsonian American Art Museum National 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)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms
Scroll down to monogram 587
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Fairfield Auction, Newtown, Connecticut -- Highlights of Past Sales
Portrait (for the original page, click here then scroll down)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
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
Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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California State University WorldImages Database
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
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Miscellaneous Sites:
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 
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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)
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