Buyer tracks down a Lely lookalike
This portrait that emerged at the March 18 auction at Halls (20% buyer’s premium) of Shrewsbury appears to be closely based on Sir Peter Lely’s (1618-80) portrait of Mary II as a young girl that now resides in the Royal Collection.
Lely painted Princess Mary, as she was then, as Diana, the goddess of the hunting and the moon. The …