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Description: | Sir Peter Lely portrayed a number of his female sitters in the guise of St Agnes. Despite her presentation as a virgin martyr, the sitter here is said to be the actress and royal mistress Mary 'Moll' Davis, whom Pepys admired for her 'very fine legs'. John Downes recalled that in The Rivals Mary 'perform'd ...so Charmingly, that...it Rais'd her from her Bed on the Cold Ground [the title of one of her songs]...to a Bed Royal'. Davis rivalled Nell Gwyn in the affections of Charles II and in 1673 bore him a daughter, Lady Mary Tudor. | Subjects: | Mary 'Moll'); religion (St Agnes) portrait (lady; Davis | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Lely, Peter (Dutch painter and draftsman, 1618-1680, active in England) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8477... | Go to resource |
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