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See also:LELY, See also:SIR See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
PETER (1617—168o) See also:English painter, was See also:born at See also:Soest, See also:Westphalia, in 1617. His See also:father, a military See also:captain and a native of See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, was originally called See also:van der Vaes; the See also:nickname of Le Lys or Lely, by which he was generally known, was adopted by his son as a surname. After studying for two years under Peter de Grebber, an artist of some See also:note at See also:Haarlem, Lely, induced by the patronage of See also:Charles I. for the See also:fine arts, removed to See also:England in 1641. There he at first painted See also:historical subjects and landscape; he soon became so eminent in his profession as to be employed by Charles to paint his portrait shortly after the See also:death of Vandyck. He afterwards portrayed See also:Cromwell. At the Restoration his See also:genius and agreeable See also:manners won the favour of Charles II., who made him his See also:state-painter, and afterwards knighted him. He formed a famous collection, the best of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, containing drawings, prints and paintings by the best masters; it sold by See also:auction for no less than £26,000. His See also:great example, however, was Vandyck, whom, in some of his most successful pieces, he almost rivals. Lely's paintings are carefully finished, warm and clear in colouring, and animated in See also:design. The graceful posture of the heads, the delicate rounding of the hands, and the broad folds of the draperies are admired in many of his portraits. The eyes of the ladies are drowsy with languid sentiment, and See also:allegory of a See also:commonplace sort is too freely introduced. His most famous See also:work is a collection of portraits of the ladies of the See also:court of Charles II., known as " the Beauties," formerly at See also:Windsor See also:Castle, and now preserved at See also:Hampton Court See also:Palace. Of his few historical pictures, the best is " Susannah and the Elders," at Burleigh See also:House. His " See also:Jupiter and See also:Europa," in the See also:duke of See also:Devonshire's collection, is also worthy of note. Lely was nearly as famous for See also:crayon work as for oil-See also:painting. Towards the See also:close of his See also:life he often retired to an See also:estate which he had bought at See also:Kew. He died of See also:apoplexy in the Piazza, Covent See also:Garden, See also:London, and was buried in Covent Garden See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, where a See also:monument was afterwards erected to his memory. See also:Pepys characterized Lely as " a mighty proud See also:man and full of state." The painter married an English See also:lady of See also:family, and See also:left a son and daughter, who died See also:young. His only disciples were J. Greenhill and J. Buckshorn; he did not, however, allow them to obtain an insight into his See also:special modes of work. (W. M. R.)
LE See also:MACON (or LE See also:MAssoN), See also:ROBERT (c. 1365—1443), See also:chancellor of See also:France, was born at See also:Chateau du Loir, See also:Sarthe. He was ennobled in See also:March 1401, and became six years later a councillor of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis II., duke of See also:Anjou and See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Sicily. A See also:partisan of the house of See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans, he was appointed chancellor to See also:Isabella of See also:Bavaria on the 29th of See also:January 1414, on the loth of See also:July See also:commissary of the See also:mint, and in See also:June 1416 chancellor to the See also:count of Ponthieu, afterwards Charles VII. On the 16th of See also:August he bought the See also:barony of Treves in Anjou, and henceforward See also:bore the See also:title of seigneur of Treves. When See also:Paris was surprised by the Burgundians on the See also:night of the 29th of May 1418 he assisted Tanguy Duchatel in saving the dauphin. His devotion to the cause of the latter having brought down on him the wrath of See also:John the Fearless, duke of See also:Burgundy, he was excluded from the See also:political See also:amnesty known as the See also:peace of See also:Saint Maur See also:des Fosses, though he retained his seat on the king's See also:council. He was by the dauphin's See also:side when John the Fearless was murdered at the See also:bridge of See also:Montereau on the loth of See also:September 1419. He resigned the See also:seals at the beginning of 1422; but he continued to exercise great See also:influence, and in 1426 he effected a reconciliation between the king and the duke of See also:Brittany. Having been captured by See also:Jean de Langeac, See also:seneschal of See also:Auvergne, in August of the same See also:year, he was shut up for three months in the chateau of Usson. When set at See also:liberty he returned to court, where he staunchly supported See also:Joan of Arc against all the cabals that menaced her. It was he who signed the patent of See also:nobility for the Arc family in See also:December 1429. In 1130 he was once more entrusted with an See also:embassy to Brittany.. Having retired from political life in 1436, he died on the 28th of January 1443, and was interred at Treves, where his See also:epitaph may still be seen.
See C. Bourcier, " Robert le Masson," in the Revue historique de t'Anjou (1873); and the Nouvelle biographie generale, vol. See also:xxx. (J. V.*)
LE MAIRE DE BELGES, JEAN (1473-c. 1525), See also:French poet and historiographer, was born at See also:Bavai in Hainault. He was a See also:nephew of Jean See also:Molinet, and spent some time with him at See also:Valenciennes, where the See also:elder writer held a See also:kind of See also:academy of See also:poetry. Le Maire in his first poems calls himself a See also:disciple of Molinet. In certain aspects he does belong to the school of the grands rhetoriqueurs, but his great merit as a poet is that he emancipated himself from the affectations and puerilities of his masters. This See also:independence of the Flemish school he owed in See also:part perhaps to his studies at the university of Paris and to the study of the See also:Italian poets at See also:Lyons, a centre of the French renascence. In 1503 he was attached to the court of See also:Margaret of See also:Austria, duchess of See also:Savoy, afterwards See also:regent of the See also:Netherlands. For this princess he undertook more than one See also:mission to See also:Rome; he became her librarian and a See also:canon of Valenciennes. To her were addressed his most See also:original poems, Epistres de l'amand verd, the amant verb being a See also:green See also:parrot belonging to his patroness. Le Maire gradually became more French in his sympathies, eventually entering the service of See also:Anne of Brittany. His See also:prose Illustrations des Gaules et singularitez de Troye (1510-1512), largely adapted from See also:Benoit de Sainte More, connects the Burgundian royal house with See also:Hector. Le Maire probably died before 1525. See also:Etienne See also:Pasquier, See also:Ronsard and Du Bellay all acknowledged their indebtedness to him. In his love for antiquity, his sense of See also:rhythm, and even the peculiarities of his vocabulary he anticipated the Pleiade.
His See also:works were edited in 1882—1885 by J. Stecher, who wrote the See also:article on him in the Biographic nationale de Belgique.
End of Article: LELY, SIR PETER (1617—168o)
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