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Queen Mary II

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Queen Mary II

by Sir Peter Lely
oil on canvas, circa 1677
49 3/8 in. x 40 in. (1254 mm x 1019 mm)
Purchased, 1993
Primary Collection
NPG 6214

On display in Room 7 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery

Sitterback to top

  • Queen Mary II (1662-1694), Reigned with William III 1689-94. Sitter associated with 97 portraits.

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  • Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680), Portrait painter. Artist or producer associated with 843 portraits, Sitter in 19 portraits.

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This portrait shows Mary at the age of fifteen, at the time of her marriage to William of Orange.

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Current affairs

Speech by George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, arguing that the prolonged prorogation of the Cavalier Parliament rendered it dissolved, sends him and three others, including Philip Wharton, Baron Wharton, to the Tower.
Stadtholder, Prince William of Orange, marries Mary, daughter of James, Duke of York and Anne Hyde.

Art and science

The Natural History of Oxfordshire, (1676) by naturalist and antiquary Robert Plot, secures his election to the Royal Society in December and two years later, appointment as curator of objects to the objects bequeathed to Oxford University by Elias Ashmole.

International

Despite his dismissal from court in 1669, royalist soldier and statesman, James Butler, Duke of Ormond, is reappointed lord lieutenant of Ireland.

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Sierra Shreves

04 May 2022, 06:09

Mary II wears a pearl strand necklace. Her silk scarf is likely stitched into her dress just as the pearls on the gown attached. The dress is made of orange silk satin. Her hair is in a style known as hurly burly and she has curls framing her face.