Early Stuart Portraits Catalogue

Sir Paul Rycaut (1628-1700), Diplomat and writer

1679-80
Painting by Peter Lely, see NPG 1874.

1691
Painting by Johann Rundt, three-quarter length standing, gloved left hand on hip, right by side, signed and dated. Royal Society, London, given by Dr. A. P. Pullan 1934 (N. H. Robinson, The Royal Society Catalogue of Portraits, 1980, pp 262-63 illus.).

Doubtful Portrait
Painting by Lely c.1660, a youngish man three-quarter length seated, wearing black with broad white bands, left hand on arm of carved chair. Easton Neston (G. Vertue, Notebooks, Wal. Soc., XXIV, 1936, p 38, citing a PL monogram).


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