2-756-432 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Concert', c1650, (1944). Self portrait of the Dutch artist Peter Lely (1618-1680), long thought to be of a family group. Although the male figure playing the viola da gamba is almost certainly Lely, it is less clear who the other sitters are. The two women on the right, one topless, are wearing expensive-looking jewellery. Painting in The Courtauld Gallery, London. From "British Portrait Painters", by John Russell. [Collins, London, 1944]