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Apart from three sketchbooks containing red chalk studies from life, Charles Beale, the son of Mary Beale, is particularly known for his copies of paintings by other artists; examples are dated between 1679 and 1681 (see L. Stainton and C. White, Drawing in England from Hilliard to Hogarth, exhibition catalogue, British Museum, 1987, p.213). This pastel seems to be derived from the version of Lely's portrait in the National Portrait Gallery rather than from the original, still in family ownership, painted in 1680, and exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, Sir Peter Lely, November 1978 - March 1979, no.59, illustrated.
Roger North, 1653-1734, was the sixth and youngest son of Dudley, 4th Lord North. He trained as a lawyer but was also a distinguished historian, an amateur yachtsman and an ardent lover of music; he also studied architecture. He was Lely's executor, arranging the sale of his collection; he devoted a chapter to him in his autobiography. He also wrote a book on the lives of his brothers. He was an M.P. and attorney-general to Queen Mary of Modena; after the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688 he became a non-juror, retiring to Rougham, Norfolk.
Roger North, 1653-1734, was the sixth and youngest son of Dudley, 4th Lord North. He trained as a lawyer but was also a distinguished historian, an amateur yachtsman and an ardent lover of music; he also studied architecture. He was Lely's executor, arranging the sale of his collection; he devoted a chapter to him in his autobiography. He also wrote a book on the lives of his brothers. He was an M.P. and attorney-general to Queen Mary of Modena; after the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688 he became a non-juror, retiring to Rougham, Norfolk.