page_title: Windsor Beauties
section_title: List of "Beauties"
hierarchical_section_title: Windsor Beauties / List of "Beauties"
caption_attribution_description: Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Gramont
context_page_description: The Windsor Beauties are a famous collection of paintings by Sir Peter Lely, painted in the early to mid-1660s, that depict ladies of the court of King Charles II, some of whom were his mistresses. The name stems from the original location of the collection, which was housed at Windsor Castle. They can now be seen at Hampton Court Palace.
context_section_description: The original set of "Beauties" painted by Lely include, depending on the source:
  Frances, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (née Stuart; 1648-1702)
  Elizabeth, Countess de Grammont (née Hamilton; 1641-1708)
  Jane Myddelton (née Needham; 1646–92)
  Margaret, Lady Denham (née Brooke; c. 1647-67) (named Elizabeth in the cited printed sources [and in 18th century prints] but  Margaret at the Royal Collection)
  Frances, Lady Whitmore (née Brooke; died 1690)
  Mary, Countess of Falmouth and Dorset (née Bagot; 1645–79) (named Elizabeth in the cited printed sources [and in 18th century prints] but Mary at the Royal Collection)
  Henrietta, Countess of Rochester (née Boyle; 1646-1687)
  Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland (née Villiers; c. 1641-1709)
  Anne, Countess of Sunderland (née Digby; c. 1646-1715)
  Elizabeth, Countess of Northumberland (née Wriothesley; 1646-1690)
  Emilia Butler, Countess of Ossory  (Melville omits this name, citing Ernest Law that the portrait previously identified by this name is actually Lady Falmouth.)
  Madame Henrietta, Duchess of Orléans
  The portraits for the first 10 names are included at the Royal Collection website as "probably commissioned by Anne Hyde, Duchess of York."
  The Duchess of York does not figure in the above list often; but since she was largely responsible for the collection (and choosing the sitters), she was also painted as part of the series.  Possibly a little flattery from Lely was responsible for this.
caption: Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Gramont, c. 1663
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