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Portrait of John Ogilby
By Sir Peter Lely
Oil on canvas
750 x 610 mm
Lane Poole no. 146

John Ogilby (1600–76), one-time dance master, director of plays, translator, poet, and, most significantly, bookseller and publisher. As a publisher Ogilby specialized in illustrated works, including the handsome folio Bible of 1660. Catalogue no.2
full size (418 K)


Ogilby is represented by catalogue no. 1.


R. Lane Poole, Catalogue of Portraits in the Possession of the University, Colleges, City, and County of Oxford (3 vols, Oxford, 1912–26), vol.1, p. 59.



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