William Windham I (1647 - 1689)

Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680). Oil painting on canvas, William Windham I (1647-1689) by Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680), circa 1665/69. A three-quarter-length portrait of a man standing portrait turned to his right, wearing a full periwig with chestnut brown coat with white sleeves, dark brown ground. Probably painted by Lely before the sitter's marriage in 1669, and given by his widow, along with her own portrait, to their son Ashe, on his marriage in 1709. A replica was in the collection of Thomas de Grey, Lord Walsingham, Merton Hall and wrongly identified as William de Grey (d.1687), the father of Thomas de Grey, who married William Windham I's second daughter, Elizabeth, and lived at Merton. Felbrigg, Norfolk (Accredited Museum)