Lelystad, town in the Netherlands, named after Cornelis Lely
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Cornelis Lely, Dutch engineer and statesman, who designed and realised by law the Zuiderzee Works that made the Zuiderzee into the lake IJsselmeer
He published The Queen's Pictures in 1977, a general account of the Royal Collection, and wrote the catalogues for exhibitions of works at the National Portrait Gallery by Sir Peter Lely in 1978 and "Van Dyck in England" in 1982, selecting himself the 65 paintings and 22 drawings for the latter exhibition.
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He died instantly of a heart attack whilst walking across St James's Square in London having come from an appointment at Christie's to look at a picture by Lely.
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The house contains portraits by Lawrence, Gainsborough, Romney, Lely, Reynolds, Hoppner, Kneller and many others, and a set of giant marble columns carrying busts, which are genuine antiques, collected in Italy by Lord Apsley, the son of the third earl, at the time of the Congress of Vienna in 1814.
Art historian Ellis Waterhouse assessed the series and declared that 'In such works Lely's splendid prose borders upon the poetry of the great masters'.