Genre: Portrait
Depicted people: Louise de Keroual, Duchess of Portsmouth Edit this at Wikidata
Artist: Pierre Mignard I (1612–1695)
Created: 1682
Medium and Support: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Height: 120.7 cm (47.5 in)
Width: 95.3 cm (37.5 in)
Location: National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom
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Louise Renée de Penancoët de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth (5 September 1649 – 14 November 1734) was a mistress of Charles II of England. (Source Wikipedia)
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Mistress to Charles II
Louise was early introduced to the household of Henrietta Anne Stuart, Duchess of Orléans, sister of Charles II of Great Britain, and sister-in-law of Louis XIV of France. Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, asserts that her family threw her in the way of Louis XIV in the hope that she would become a royal mistress. In 1670, she accompanied Henrietta on a visit to Charles II at Dover. The sudden death of Henrietta left her unprovided for, but Charles II appointed her as a lady-in-waiting to his own queen, Catherine of Braganza. Unlike her predecessor Barbara Palmer, who had openly insulted the Queen, Louise was careful to show her every respect, and relations between the two women were never less than amicable.
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