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data:
  actNote:
    - authority: gnd
      intro: acti
      lang: ger
      text: Kurtisane
      uri: http://d-nb.info/gnd/4140156-6
    - authority: gnd
      intro: acti
      lang: ger
      text: Schauspielerin
      uri: http://d-nb.info/gnd/4153179-6
    - authority: gnd
      intro: acti
      lang: ger
      text: Sängerin
      uri: http://d-nb.info/gnd/4051246-0
  bioDates:
    - end: 1708
      lang: ger
      start: 1648
      text: 1648-1708. Geburtsjahr ca.
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    - code: DNBI
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Authority record
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      typeOfResource: same
    - code: WDAT
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Wikidata description set
      searchTerm: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q440398
      typeOfResource: same
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      note:
        - lang: und
          text: 'Portrait of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Moll_Davis" class="extiw" title="w:en:Moll Davis"><span title="English singer, actress and royal mistress">Moll Davis</span></a> (c.1648 - c.1708), mistress of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Charles_II_of_England" class="extiw" title="w:en:Charles II of England"><span title="British monarch from 1660 to 1685">Charles II of England</span></a><ul><li>"The present portrait derives from a three-quarter length by Sir Peter Lely which depicts her with the unguent jar of St Mary Magdalen, placing her in the guise of the reformed sinner, as well as providing a witty conceit for the display of a very decolletage. It has not precisely been established whether this mode is employed by Lely and his contemporaries for the portrayal of mistresses alone, but references to the Magdalen occur also in a portrait of Hortense Mancini (the same composition as the present painting) and in a portrait of the lady known as Margaret Hughes (Tate Gallery). The popularity of portraits of Royal mistresses attests to the status that these women enjoyed in their heyday. The occupied a position of remarkable stardom, comparable to the great sex symbols of the twentieth century. Numerous repetitions of their portraits would be commissioned from Lely and thus produced by the artists of his studio, many of whom such as John Greenhill or Nicolas de Largilliere were to become considerable masters in their own right. Sometimes a single image might be reproduced consistently many years after the first appearance of their original. This is particularly true of Lely&apos;s paintings of the most popular mistress of them all, Barbara Villiers Duchess of Cleveland. The most eagerly-sought icons in the 1670s and 1680s were still often those based on sittings of the 1660s." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.historicalportraits.com/Gallery.asp?Page=Item&amp;ItemID=298&amp;Desc=Mary-%27Moll%27-Davis-%7C-Studio-of-Sir-Peter-Lely">[1]</a></li></ul>'
      rights: 'Studio of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Peter_Lely" class="extiw" title="w:en:Peter Lely"><span title="17th-century Dutch painter">Peter Lely</span></a> / <a class="external free" href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Moll_Davis.jpg">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Moll_Davis.jpg</a> -- Public domain -- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lely - Moll Davis1.jpg'
      searchTerm: 'http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/File:Lely - Moll Davis1.jpg'
      typeOfResource: dpct
  external:
    - auth: GND
      country: DE
      date: 20130311
      id: 1032149345
  foundIn:
    - British Biographical Archive (WBIS)
  gender: a
  generalNote:
    - lang: ger
      text: Natürliche Tochter d. Earl of Berkshire; während d. 1660er Jahre Mitglied d. Duke's Theatre Company; seit 1667 Geliebte von König Charles II. u. Mutter von Mary Tudor
  geoNote:
    - intro: geon
      lang: ger
      text: Großbritannien
    - authority: iso3166
      intro: geon
      lang: und
      text: GB
  heading:
    - part:
        - entry: Davis
        - firstname: Mary
      usedBy:
        - GyFmDB
  name:
    - part:
        - entry: Davis
        - firstname: Mistress
      typeOfName: varn
    - part:
        - entry: Davis
        - firstname: Moll
      typeOfName: varn
    - part:
        - entry: Davis
        - firstname: Mrs.
      typeOfName: varn
  place:
    - id: cnl00015428
      note:
        - lang: ger
          text: Geburtsort
      part:
        - name: Westminster
      tmp: (GND)4079242-0
      typeOfPlace: brth
  typeOfEntry: 0
meta:
  history:
    - timestamp: 2016-12-13T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2018-12-16T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2019-05-03T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2019-09-26T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2024-02-08T12:00:00Z
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    - id: cnp00036403
      similarity: 1
  status: n