This painting shows Covent Garden market bustling with street criers, shoppers and prostitutes. Designed by Inigo Jones in the 1630s, the portrait-painter Sir Peter Lely was the first artist to move there in 1662. Two years after Lely's death in 1680, the Court portrait painter Godfrey Kneller moved into the neighbouring house where he worked until 1702.

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