Saturday, August 22, 2026

The Diarist and his Wife Elizabeth (1660s)


Portrait of Elizabeth and Samuel Pepys at home in the 1660s - in oils by GPT-5.6. Elizabeth's likeness from the National Portrait Gallery engraving.

Sadly, Elizabeth died of typhoid fever in 1669, aged 29 — Pepys was 36 — and he was devastated. Despite living to 70, he never married again. They had been married for fourteen years.


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