Many of these pictures, however, are certainly not real portraits.
Even in the middle of the seventeenth century in England nakedness was not prohibited in public, for Pepys tells us that on July 29, 1667, a Quaker came into Westminster Hall, crying, "Repent! Repent!" being in a state of nakedness, except that he was "very civilly tied about the privities to avoid scandal." (This was doubtless Solomon Eccles, who was accustomed to go about in this costume, both before and after the Restoration.

He had been a distinguished musician, and, though eccentric, was apparently not insane.) In a chapter, "De la Nudite," and in the appendices of his book, _De l'Amour_ (vol.i, p.

221), Senancour gives instances of the occasional practice of nudity in Europe, and adds some interesting remarks of his own; so, also, Dulaure (_Des Divinites Generatrices_, Ch.

XV).

It would appear, as a rule, that though complete nudity was allowed in other respects, it was usual to cover the sexual parts.
The movement of revolt against nakedness never became completely victorious until the nineteenth century.