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Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723)
Aliases: Godfrey Kneller; Gottfried Kneller; Godfrey Kniller; Gottfried Kniller
Professions: Portrait painter; Historical-scenes painter; Painter; copperplate engraver; Miniature painter
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SIR GODFREY KNELLER, BT. 1646 - 1723 PORTRAIT OF LADY SOPHIA OSBORNE, BARONESS LEMPSTER
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SIR GODFREY KNELLER, BT. 1646 - 1723 PORTRAIT OF ANNABELLA DYVES, LADY HOWARD
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SIR GODFREY KNELLER, BT. 1646 - 1723 PORTRAIT OF THE HON. LUCY LOFTUS, MARCHIONESS OF WHARTON
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SIR GODFREY KNELLER, BT. 1646 - 1723 PORTRAIT OF SIR WILLIAM FERMOR, 1ST BARON LEMPSTER
Sir Godfrey Kneller Biography
(b lübeck, ?8 aug 1646; d london, 19 oct 1723). english painter and draughtsman of german birth. he was the leading portrait painter in england during the late 17th century and the early 18th, and, as such, the chief recorder of court society for almost 40 years. he popularized the kit-cat format for portraits and was also the founding governor in 1711 of the first proper academy of art in england. his older brother johann [john] zachary kneller (b lübeck, 1642; d london, 1702), with whom he was close, was also a painter; his works include watercolour miniatures and still-lifes, as well as copies of his more famous brother’s works.
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SIR GODFREY KNELLER, BT. 1646 - 1723 A GROUP PORTRAIT OF THOMAS HESKETH (1690-1735), WITH HIS
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SIR GODFREY KNELLER, BT. 1646 - 1723
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Portrait of Isabella, Duchess of Grafton ( c. 1688-1723) and her son Charles Fitzroy, later 2nd Duke of Grafton (1683-1757), full-length, a landscape beyond
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* SIR GODFREY KNELLER LÜBECK 1646 - 1723 LONDON
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Portrait of Elizabeth, Duchess of Dorset, full-length, in a white dress with a blue wrap, leaning on a stone pedestal with her left hand, beside a draped curtain
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STUDIO OF SIR GODFREY KNELLER, BT. 1646 - 1723 PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM WHARTON (D.1687)
