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Sir Godfrey Kneller
Dorothy Mason
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Belton House, Lincolnshire
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
John, First Duke of Marlborough
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Blenheim Palace, Woodstock
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
Sir Isaac Newton
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1702
National Portrait Gallery, London
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
John Locke
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1697
The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
Grinling Gibbons
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The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
Margaret Cecil Countess of Ranelagh (mk25
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c 1690
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
Portrait of the Artist
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c.1670
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105x113.7cm
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
Grinling Gibbons
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Oil on canvas
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
John Locke
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mk65
1697
Oil on canvas
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
Sir Christopher wren
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
Edward and Lady Mary Howard
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
James Brydges
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Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Expression error: Missing operand for *147.3 x 179.7 cm
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
Portrait of King George I
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"Portrait of King George I," by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Oil on canvas. This portrait was the first gift of art to Yale University, and was donated by the English merchant Elihu Yale, for whom Yale College was named. Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
Portrait of Charles Townshend
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Date ca. 1715-1720
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 125.7 ?? 101 cm (49.5 ?? 39.8 in)
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
Portrait of Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg-Ansbach
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1716(1716)
Oil on canvas
97.5 ?? 61.9 cm (38.4 ?? 24.4 in)
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
Self-portrait
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1685(1685)
Oil on canvas
75.6 x 62.9 cm (29.8 x 24.8 in)
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
James Brydges (later 1st Duke of Chandos) and his family
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1713
Oil on canvas
147.3 x 179.7 cm (58 x 70.7 in)
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
Portrait of Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset
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1703(1703)
Oil on canvas
91.4 x 71.1 cm (36 x 28 in)
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
Portrait of Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg-Ansbach
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1716(1716)
Oil on canvas
97.5 x 61.9 cm (38.4 x 24.4 in)
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
Queen Anne
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1690(1690)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 233.7 x 142.9 cm (92 x 56.3 in)
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
Portrait of Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle
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ca. 1700-1712(1700-1712)
Oil on canvas
90.8 x 71.1 cm (35.7 x 28 in)
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
Queen Anne
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ca. 1690(1690)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 233.7 x 142.9 cm (92 x 56.3 in)
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
Portrait of William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth
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17th century
Oil on canvas
125 x 101 cm (49.2 x 39.8 in)
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
Portrait of Elizabeth Colyear, Duchess of Dorset (1687-1768); wife of the 1st Duke of Dorset
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18th century
Oil on canvas
229.2 x 139.7 cm (90.2 x 55 in)
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
Portrait of Charles Townshend
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ca. 1715-1720
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 125.7 x 101 cm (49.5 x 39.8 in)
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
Portrait of King William III of England (1650-1702) in State Robes
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
Portrait of Charles Seymour
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1703(1703)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 91.4 x 71.1 cm (36 x 28 in)
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694-1753) and his sister Lady Jane Boyle
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Date ca. 1700(1700)
Medium Oil on panel
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
Portrait of Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg
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1716(1716)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 97.5 x 61.9 cm (38.4 x 24.4 in)
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
Self portrait
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1685(1685)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 75.6 x 62.9 cm (29.8 x 24.8 in)
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
1649-1723
Dutch (Resident in UK)
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was the leading portrait painter in England during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and was court painter to British monarchs from Charles II to George I. His major works include The Chinese Convert (1687); a series of four portraits of Isaac Newton painted at various junctures of the latter's life; a series of ten reigning European monarchs, including King Louis XIV of France; over 40 "Kit-cat portraits" of members of the Kit-Cat Club; and ten "beauties" of the court of William III, to match a similar series of ten beauties of the court of Charles II painted by his predecessor as court painter, Sir Peter Lely.
Sir John Vanbrugh in Godfrey Kneller's Kit-cat portrait, considered one of Kneller's finest portraits.Kneller was born Gottfried Kniller in L??beck, Germany. Kneller studied in Leiden, but became a pupil of Ferdinand Bol and Rembrandt in Amsterdam. He worked in Rome and Venice in the early 1670s, painting historical subjects and portraits, and later moved to Hamburg. He came to England in 1674, at the invitation of the Duke of Monmouth, accompanied by his brother, John Zacharias Kneller, who was an ornamental painter. He was introduced to, and painted a portrait of, Charles II. In England, Kneller concentrated almost entirely on portraiture. He founded a studio which churned out portraits on an almost industrial scale, relying on a brief sketch of the face with details added to a formulaic model, aided by the fashion for gentlemen to wear full wigs. His portraits set a pattern that was followed until William Hogarth and Joshua Reynolds.
Nevertheless, he established himself as a leading portrait artist in England. When Sir Peter Lely died in 1680, Kneller was appointed Principal Painter to the Crown by Charles II. In the 1690s, Kneller painted the Hampton Court Beauties depicting the most glamorous ladies-in-waiting of the Royal Court for which he received his knighthood from William III. He produced a series of "Kit-cat" portraits of 48 leading politicians and men of letters, members of the Kit-Cat Club. Created a baronet by King George I, he was also head of the Kneller Academy of Painting and Drawing 1711-1716 in Great Queen Street, London. His paintings were praised by Whig luminaries such as John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Alexander Pope.
Kneller died of fever in 1723 and his remains were interred in Twickenham Church (he was a churchwarden there when the 14th century nave collapsed in 1713 and was involved in the plans for its reconstruction). The site of the house he built in 1709 in Whitton near Twickenham is now occupied by the mid-19th century Kneller Hall, home of the Royal Military School of Music
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