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Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1st Baronet (born Gottfried Kniller; 8 August 1646 – 19 October 1723) was a German-British painter. The leading portraitist in England during the late Stuart and early Georgian eras, he served as court painter to successive English and British monarchs, including Charles II of England and George I of Great Britain.
Godfrey Kneller, 1.º Baronete ( Lubeque, 8 de agosto de 1646 – Londres, 19 de outubro de 1723 ), nascido como Gottfried Kniller, foi um artista germânico. Foi o pintor da corte britânica do reinado de Carlos II até Jorge I, sendo considerado o principal pintor pictórico da Inglaterra entre o final do século XVII e início do ...
12 de mar. de 2024 · Learn about the life and work of Sir Godfrey Kneller, a German-born painter who became the leading court artist in England. Explore his portraits of monarchs, scientists, and beauties, and his role in the kit-cat portrait genre.
German-born painter who settled in England and became the leading portraitist there in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. He studied in Amsterdam under Bol, a pupil of Rembrandt, and later in Italy, before moving to England, probably in the mid-1670s.
Sir Godfrey Kneller, Baronet (born August 8, 1646, Lübeck, Germany—died October 19, 1723, London, England) was a painter who became the leading Baroque portraitist in England during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Portrait of poet Lady Mary Montagu.
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Pintor inglês de finais do séc. XVII e inícios do XVIII. Nasceu em Lubeque, em 8 de Agosto de 1646/49; morreu em Londres em 19 de Outubro de 1723. Gottfried Kniller, o seu nome alemão original, transformou-se no principal retratista a trabalhar em Inglaterra no fim do séc. XVII e começo do XVIII.
Description. Kneller was born in Lubeck, studied with Rembrandt in Amsterdam and by 1676 was working in England as a fashionable portrait painter. He painted seven British monarchs (Charles II, James II, William III, Mary II, Anne, George I and George II), though his portraits of Charles II are no longer in the collection, and in 1715 was the ...
