Godfrey Kneller

Details

Instance of

human

Born

8 August 1646

Died

19 October 1723, 27 October 1723

Place of birth

Lübeck

Place of death

London

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Godfrey, Gottfried

Family name

Kneller, Kniller

Father

Zacharias Kniller

Child

Agnes Voss (or Catherine, later Huckle)

Sibling

Andreas Kneller, Johann Zacharias Kneller

Movement

realism

Genre

portrait

Field of work

portrait

Occupation

painter, draftsperson, engraver, miniature painter

Position held

court painter

Citizenship

Germany, Kingdom of Great Britain

Awards

Knight Bachelor, baronet

artist files at

Frick Art Research Library

birth name

Gottfried Kniller

depicted by

Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt, Self portrait of Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723)

described by source

The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters, Lives of Flemish, German, and Dutch painters, The Lives of Dutch painters and paintresses, Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Deutsche Biographie, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Encyclopedia Americana

floruit

1677, 1720

has works in the collection

Minneapolis Institute of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Tate, National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Art, Nationalmuseum, National Gallery of Canada, Städel Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust

languages spoken, written or signed

German

name in native language

Gottfried Kneller

noble title

baronet

notable work

Portrait of Cornelis de Bruyn, Draughtsman and Traveler, Portrait of the first Earl of Albemarle, An old scholar

place of burial

St Mary's Church, Twickenham

student

Jacob van der Roer van Dordrecht, Friedrich Wilhelm Weidemann, John Vanderbank

student of

Rembrandt, Ferdinand Bol

Connected on Wikidata

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