biography
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Kneller, Sir Godfrey
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originally Gottfried Kniller
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pronunciation:
[kneler]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1646–1723)
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| biography:
| Portrait painter, born in Lübeck, N Germany. He studied at Amsterdam and in Italy, went to London (1676), and was appointed court painter (1680). He was knighted (1692), and in 1715 made a baronet. His best-known works are his 48 portraits of the Whig ‘Kit-Cat Club’ (1700–17, National Portrait Gallery, London), and of nine sovereigns. |
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