Sir Godfrey Kneller

(1646-1723)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646-1723 NRA: Kneller Sir Godfrey (1646-1723) Knight Painter DNB: Kneller, Sir Godfrey [formerly Gottfried Kniller], baronet (1646-1723), history and portrait painter LBT ID: GoKnell1723 VIAF ID: 74127041 LOC ID: n82103048	B/BAP: 1646-08-08 DIED: 1723-10-26
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Portrait painter who emigrated to England in 1675; his portraits of the members of the Whig Kit-Kat Club were much admired.
REFERENCES TO Sir Godfrey Kneller: Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 20 December 1831 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 16 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 7: Quarterly Review Verse 2: p. 113b p. 113b Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R. Plumer Ward III Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 5 Found 1: ¶ 17 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVIII Found 1: ¶ 3