The house contains portraits by Lawrence, Gainsborough, Romney, Lely, Reynolds, Hoppner, Kneller and many others, and a set of giant marble columns carrying busts, which are genuine antiques, collected in Italy by Lord Apsley, the son of the third earl, at the time of the Congress of Vienna in 1814.
It may have been painted by more than one person: someone who specialised in clothing, another in drapes, and so on, with perhaps the great court painter Sir Godfrey Kneller painting the heads, for it was the portraits that gave the sitters their identity, everything else is rather formulaic.
Andreas Kneller (studied either under Tunder or his uncle Matthias Weckmann; brother to Sir Godfrey Kneller)
Sir Godfrey Kneller, German-born English portrait painter, brother of Andreas
In 1718, Chéron and John Vanderbank split from Godfrey Kneller's Great Queen Street Academy (where they were both teaching) to form their own St. Martin's Lane Academy.
He subscribed in 1711 to the Great Queen Street Academy begun under Sir Godfrey Kneller, but seceded from it in 1720 to the St Martin's Lane Academy begun by Louis Chéron and John Vanderbank.
Laguerre was also a director of Godfrey Kneller's London Academy of Drawing and Painting, founded in the autumn of 1711.
Arthur Godfrey | Godfrey Kneller | Charles Godfrey Leland | Godfrey of Bouillon | Godfrey | John Godfrey | Sir Godfrey Copley, 2nd Baronet | My Man Godfrey | Godfrey Reggio | Godfrey Ho | Fred Godfrey | Kneller Hall | Robert John Godfrey | Private Charles Godfrey | Kneller | Godfrey Stillman Rockefeller | Godfrey of Brabant | Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar | Godfrey, Illinois | Godfrey Bloom | Sir Godfrey Copley | Scott Kneller | Peter Godfrey-Smith | Paul Godfrey | Godfrey Meynell | Godfrey McHugh | Godfrey Isaacs | Godfrey Hewitt | Godfrey Binaisa | Edward Settle Godfrey |
Having been brought to London from his home of Flanders by his father in 1704, the younger Seeman's painting career as we know it began with a group portrait of the Bisset family in the style of the portraitist Godfrey Kneller, now held at Castle Forbes in Grampian, Scotland, and dated by an inscription 1708.
A discussion play, the issues of nature, power and leadership are debated between King Charles II ('Mr Rowley'), Isaac Newton, George Fox and the artist Godfrey Kneller, with interventions by three of the king's mistresses (Barbara Villiers, 1st Duchess of Cleveland; Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth; and Nell Gwynn) and his queen, Catherine of Braganza.
Other scenes he painted include the Siege of Derry (1689), and the horse and battle portion of Godfrey Kneller's famous portrait of the Duke of Schomberg, who had been killed at the Battle of the Boyne.
Lennoxlove is home to one of Scotland's most important collections of portraits, including works by Anthony van Dyck, Canaletto, Sir Peter Lely, Sir Godfrey Kneller, Sir Henry Raeburn, and others.
Until 1904, there were many more paintings at Raynham, including several fine family portraits by Kneller and Reynolds.