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unusual facts about Sir Godfrey Kneller



Eversfield baronets

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.

German organ schools

Andreas Kneller (studied either under Tunder or his uncle Matthias Weckmann; brother to Sir Godfrey Kneller)

Lennoxlove House

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.


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