Godfrey Kneller is recorded in the Getty Union List of Artist Names with the biographical note: English painter, 1646-1723. The Getty record lists his roles as painter, portraitist, court painter, miniaturist, engraver, draftsman and watercolorist, and gives his culture or style terms as English, British and German. It carries 60 name forms, among them Gottfried Kneller, Sir Godfrey Kneller and Kniller, Gottfried, and the identifier 500015875. English Wikipedia notes that he painted scientists such as Isaac Newton, and in this atlas he is linked as the maker of the 1689 portrait of Newton.
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Source Portrait of Isaac Newton, File Record (Wikimedia Commons, after Kneller, 1689)Summarytier 3Quote, Summary
Godfrey Kneller : Portrait of Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
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Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1st Baronet (British English: NEL-ə; born Gottfried Kniller; 8 August 1646 – 19 October 1723) was a British painter of German origin.
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Kneller was born Gottfried Kniller in the Free City of Lübeck, the son of Zacharias Kniller, a portrait painter.
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The leading portraitist in England during the late Stuart and early Georgian eras, he served as court painter to successive English and British monarchs, including Charles II of England and George I of Great Britain.
Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Godfrey Kneller (English painter, 1646-1723)
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