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Godfrey Kneller

1646 - 1723

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Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1st Baronet (born Gottfried Kniller; 8 August 1646 – 19 October 1723) was a German-born British painter. 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. Kneller also painted scientists such as Isaac Newton, foreign monarchs such as Louis XIV of France and visitors to England such as Michael Shen Fu-Tsung. A pioneer of the kit-cat portrait, he was also commissioned by William III of England to paint eight "Hampton Court Beauties" to match a similar series of paintings of Charles II's "Windsor Beauties" that had been painted by Kneller's predecessor as court painter, Peter Lely. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Godfrey Kneller is the 432nd most popular painter (up from 468th in 2019), the 1,196th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,269th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular German Painter.

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Among painters, Godfrey Kneller ranks 432 out of 2,023. Before him are Pieter Lastman, André Masson, Carlo Levi, Yves Tanguy, John Bauer, and Pierre-Joseph Redouté. After him are Gino Severini, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, James Tissot, Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Hannah Höch, and Orcagna.

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Among people born in 1646, Godfrey Kneller ranks 9. Before him are Ismail Ibn Sharif, John Flamsteed, Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Antoine Galland, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, and Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. After him are Maria Francisca of Savoy, Hortense Mancini, Charles Plumier, Alexandre Exquemelin, Paul Hermann, and Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. Among people deceased in 1723, Godfrey Kneller ranks 7. Before him are Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Dimitrie Cantemir, Christopher Wren, and Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. After him are Anne Christine of Sulzbach, Princess of Piedmont, Anne Henriette of Bavaria, Zanabazar, Guillaume Dubois, Antonio Maria Valsalva, and Praskovia Saltykova.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Godfrey Kneller ranks 1,196 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark (1647), Augustus, Elector of Saxony (1526), Conrad II of Italy (1074), Emil Erlenmeyer (1825), Princess Marianne of the Netherlands (1810), and Severinus of Noricum (410). After him are Josef Harpe (1887), Carsten Niebuhr (1733), Manuel Neuer (1986), Engelbert Kaempfer (1651), Johann Philipp Reis (1834), and Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf (1757).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Godfrey Kneller ranks 43. Before him are Konrad Witz (1400), Georg Baselitz (1938), Oskar Schlemmer (1888), Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789), Michael Wolgemut (1434), and Adam Elsheimer (1578). After him are Hannah Höch (1889), Heinz Linge (1913), Max Klinger (1857), Sigmar Polke (1941), Lucian Freud (1922), and Heinrich Füger (1751).

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