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File:Portrait, William Byrd II, Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg

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Artist
Godfrey Kneller  (1646–1723)  wikidata:Q65317 q:en:Godfrey Kneller
 
Godfrey Kneller
Alternative names
Gottfried Kneller, Birth name: Gottfried Kniller
Description German painter, drawer, engraver and miniaturist
Date of birth/death 8 August 1646 Edit this at Wikidata 19 October 1723 / 27 October 1723 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Lübeck Edit this at Wikidata London Edit this at Wikidata
Work period between circa 1660 and circa 1723
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1660-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1723-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location
Leiden (circa 1660–1665), Rome, Venice (1672–1675), Nuremberg, Hamburg (1674–1676), London (1676–1723), France (1684–1685)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q65317
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: William Byrd II gestures with his right hand toward a distant scene in this three-quarter-length oil portrait made in London between 1700 and 1704. This painting was executed by Sir Godfrey Kneller, the royal court's official painter and the most important portraitist in England in the the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Byrd hung this canvas at Westover, his family's plantation house on the James River in Charles City County. Over the years, he exhibited more than thirty portraits of family members and friends in the manor house, an extraordinary display in that time and place.
Date circa 1700-1704
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
institution QS:P195,Q841700
Source/Photographer Encyclopedia Virginia. Courtesy of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

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