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Subscription or UK public library membership required. Kneller's house at Whitton still exists, though much altered; it is known as Kneller Hall, and is now used as the School of Military Music. They first visited Rome, where Godfrey studied from the antique and the paintings of Raphael and the Carracci, and worked in the studios of Carlo Maratti and Bernini.

Page Source Discussion. Succeeded by William Kent. Toggle the table of contents. Accessed 7 January Kneller painted so many portraits of the king, of his queen, Mary Beatrix, and of other members of the family, that he subsequently claimed to be a competent authority on the question of Prince James Edward's legitimacy, because of his exceptionally close acquaintance with the features and peculiarities of the royal family.

Retrieved 25 June — via Google Books. Two portraits remain in the town library, one of an aged student, painted by Godfrey Kniller in , and a companion portrait of a youthful scholar, by Godfrey's elder brother, John Zacharias, in the same year.

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He died in London in , and was buried in St. William III , Leading portrait painter of England. Sign in Register. Oxford University Press. The portrait was restored and cleaned in Remember me uncheck on a public computer. Douglas Pope alludes to his methods of dispensing justice in the lines, I think Sir Godfrey should decide the suit, Who sent the thief that stole the cash away, And punished him that put it in his way.

Link copied to clipboard! Character [ edit ]. Contents move to sidebar hide. Earl of Marlborough , c. In , when the first academy of painting was founded in Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Kneller was unanimously elected the first governor, and continued so for some years. Support us to keep it free. Earl of Peterborough , In , he received, in the presence of the king, an honorary Doctorate of Law from the University of Oxford.

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Knell, William Adolphus. Notes [ edit ]. Gottfried was destined for a military life, and was sent to Leyden to study mathematics and fortification.