Italian Rococo Era Painter, ca.1683-1754  Related Paintings of PIAZZETTA, Giovanni Battista :. | The Soothsayer sg | The Virgin Appearing to St Philip Neri a | Rebecca am Brunnen | The Assumption of the Virgin (mk05) | Maryrdom of St.James the Great |
Related Artists:
Charles Muller
[French Academic Painter, 1815-1892
Michel Gobin
painted Junger Mann mit Pfeife in 1681
KNELLER, Sir Godfrey
German-born English Baroque Era Painter, 1646-1723 English painter and draughtsman of German birth. He was the leading portrait painter in England during the late 17th century and the early 18th, and, as such, the chief recorder of court society for almost 40 years. He popularized the kit-cat format for portraits and was also the founding governor in 1711 of the first proper academy of art in England. His older brother Johann [John] Zachary Kneller (b L?beck, 1642; d London, 1702), with whom he was close, was also a painter; his works include watercolour miniatures and still-lifes,