George II (1683-1760)
Artist: David Morier (Swiss-born British, (1705? – c. 1770)
Date: ca. 1745
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Royal Collection Trust / Windsor Castle, London, United Kingdom
George II of Great Britain
George II (George Augustus; 1683 - 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death in 1760.
Born and brought up in northern Germany, George is the most recent British monarch born outside Great Britain. The Act of Settlement 1701 and the Acts of Union 1707 positioned his grandmother Sophia of Hanover and her Protestant descendants to inherit the British throne. George married Princess Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach, with whom he had eight children.
