#godfrey kneller

[history-of-fashion]

1714 Sir Godfrey Kneller - Henrietta Cavendish Holles, Countess of Oxford

(Christ Church, University of Oxford)

[jeannepompadour]

Portrait of Elizabeth Colyear, Duchess of Dorset (1687-1768) by Godfrey Kneller (1646–1723), early 18th century

[diemelusine]

Portrait of Peter I of Russia (1698) by Godfrey Kneller. Kensington Palace.

[carloskaplan]

Godfrey Kneller: Retrato do embaixador ruso Piotr Ivánovich Potiomkin, Potemkin (1682)

[paintingsandhistory]

Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia (1672-1725)

Artist: Sir Godfrey Kneller (German-born British, 1646-1723)

Date: 1698

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, London, United Kingdom

Peter the Great

This revered Tsar established Russia as a European power

Peter I modernized the Russian government and military, introduced Western technology, and established a new capital, St. Petersburg, in 1703. He created the modern Russian navy and oversaw advances in education, culture, and science, establishing the country's first university, in St. Petersburg, in 1724. He fought against the Ottoman Empire in 1695-1696 and defeated Sweden in the Great Northern War of 1700-1721, gaining access to the Baltic Sea.

The son of Tsar Alexis, Peter co-ruled with his brother Ivan and their sister Sophia as regent from 1682 to 1689, then as co-tsars until Ivan's death in 1696. After this he was sole Tsar, and took the title of emperor in 1721. On his death he was succeeded by his consort, Empress Catherine I.

[portrait-paintings]

Portrait of Elizabeth Pelham, First Wife of Charles, 2nd Viscount Townshend

Artist: Sir Godfrey Kneller Bt. (German-born British, 1646-1723)

Date: c. 1698

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Private Collection

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: Henry Boyle, Lord Carleton Artist: Godfrey Kneller (English [born Germany], 1646-1723) Date: 1703 Genre: portraiture Period: Baroque Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 127 cm (50 in) high x 101.6 cm (40 in) wide Location: Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, England, UK (National Trust)

Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton (1669-1725), an Anglo-Irish politician who jumped from the Tories to the Whigs and supported William of Orange against James II, held a number of offices in the English/British government, including Chancellor of the Exchequer, Secretary of State, and (after being raised to the peerage) Lord President of the Privy Council.

Sir Godfrey Kneller, born in the Free City of Lübeck (now in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany), was the foremost portraitist in England in the late seventeenth/early eighteenth century. In addition to serving as the court painter to English/British monarchs from Charles II to George I, he painted many notables of his day, such as Isaac Newton and John Locke.

[royalty-nobility]

King George I

Artist: Replica by Sir Godfrey Kneller (German-born British, 1646-1723)

Date: 1716, based on a work of 1714

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom

George I of Great Britain

George I (1660 – 1727), was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 and ruler of the Electorate of Hanover within the Holy Roman Empire from 23 January 1698 until his death in 1727. He was the first British monarch of the House of Hanover.

The purpose of royal portraiture was not individual depiction but the representation of power. Artists conveyed this symbolically using traditional poses and symbols: crown, sceptre, orb and ermine robes of state. This repetition helped assert the continuity of the Royals. Although not great art patrons, such propaganda was important to George I and his son George II. In order to ensure a Protestant succession these Hanoverian rulers, from Germany, had come to the British throne in 1714. They faced constant challenge from the rebellious Catholic Jacobites until they were quashed in 1745.