Venice ca 1432-after 1491  Related Paintings of Bartolomeo Vivarini :. | Madonna della Misericordia | Madonna and Child | St Lawrence the Martyr | Sts Paul and Peter | Triptych of St Mark |
Related Artists:
William George Richardson
artist (b at Nottingham, Eng 12 June 1833; d at Sussex, NB 18 Nov 1889)
Pasquale Liotta
Italian, 1850 - 1912
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,