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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, Related Paintings of KNELLER, Sir Godfrey :. | The Presentacion of the Virgin in the temple | Last resort. Signed and dated bottom left: Raden Saleh | Portrait of Alessandro de' Medici | Nordseelandschaft mit Booten an einem dunstigen Morgen | Crucifixion | Related Artists: GARCIA, PereSpanish painter (active 1455-1479 in Barcelona) Herring, John F. Sr.British, 1795-1865 Piotr Michalowski(July 2, 1800 - June 9, 1855) was a Polish painter of the Romantic period, especially known for his many portraits.
His talent was long underestimated, but he was re-discovered by Pablo Picasso in 1948. When the painter visited Poland, he saw Michałowski's work in the Warsaw National Museum and shouted, "Here, painter!"
The Sukiennice Museum, a division of the National Museum in Krakew, contains a room devoted to Michałowski's work.
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