Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Sir Godfrey Kneller
Standard Name: Kneller, Sir Godfrey
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Burnet | Sir Godfrey Kneller
painted EB
's portrait (now in the National Portrait Gallery
) in this same year. |
| Leisure and Society | Mary Caesar | MC
(who was also painted by Kneller
) had herself painted by an unidentified artist in a striking red, white, and blue costume, apparently designed for the sport of archery. Rumbold, Valerie. “The Jacobite vision of Mary Caesar”. Women, Writing, History, 1640-1740, edited by Isobel Grundy and Susan Wiseman, Batsford, 1992, pp. 178-98. 185 Rumbold, Valerie. Women’s Place in Pope’s World. Cambridge University Press, 1989. 232, 235n50 |
| Leisure and Society | Lady Rachel Russell | LRR
was often painted, both in youth and age. The original Dictionary of National Biography mentions many portraits; Schwoerer's biography reproduces five. A Kneller
at Woburn is reproduced in most editions of her letters; another... |
| Leisure and Society | Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford | Sir Godfrey Kneller
painted a portrait of the young Lady Hertford with a basket of flowers to reflect her interest in gardening. Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press, 2013. 107 |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Burnet | On her death the same leading publishing house at once re-issued the book in a second edition, with her name, a frontispiece featuring her portrait (engraved by M. Vandergucht
after Kneller
), and a memoir... |
| Residence | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Her husband bought Savile House there in 1722, having apparently rented it from Sir Godfrey Kneller
before that. |
| Textual Features | Mary Caesar | Her own meeting with the monarchy in the person of Queen Anne
is handled with hyperbole: it was as Impossible for me Even to Attempt the Beauties of that Excellent Queens Mind, as for Kneller |
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