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George I (1660-1727) 1715-27
Oil on canvas | 238.4 x 147.9 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 405892
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Kneller was born in Lubeck, studied with Rembrandt in Amsterdam and by 1676 was working in England as a fashionable portrait painter. He painted seven British monarchs (Charles II, James II, William III, Mary II, Anne, George I and George II), though his portraits of Charles II are not longer in the collection, and in 1715 was the first artist to be made a Baronet (the next was John Everett Millais in 1885). A set of portraits of naval heroes was given by George IV to the Royal Naval Hospital in Greenwich in 1824. This is a studio version of a composition which was probably created out of the same sitting as the state portrait (see OM 360, 405677). A better version belongs to the National Portrait Gallery, London; the composition was also engraved by George Vertue in 1718. The sitter is shown wearing the robes and the collar of the Garter; besides him is a table on which rests the plumed hat of the Order with the crown, sceptre and orb.
Provenance
Possibly the painting recorded in store at Carlton House in 1816 (no 247) and 1819 (no 366); in the First Room of the Prince of Wales's Apartments at Hampton Court in 1835 (no 489); in the Queen's Private Chamber at Hampton Court in 1861 (no 782)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
238.4 x 147.9 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
265.5 x 173.7 x 7.5 cm (frame, external)
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