Mary II (1662-1694) 1760 - 1800
Oil on canvas | 235.6 x 148.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 407686
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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 verison of the state portrait (OM 338, 407686).
Provenance
Possibly acquired by Frederick, Prince of Wales; probably the painting described by William Chambers at Kew Palace in 1763, removed from the Hall at Kew in 1805; recorded in the Coffee Room at Buckingham Palace in 1819 (no 773); in St James's Palace in 1865 (no 23)
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Oil on canvas
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235.6 x 148.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
144.0 cm (sight)
264.0 x 172.7 x 8.0 cm (frame, external)
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