Kneller, Sir Godfrey, portrait-painter, born at Lübeck; studied under Rembrandt and at Italy, came to England in 1674, and was appointed court painter to Charles II., James II., William III., and George I.; practised his art till he was seventy, and made a large fortune (1646‒1723).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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