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Godfrey Kneller

1646 - 1723

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Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1st Baronet (born Gottfried Kniller; 8 August 1646 – 19 October 1723) was a German-British painter. The leading portraitist in England during the late Stuart and early Georgian eras, he served as court painter to successive English and British monarchs, including Charles II of England and George I of Great Britain. Kneller also painted scientists such as Isaac Newton, foreign monarchs such as Louis XIV of France and visitors to England such as Michael Shen Fu-Tsung. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Godfrey Kneller has received more than 404,953 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Godfrey Kneller is the 576th most popular painter (up from 625th in 2019), the 1,569th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,703rd in 2019) and the 53rd most popular German Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Godfrey Kneller ranks 576 out of 1,421. Before him are Théo van Rysselberghe, Jean Béraud, Francesco Francia, Nicolas de Staël, Pierre Alechinsky, and Pompeo Batoni. After him are Joseph Karl Stieler, Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Théophile Steinlen, Guido of Siena, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, and István Sándorfi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1646, Godfrey Kneller ranks 10. Before him are Jules Hardouin-Mansart, John Flamsteed, Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Antoine Galland, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, and Maria Francisca of Savoy. After him are Hortense Mancini, Charles Plumier, Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans, and Glückel of Hameln. Among people deceased in 1723, Godfrey Kneller ranks 7. Before him are Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Christopher Wren, Dimitrie Cantemir, Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. After him are Praskovia Saltykova, Anne Christine of Sulzbach, Princess of Piedmont, Zanabazar, Antonio Maria Valsalva, Anne Henriette of Bavaria, and Guillaume Dubois.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Godfrey Kneller ranks 1,569 out of 6,142. Before him are Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff (1896), Eduard Spranger (1882), Friedrich Ebert Jr. (1894), Hans Knappertsbusch (1888), John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (1455), and Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden (1763). After him are Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1526), Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel (1789), Joseph Karl Stieler (1781), Friedrich Parrot (1791), Kathrine Switzer (1947), and Adam Olearius (1603).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Godfrey Kneller ranks 53. Before him are Joos van Cleve (1485), Peter von Cornelius (1784), Heinrich Füger (1751), Hans Holbein the Elder (1465), Max Pechstein (1881), and Hans Hartung (1904). After him are Joseph Karl Stieler (1781), Albert Bierstadt (1830), Anton von Werner (1843), Oswald Achenbach (1827), Joachim von Sandrart (1606), and Felix Nussbaum (1904).

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