€22,000
ATTRIBUTED TO SIR GODFREY KNELLER (1646 - 1723) Portrait of Queen Mary, half length Oil on canvas, 127 x 103cm With label verso bearing inscription: '1st Portrait of Queen Mary, Consort of William 3rd, By Sir Godfrey Kneller / Large half length, carved gilt frame in high presentation, and a fine / specimen of the Master.' With additional label: Albert Amor, 31 St, James' Street, St James, S.W. Sir Godfrey Kneller was a German-born painter and a leading portrait artist in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He moved to England around 1676, having studied first in Amsterdam under a pupil of Rembrandt, and then in Rome and Venice. He became the court and society painter following his introduction to the Duke of Monmouth, through whom he received sittings from the king. He continued to work as a court painter and in 1688 was appointed principal painter to William and Mary. In 1692 he was knighted, and became governor of the Royal Academy in 1711, the year of its establishment.
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