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Godfrey Kneller: Portrait of a Gentleman   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Godfrey Kneller  (1646–1723)  wikidata:Q65317 q:en:Godfrey Kneller
 
Godfrey Kneller
Alternative names
Gottfried Kneller, Birth name: Gottfried Kniller
Description German painter, drawer, engraver and miniaturist
Date of birth/death 8 August 1646 Edit this at Wikidata 7 November 1723
Location of birth/death Lübeck London
Work period between circa 1660 and circa 1723
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1660-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1723-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location
Leiden (circa 1660–1665), Rome, Venice (1672–1675), Nuremberg, Hamburg (1674–1676), London (1676–1723), France (1684–1685)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q65317
Title
Portrait of a Gentleman
label QS:Lit,"Ritratto di gentiluomo"
label QS:Lfr,"Portrait d'un gentilhomme"
label QS:Lpl,"Portret szlachcica"
label QS:Lnl,"Portret van een heer"
label QS:Lru,"Портрет джентльмена"
label QS:Les,"Retrato de un caballero"
label QS:Lde,"Bildnis eines Herrn"
label QS:Lpt,"Retrato de um cavalheiro"
label QS:Len,"Portrait of a Gentleman"
label QS:Lfa,"چهرهٔ یک جنتلمن"
label QS:Lbr,"Poltred un denjentil"
label QS:Lmk,"Портрет на господин"
Description
English: Portrait of Sir Charles Sedley
Date 1687
date QS:P571,+1687-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 124.4 cm (48.9 in); width: 101.6 cm (40 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,124.4U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,101.6U174728
Object history

Provenance:

  • By descent to the Rev. EH Dawkins, Morhanger House, Bedfordshire; His sale Christie’s London February 28th 1913 Lot 30 as Sir Charles Sedley Bt Agnew’s 360gn;
  • Scott and Fowles, New York, by 1915, by whom sold to; R.C. and N.M. Vose, November 4th 1915;
  • Bought Matthew Andrews May 18th 1917; Possibly Mrs Hanna (mother of Leonard C Hanna Jr) who is said to have donated it to the Cleveland Playhouse, Cleveland Ohio circa 1976;
  • Cleveland Playhouse Treasure Sale after 1978 where acquired by a private collector, Cleveland Ohio;
  • Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts, New York to 2005.
  • Sold by Philip Mould & Company [1]
Source/Photographer Sir Charles Sedley (1639-1701) (invalid source)

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