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Portrait of a lady
(c. 1680)
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
59.5 × 49.0 cm (oval)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of R. T. Litton Esq., F.R.G.S.A., 1886
Gallery location
17th Century & Flemish Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
Godfrey Kneller became the leading portrait painter in England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He received training in Amsterdam under Ferdinand Bol and possibly also Rembrandt. After working in Italy he came to England in 1676, where he established a workshop, producing great quantities of portraits to meet the demands of the court and Whig establishment. After Sir Peter Lely’s death, Kneller filled his position as premier painter to Charles II. This portrait may have been of a lesser lady of the court.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
(England)
Accession Number
p.311.7-1
Department
International Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Subjects (general)
Portraits
Subjects (specific)
busts (general, figures) dresses (garments) three-quarter views women (female humans)