Portrait,_William_Byrd_II,_Sir_Godfrey_Kneller.jpg
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Summary
Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q65317
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Object type |
painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
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Description |
English:
William Byrd II gestures with his right hand toward a distant scene in this three-quarter-length oil portrait made in London between 1700 and 1704. This painting was executed by Sir Godfrey Kneller, the royal court's official painter and the most important portraitist in England in the the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Byrd hung this canvas at Westover, his family's plantation house on the James River in Charles City County. Over the years, he exhibited more than thirty portraits of family members and friends in the manor house, an extraordinary display in that time and place.
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Date | circa 1700-1704 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium |
oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q841700
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Source/Photographer | Encyclopedia Virginia . Courtesy of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation . |
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