Little Pigs (1881); Portraits of Professors Mommsen and Helmholtz (1881), National Gallery, Berlin; Student's Visit Home in Vacation (1884). Works in United States: Road to Ruin, Female Head, Rag Baby, W. H. Vanderbilt, New York; Holy Family, None but the Cats, Miss C. L. Wolfe, ib.; Going to the Dance, August Belmont, ib.; City Belle, M. Graham, ib.; Little Scholar, Gretchen, Girl's Head, W. Rockefeller, ib.; Priest and Poacher, T. R. Butler, ib.; Rococo, J. C. Runkle, ib.; Baby, D. O. Mills, ib.; Little Gretchen, C. S. Smith, ib.; Study of Head, J. T. Martin, Brooklyn; Butcher Boy, Portrait, D. W. Powers, Rochester, N. Y.; City Girl, G. Whitney, Philadelphia; Blacksmith, J. D. Lankenau, ib.; Mud Pies (1873), W. T. Walters, Baltimore; German Subject, Leland Stanford, San Francisco; Unwelcome Visitor, Charles Crocker, ib.; Child, R. C. Taft, Providence; Female Head, J. A. Brown, ib.; Old Age and Child-*hood, Longworth Collection, Cincinnati; Head of Madonna, Hurlbut Collection, Cleveland; Wood-Chopper, S. A. Coale, St. Louis.—Gartenlaube (1869), 12; Kunst-Chronik, i. 137; v. 82, 143; vi. 141; xii. 19; Illust. Zeitg. (1864), i. 115; (1881), ii. 368, 374; Müller, 301; Wolfgang Müller, Düsseldorf K., 253; Leixner, D. mod. K., i. 67; Nord und Süd, xiv. 117; Hecht, i. 124; Riegel, Kunst-Studien, 408; Reber, 618; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 177; Vom Fels zum Meer, i. 302; Wiegmann, 333; Zeitschr. f. b. K., iv. 17; vi. 148; x. (Mittheilungen, iii. 65); xii. 388.
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KNELLER (Kniller), Sir GODFREY,
Bart., born in Lübeck, Aug. 8, 1646, died at
Twickenham, Nov. 7, 1723. Dutch school;
portrait painter, reputed to have studied
under Rembrandt and Ferdinand Bol at
Amsterdam, and in Rome (1672-74) under
Carlo Maratta and Bernini (?); went after-*wards
to Venice, where he was well received
by the leading families, whose portraits he
painted. On his return from Italy, lived
for a time in Hamburg, but was induced to
go to England
in 1674, and received
such a
flattering reception
from
Charles II. that
he determined
to remain
there. After
the death of Sir
Peter Lely he
was made court-painter, and he received
equal favour from James II., William III.,
who knighted him (1692), Queen Anne, and
George I., who made him a baronet (1715).
His forty-three portraits of the members
of the Kit Kat Club, and his Beauties at
Hampton Court, are examples of his facile
and meretricious style and corrupt taste.
That he was the leading portrait painter of
his day shows the low state of art at the
time. "Where," says Walpole, "he offered
one picture to fame, he sacrificed twenty to
lucre." The National Portrait Gallery contains
fifteen portraits by him, including Addison,
Congreve, Watts, Wren, James II.
(1685), and Lady Russell. Portraits of Addison,
Pope, Dr. Wallis, and of himself,
hang in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Other works: Portrait of the Engraver John
Smith (1696), National Gallery, London;
William III. landing at Margate (1697),
Peter the Great, Queen Mary II., William
Duke of Gloucester, John Locke, Sir Isaac
Newton, The Hampton Court Beauties (8),
Child with Lamb, Hampton Court Palace;
James II., The Converted Chinese, Windsor
Castle; Portrait of Canon François de Cock,
Antwerp Museum; Male Portraits (3), Brunswick
Museum; Copernicus in his Study,
Königsberg Museum; Queen Henrietta
Maria, Old Pinakothek, Munich; John
Locke, Sculptor Gibbons, Hermitage, St.
Petersburg; Man in Coat of Mail, Standard-Bearer
(1648, copies after Rembrandt),
Schwerin Gallery; A Princess of Portugal,
