painted Young woman in 1863  Related Paintings of August Allebe :. | Young woman | Old woman by a hearth | 'Later days' | Later days | Young woman |
Related Artists:
W.H.D. Koerner
1878-1938
Sylvestro Lega
1826-1895 Italian Sylvestro Lega Gallery
KNELLER, Sir Godfrey
German-born English Baroque Era Painter, 1646-1723 English painter and draughtsman of German birth. He was the leading portrait painter in England during the late 17th century and the early 18th, and, as such, the chief recorder of court society for almost 40 years. He popularized the kit-cat format for portraits and was also the founding governor in 1711 of the first proper academy of art in England. His older brother Johann [John] Zachary Kneller (b L?beck, 1642; d London, 1702), with whom he was close, was also a painter; his works include watercolour miniatures and still-lifes,