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Godfrey Kneller: Samuel Pepys, 1633-1703  wikidata:Q50892503 reasonator:Q50892503
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)
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artist QS:P170,Q65317
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Title
Samuel Pepys, 1633-1703 Edit this at Wikidata
label QS:Len,"Portrait of Samuel Pepys"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Kneller painted the portrait of Pepys at the same time he painted a portrait of Pepys's longtime friend and employee William Hewer. Both portraits remained in the possession of the Pepys family until they were acquired by the National Maritime Museum in 1931. Courtesy of the Caird Collection, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.
Depicted people Samuel Pepys Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1689
date QS:P571,+1689-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 76 cm (29.9 in); width: 63.5 cm (25 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,76U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,63.5U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1199924
Current location
Royal Museums Greenwich
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BHC2947 (Royal Museums Greenwich) Edit this at Wikidata
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