{"id":668,"date":"2024-12-08T18:56:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T18:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.everett-art.co.uk\/shop\/?post_type=product&#038;p=668"},"modified":"2026-09-12T14:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T13:02:17","slug":"studio-of-sir-godfrey-kneller","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/everett-art.co.uk\/gallery\/product\/studio-of-sir-godfrey-kneller\/","title":{"rendered":"Studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><strong>ABOUT THE ARTIST:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Kneller dominated late seventeenth and early eighteenth century British portraiture. With Van Dyck, Lely and Reynolds, his name has become synonymous with the forefront of British historical portraiture \u2013 not least because he painted almost every person of importance in British public life. Every reigning British monarch from Charles II to George I sat for Kneller.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Kneller studied in Amsterdam under Ferdinand Bol, one of Rembrandt\u2019s pupils, before going to Italy in 1672. In Italy he began to paint portraits and modified his style. Arriving in England in 1674 he soon established himself as a portrait painter, especially after he painted Charles II, and he succeeded the leading portraitist of the Restoration period, Sir Peter Lely, as principal painter to the king. Kneller was knighted in 1691 and made a baronet in 1715.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Kneller\u2019s style was broad but his characterisations could be penetrating. Among his best works are 42 portraits of members of the famous political and literary association called the Kit-Cat Club, which are now in the National Portrait Gallery, London. He also executed a series of portraits titled The Hampton Court Beauties and did portraits of British admirals. Studio assistants painted the draperies and other subsidiary elements in many of Kneller\u2019s portraits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>ABOUT THE SUBJECT:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Henrietta Knight, Baroness Luxborough\u00a0(n\u00e9e\u00a0St Johnborn 15 July 1699, died 26 March 1756),\u00a0was an English poet and\u00a0letter writer, now mainly remembered as a gardener. She married the rising politician Robert Knight\u00a0in 1727, but he banished her to his estate at Barrels Hall\u00a0in 1736 as punishment for a romantic indiscretion. Horace Wallpole&#8217;s correspondence suggests she was caught by her husband\u00a0in flagrante delicto\u00a0with her doctor, whilst other sources add a further lover in the form of a young cleric named John Dalton (1709\u20131763).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As Henrietta, Lady Luxborough (from 1745), she was one of the first to establish a\u00a0ferme orn\u00e9e\u00a0and is credited by the\u00a0OED\u00a0with at least the first recorded use, if not the invention, of the word &#8220;shrubbery&#8221;. She was a prominent member of the\u00a0Warwickshire Coterie, a group of poet friends including the gardener and poet\u00a0William Shenstone, who had developed his own\u00a0ferme orn\u00e9e\u00a0at\u00a0The Leasowes\u00a0in\u00a0Halesowen,\u00a0 She remained married to her husband , but died before his final elevations in the peerage to a viscouncy and then 1st Earl of Catherlough<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1646 &#8211; 1723<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c4c4c4;\">S\/N 115<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Portrait of Henrietta Knight, Baroness Luxborough (Ne\u00e9 St John (1699 &#8211; 1756), sister of John St John, 2nd Viscount St John, wearing a Silk White Dress with Blue SilkCloak and a Basket of Flowers on her Lap.<\/p>\n<p>Oil On Canvas<\/p>\n<p>Canvas Size<br \/>\n48 13\/16 x 40 5\/32 ins \u00a0| \u00a0124 x 102 cm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21157,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[25,23],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-668","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-all-stock","product_cat-portrait","first","instock","sold-individually","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everett-art.co.uk\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everett-art.co.uk\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everett-art.co.uk\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everett-art.co.uk\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everett-art.co.uk\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everett-art.co.uk\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everett-art.co.uk\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everett-art.co.uk\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}