George Knapton (1698–1778) was an English portrait painter and the first portraitist for the Society of Dilettanti in the 1740s. He became Surveyor and...
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first members went on to become significant figures, including Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell and William Hamilton Fyfe.[citation needed] Merton has...
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archaeological expeditions. The first artist associated with the group was George Knapton. The Society of Dilettanti aimed to correct and purify the public taste...
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prominent part in the proceedings of the Dilettanti Society, and in 1742 George Knapton painted his portrait for the Society. On 2 March 1746, when John Montagu...
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Kew Palace (section George II's children)
with her at Richmond Lodge. George and Caroline had come to Britain in 1714 when George's father took the throne as George I, leaving their eldest son...
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Knapton is a village in the English county of Norfolk. Knapton may also refer to: Knapton, Scampston, a former civil parish, now in Scampston, North Yorkshire...
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Robert died, his parents had a second son, named "George" and Robert was born 12 years after George who would have inherited the baronetcy, but died before...
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John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer (category Peers of Great Britain created by George III)
the First Lord of the Treasury and Lord President of the Council under George I, and his second wife, Lady Anne Churchill (third daughter of the 1st Duke...
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Frederick, Prince of Wales (category Peers of Great Britain created by George I)
list of other artists whom he employed—Philippe Mercier, John Wootton, George Knapton, and the engraver Joseph Goupy—includes some of the principal painters...
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King George II. She never became queen consort, as Frederick predeceased his father in 1751. Augusta's eldest son succeeded her father-in-law as George III...
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