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...

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...

archaeological expeditions. The first artist associated with the group was George Knapton. The Society of Dilettanti aimed to correct and purify the public taste...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Buckinghamshire into a wealthy and staunchly Roman Catholic family. He was the son of George Throckmorton and Anne Maria Paston. His elder siblings were Robert Throckmorton...

foremost painters of his time. He was the master of Thomas Hudson and George Knapton. Richardson was even more influential as a writer; he is credited with...

a wealthy and staunchly Roman Catholic family. He was the second son of George Throckmorton and Anne Maria (née Paston) Throckmorton. His elder brother...