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Godfrey Kneller: James Vernon (c.1680–1756)  wikidata:Q118986196 reasonator:Q118986196
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 19 October 1723 / 27 October 1723 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Lübeck Edit this at Wikidata London Edit this at Wikidata
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)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q65317
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
James Vernon (c.1680–1756) Edit this at Wikidata
label QS:Len,"Portrait of James Vernon, aged 14 (1677-1756)"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people James Vernon the younger Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa 1691
date QS:P571,+1691-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
(date sitter was 14) or between circa 1690 and circa 1697
date QS:P571,+1690-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1690-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1697-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
(date given by GAC)
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 185 cm (72.8 in); width: 120 cm (47.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,185U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,120U174728
institution QS:P195,Q5588677
Current location
British embassy, Berlin
Accession number
2094
Object history
  • circa 1681
    date QS:P,+1681-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
    : commissioned by James Vernon (c.1646-1727, father of the sitter)
  • 1860: in collection of Charles Anthony Dashwood (by descent, as part of the Vernon Estate)
  • 27 July 1938: sale of the collection of Dashwood Heirlooms (Mrs J. H. Wilson) at Sotheby's, London
  • March 1953: purchased by the Ministry of Works from Agnew’s Gallery, London
Inscriptions

Caption verso on old lining (now removed and preserved):

No 6
This Portrait of Mr. IAs VERNON at the
age of XIV, was painted by Sir G. KNELLER
as an acknowledgement of the obligation he owed to
Mr Secretary VERNON his father for having
introduced him to the Duke of Monmouth, by which
means he obtained the Patronage of K. Charles
the IId which had ...the foundation of that considerable
Fortune, he afterwards made.
DASHWOOD HEIRLOOM NO 1
References object page, GAC
Source/Photographer Art UK

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