Godfrey KnellerEngeland, 1646–1723The Lady Copley
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In het leven van Godfrey Kneller
Het hele levenc. 1682 – 1702
A house on the Great Piazza, Covent Garden
For about twenty years he lives at No. 1617, the Great Piazza, Covent Garden; his studio manager is Edward Byng. His studio turns out portraits on an almost industrial scale, working from a brief sketch of the face with the rest completed by pupils and assistants, and Kneller can receive up to fourteen sitters in a single day.
1685
Daughter born: Agnes Voss (or Catherine, later Huckle)
9 November 1695
Honorary Doctor of Civil Law at Oxford
In the presence of the King, the University of Oxford confers on Kneller the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law.
1700
Knight of the Holy Roman Empire
Emperor Leopold I creates Kneller a Knight of the Holy Roman Empire.
early 1700s
Justice of the Peace for Middlesex
Besides painting, he serves as a Justice of the Peace for the county of Middlesex; he is said to have had a shrewd wit and sound judgment and to have dispensed a rough-and-ready equity that commanded respect. Among his cases was a well-known entrapment trial, immortalised by Alexander Pope in a satire published in 1737.
23 January 1704
Marriage to Susanna Grave
At St Bride's Church in London he marries a widow, Susanna Grave, daughter of the Reverend John Cawley, Archdeacon of Lincoln, and granddaughter of the regicide William Cawley. The couple had no children.
