James Worsdale
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James Worsdale was an Irish and English portrait painter, actor, literary fraud, and libertine whose lively conversation, wit, and boldness allowed him to move among the highest circles of literary li
Portrait of Yale University founder Elihu Yale
Godfrey Kneller
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Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1st Baronet was a British painter of German origin. The leading portraitist in England during the late Stuart and early Georgian eras, he served as court painter to successive Eng
James Worsdale
…commissions for portraits. Worsdale was born in poverty. His father was a pigment grinder, and James began work as an apprentice to leading portraitist Godfrey Kneller. However, Kneller fired Worsdale for secretly marrying his niece. Worsdale would claim to be Kneller's son-in-law, then Kneller's actual son, but these…
Self-Portrait, 1685
Charles II, 1685
Self-portrait celebrating 'Kneller's worldly success'
His earliest dated work, Johann Philipp Schönborn, 1666