File:Kneller, Godfrey, George II, King of England (1683-1760), ca. 1727-32.jpg
Original file (1,304 × 2,000 pixels, file size: 291 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Summary[edit]
Artist |
Sir Godfrey Kneller, British, 1646–1723 |
Object type |
painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
Description |
English: British artist
After Sir Godfrey Kneller, British, 1646–1723 George II, King of England (1683–1760), ca. 1727–32 Oil on canvas 242.2 x 153 cm. (95 3/8 x 60 1/4 in.) 276.9 x 184.1 cm. (109 x 72 1/2 in.) (frame) Princeton University, gift of members of the Classes of 1894 and 1919 PP2 It was under the reign of George II that the charter of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) was granted. In January 1761, a life size portrait of the King was delivered to Princeton from Great Britain and hung in what is now the Faculty Room in Nassau Hall. The College President at the time, Samuel Davies, preached a funeral sermon on the King who had recently died. Sixteen years later, during the Battle of Princeton when Nassau Hall was bombarded by the American troops, a cannon ball came through a window and destroyed the portrait. The portrait of George II seen here was presented to the University in 1936 by four alumni believing it be by the same artist who painted the earlier portrait, Charles Jarvis, court painter to George II. More recently, research has uncovered that this portrait is after Sir Godfrey Kneller’s (British, 1646-1723) portrait of George II when Prince of Wales that resides in the Royal Collection, London. In Princeton’s portrait, George the II is presented as King with royal orb and scepter. The identity of the copyist, who was probably a contemporary of Jarvis, has not yet been established. |
Date |
circa 1727 date QS:P571,+1727-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 –32 |
Source/Photographer | Princeton University Art Museum |
Licensing[edit]
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain". This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. {{PD-Art}} template without license parameter: please specify why the underlying work is public domain in both the source country and the United States
(Usage: {{PD-Art|1=|deathyear=''year of author's death''|country=''source country''}}, where parameter #1 can be PD-old-auto, PD-old-auto-expired, PD-old-auto-1996, PD-old-100 or similar. See Commons:Multi-license copyright tags for more information.) |
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 01:20, 14 September 2015 | 1,304 × 2,000 (291 KB) | Djkeddie (talk | contribs) | User created page with UploadWizard |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following page uses this file:
File usage on other wikis
The following other wikis use this file:
- Usage on en.wikipedia.org
- Usage on it.wikipedia.org
- Usage on pl.wikipedia.org
Metadata
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
JPEG file comment | LEAD Technologies Inc. V1.01 |
---|
- British paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum
- European Portraits in the Princeton University Art Museum
- Portrait paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum
- 18th-century portrait paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum
- Campus Collections of Princeton University
- Portrait paintings of George II of Great Britain
- Works after Godfrey Kneller