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 Little Pigs (1881); Portraits of Professors Mommsen and Helmholtz (1881), National Gallery, Berlin; Student's Visit Home in Vacation (1884). Works in United States: Road to Ruin, Female Head, Rag Baby, W. H. Vanderbilt, New York; Holy Family, None but the Cats, Miss C. L. Wolfe, ib.; Going to the Dance, August Belmont, ib.; City Belle, M. Graham, ib.; Little Scholar, Gretchen, Girl's Head, W. Rockefeller, ib.; Priest and Poacher, T. R. Butler, ib.; Rococo, J. C. Runkle, ib.; Baby, D. O. Mills, ib.; Little Gretchen, C. S. Smith, ib.; Study of Head, J. T. Martin, Brooklyn; Butcher Boy, Portrait, D. W. Powers, Rochester, N. Y.; City Girl, G. Whitney, Philadelphia; Blacksmith, J. D. Lankenau, ib.; Mud Pies (1873), W. T. Walters, Baltimore; German Subject, Leland Stanford, San Francisco; Unwelcome Visitor, Charles Crocker, ib.; Child, R. C. Taft, Providence; Female Head, J. A. Brown, ib.; Old Age and Child-*hood, Longworth Collection, Cincinnati; Head of Madonna, Hurlbut Collection, Cleveland; Wood-Chopper, S. A. Coale, St. Louis.—Gartenlaube (1869), 12; Kunst-Chronik, i. 137; v. 82, 143; vi. 141; xii. 19; Illust. Zeitg. (1864), i. 115; (1881), ii. 368, 374; Müller, 301; Wolfgang Müller, Düsseldorf K., 253; Leixner, D. mod. K., i. 67; Nord und Süd, xiv. 117; Hecht, i. 124; Riegel, Kunst-Studien, 408; Reber, 618; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 177; Vom Fels zum Meer, i. 302; Wiegmann, 333; Zeitschr. f. b. K., iv. 17; vi. 148; x. (Mittheilungen, iii. 65); xii. 388.

KNELLER (Kniller), Sir GODFREY, Bart., born in Lübeck, Aug. 8, 1646, died at Twickenham, Nov. 7, 1723. Dutch school; portrait painter, reputed to have studied under Rembrandt and Ferdinand Bol at Amsterdam, and in Rome (1672-74) under Carlo Maratta and Bernini (?); went after-*wards to Venice, where he was well received by the leading families, whose portraits he painted. On his return from Italy, lived for a time in Hamburg, but was induced to go to England in 1674, and received such a flattering reception from Charles II. that he determined to remain there. After the death of Sir Peter Lely he was made court-painter, and he received equal favour from James II., William III., who knighted him (1692), Queen Anne, and George I., who made him a baronet (1715). His forty-three portraits of the members of the Kit Kat Club, and his Beauties at Hampton Court, are examples of his facile and meretricious style and corrupt taste. That he was the leading portrait painter of his day shows the low state of art at the time. "Where," says Walpole, "he offered one picture to fame, he sacrificed twenty to lucre." The National Portrait Gallery contains fifteen portraits by him, including Addison, Congreve, Watts, Wren, James II. (1685), and Lady Russell. Portraits of Addison, Pope, Dr. Wallis, and of himself, hang in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Other works: Portrait of the Engraver John Smith (1696), National Gallery, London; William III. landing at Margate (1697), Peter the Great, Queen Mary II., William Duke of Gloucester, John Locke, Sir Isaac Newton, The Hampton Court Beauties (8), Child with Lamb, Hampton Court Palace; James II., The Converted Chinese, Windsor Castle; Portrait of Canon François de Cock, Antwerp Museum; Male Portraits (3), Brunswick Museum; Copernicus in his Study, Königsberg Museum; Queen Henrietta Maria, Old Pinakothek, Munich; John Locke, Sculptor Gibbons, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Man in Coat of Mail, Standard-Bearer (1648, copies after Rembrandt), Schwerin Gallery; A Princess of Portugal,