File:Portrait, William Byrd II, Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg
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artist QS:P170,Q65317 |
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painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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English: William Byrd II gestures with his right hand toward a distant scene in this three-quarter-length oil portrait made in London between 1700 and 1704. This painting was executed by Sir Godfrey Kneller, the royal court's official painter and the most important portraitist in England in the the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Byrd hung this canvas at Westover, his family's plantation house on the James River in Charles City County. Over the years, he exhibited more than thirty portraits of family members and friends in the manor house, an extraordinary display in that time and place. |
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Date | circa 1700-1704 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
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institution QS:P195,Q841700 |
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Source/Photographer | Encyclopedia Virginia. Courtesy of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. |
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JPEG file comment | Acc. #1956-561 Paintings (category). Portrait of William Byrd II (1674-1744). Three-quarter-length portrait of a standing man, his body half-turned towards the viewer's left. His proper left hand rests on his hip, his proper right arm is slightly raised as he appears to gesture into the distance. |
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