George Knapton

George Knapton

George Knapton was the first portraitist for the Society of Dilettanti in the 1740s.

Sources

Redford, Bruce. 2008. Dilettanti: the antic and the antique in eighteenth-century England. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum.


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