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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
Portrait of Elizabeth, Duchess of Dorset, full-length, in a white dress with a blue wrap, leaning on a stone pedestal with her left hand, beside a draped curtain
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From Germany, Godfrey Kneller arrived in England in the late 1600s and became noted for his international style of portrait painting, which meant conveying on canvas dignity and a clear sense of rank and grace and refinement. The method was to pose the subject in elaborate costume with hands positioned authoritatively and use subtle underpainting, rich coloration and a "refined patterning of light and shadow" (32) so that "all was fused into a single harmony" (35).
Kneller achieved his po (showing 500 of 1439 characters). |
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