File:Peter I by Kneller.jpg

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Artist



Alternative names	Gottfried Kneller, Birth name: Gottfried Kniller
Description	German painter, draughtsman, engraver and miniaturist
Date of birth/death	8 August 1646	7 November 1723
Location of birth/death	Lübeck	London
Work period	between circa 1660 and circa 1723
Work location	Leiden (circa 1660–1665), Rome, Venice (1672–1675), Nuremberg, Hamburg (1674–1676), London (1676–1723), France (1684–1685)
Authority control	WorldCat

Description

English: Portrait of Russian Tsar Peter I the Great by Godfrey Kneller (1698). This portrait was Peter's gift to King of England William III. It was painted in 1698 when, between 11 January and 21 April, Peter the Great was in London visiting William III. This was part of his famous "Grand Embassy" of 1697-8 a diplomatic mission which turned into a fact-finding tour of the more advanced countries of Western Europe. the Tzar was especially inetrested in the ship-building of the Dutch and English, having begun the constrauction of a Russian Navy in 1695. The Tzar is here shown wearing armour with an embroidered gold, ermine-lined cloak, his crown on a cushion in a niche; ships can bee seen at manoeuvres through a window.

Date

Signed and dated 1698

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

241.2 x 145.4 cm

Current location

Royal Collection

	Native name	Royal Collection of the United Kingdom
	Location	United Kingdom
	Established	after 1491
	Website	www.royalcollection.org.uk

Accession number

RCIN 405645

Inscriptions

Inscribed by Kneller and signed and dated: Petrus Alexeewitz. Magnus Dominus./ Tzar Et magnus Dux Moscoviae / Jussu Britanniae majestatis Godefridus Kneller Eques ad vivum Pinxit, 1698

References

Cross, Anthony (2000) Peter the Great Through British Eyes: Perceptions and Representations of the Tsar Since 1698, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521782982.

Source/Photographer

www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/405645/peter-the-great-tsar-of-russia-1672-1725

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