Sir Godfrey Kneller is the only portrait painter to be commemorated in Westminster Abbey. His marble monument, set up in 1730, is by sculptor J.M. Rysbrack, after a design by Kneller, and was first ...

The work, by German-born painter Godrey Kneller - the leading portraitist of the age - has been put up for sale by a member of the extended L'Estrange family. Born at the family seat of Old ...