Walking out of Lime Street Station in Liverpool you would be forgiven for thinking you had stepped into a 19th-century acropolis.

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 ...

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 ...