Portrait George I, King of England (1660-1727)

Portrait of George I, King of England. The monarch is seen as a frontal chest with a head turned slightly to the right, the eyes pointed towards the view. He carries wig, Hermelinpelz, a jabot made of lace and a long chain around his shoulders. The effigy is framed by an oval frame. This one seems to lean on a wall. Below it appears a pedestal with the three-line inscription. Born as Duke Georg Ludwig of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, the monarch emerged from the dynasty of the Welfen. Due to the Act of Settlement, he became King of Great Britain as George I in 1714. As early as the summer of 1710, the elector brought composer Georg Friedrich Händel to Hanover and appointed him as Hofkapellmeister. The leaf is the sideways variant of the effigy of BS-III 174. In this paper the curtain and the allegorical scene are missing. Jacobus Houbraken stabbed the leaf in 1752 after a submission by Godfrey Kneller. Kneller’s oil painting from 1714/1716 is now at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Other copies of this paper are now in the LWL Museum of Art and Culture in Münster and the Austrian National Library. Signature: G. Kneller pinx. D. Onder de Linden Excudit. J. Houbraken sculps. 1752. Caption: George de I.ste Koning van Groot Britanje, Keurvorst van Brunswyk Lunenburg. (Stiftung Händel-Haus Halle Foundation)