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George Knapton
1698–1778
(b London, 1698; bur. Kensington, Middlesex [now in London], 28 Dec. 1778). English portrait painter, a pupil of Richardson. He was in Italy 1725–32 and in 1736 he became a foundation member of and official painter to the Society of Dilettanti, a social club for gentlemen who had visited that country.
Text Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford University Press)