Johann Zacharias Kneller

Johann Zacharias Kneller, actually Kniller, John Zachary Kneller ( born October 6, 1644 Lübeck, † 1702 in London) was also a German, in London last active painter.

Life

Kneller Lübeck came from a family of artists; He was the eldest son of the Lübeck painter and foreman at the St. Catherine's Church Zacharias Kniller and his wife Lucia, born booties. The painter Gottfried Kniller / Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723) and the organist and composer Andreas Kneller (1649-1724) were his brothers. About his education nothing is known; he should have traveled with his brother to Rome and worked in Hamburg; In 1676 he succeeded his far more successful brother to London and worked with him in a workshop community as landscape, architecture, decoration, still life and portrait painter. Some of the most celebrated portraits of his brother he reproduced as watercolors and miniatures.

The brothers lived until the death of John Zacharias Kneller in 1702 at the northeast corner of the piazza in the center of Covent Garden. Johann Zacharias Kneller was buried in St. Paul's Covent Garden.

Works

• The young scholar (1668 ), painted with the old scholar of his brother as a couple for the town library Lübeck, now in the St. Annen- Museum Lübeck
• Peter Marquard ( 1670 ), Museum of Hamburg History
• Epitaph for Zacharias Kniller ( 1676 ), together with his brother, St. Catherine Lubeck
• King William III. , Miniature, Victoria & Albert Museum
• Another miniature portrait of King William III. ( 13.1 x 10.4 cm), which was located in Schwerin State Museum, is missing since the end of World War II.