George Knapton (1698–1778) was an English portrait painter and the first portraitist for the Society of Dilettanti in the 1740s. He became Surveyor and Keeper of the King's Pictures from 1765 to 1778.[2]
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- ^ "Knapton, George". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.