| Description | Includes:
-two letters from Douglas Stewart, Melton, Suffolk, dated June-July 1966, concerning a reproduction portrait of Charles I as Prince of Wales, purported to be by Kneller, published in The Standard Bearer by Peter Verney; and the influence of Raphael on Kneller
-extract: mention of Gerrard Howard cleaning a portrait of the Duke of Schomberg by Kneller, in the Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840 by Geoffrey Beard and Christopher Gilbert (ed.), p453
-note on a reference to the identification of the portrait of Sebastiano Bombelli in Udine as Kneller by D. Stewart
-note on a portrait of 1st Duke of Leeds by Kneller
-letter from Kingsley Adams, The National Portrait Gallery, London, dated 29 October 1960, concerning the portrait: Queen Anne when a Princess by Kneller at Forthampton Court, Gloucester
-letter to Gillian (?), from Jacob Hess, dated 17 June 1952, concerning Honthorst and Kneller
-extract: A Queen's Gardener [publication unknown, subject is Henry Wise (1653-1738) with mention of payments to Kneller]
-postcard: Pete (?), Weston-super-Mare, dated 11 July 1957, concerning a double portrait of Sir and Lady Kneller at Pyt House, Wiltshire sale
-typescript: The Portrait Painter Sir Godfrey Kneller viewed in the light of the formation of the art of his time, described by Dr W.A. Ackermann... Luebeck, 1845
-note on a hanging at White's in early 2005 featuring an early Kneller purported to be the 7th Earl of Huntingdon
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