Pattern for China Plates (Utica)
George Knapton
n.d.
Medium
Pen and black ink, with brush and gray wash, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
24.3 × 24.4 cm (9 5/8 × 9 5/8 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
83022
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
George Knapton · 1698–1778
**George Knapton** (1698–1778) was an English portrait painter renowned for his work with aristocratic and royal sitters, as well as his role as a connoisseur of Old Master paintings. Born in Christchurch, Hampshire, as the son of William Knapton Esquire of Brockenhurst, he trained under the leading portraitist Jonathan Richardson and attended the St Martin’s Lane Academy in London. He later spent...