Artist

J. & P. Knapton

J. & P. Knapton is a Baroque artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

J. & P. Knapton made printed portraits and scenes in mid-1700s London, the kind you’d find in shop windows or gentlemen’s clubs. Their 1746 engraving in the H Beard Print Collection shows a finely dressed figure, maybe a merchant or a writer, posed with a book and quill. Tap H Beard Print Collection to see the full print and imagine hanging it on a wall in Georgian England.

Works by J. & P. Knapton

Collections represented

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