Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton
Sir Godfrey Kneller
- Art Funded
- 1936
- Dimensions
- 76 x 64 cm
- Vendor
- Sotheby's
Half length portrait of Newton in a long brown wig, aged sixty.
Signed: Sir Isaac Newton painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller 1702.
Provenance
Newton, his nephew John Conduitt, his daughter married Viscount Lymington, father of the second Earl of Portsmouth. Remained in that family.