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| Title | George I | |
| Collection | Dover Museum | |
| Artist | Attributed to Kneller, Godfrey (English painter, 1646-1723) and studio Previously attributed to Dahl, Michael, I (Swedish painter, born 1656 or 1659, died 1743, active in England) |
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| Date Earliest | 1714 | |
| Date Latest | probably 1727 | |
| Description | King George I (1660-1727), King of Great Britain and Ireland (1714-1727), is shown here seated full-length wearing the Garter robes and resting his right hand on an orb. His crown is place next to him on a red cloth-covered table. A window on the background reveals a view of Westminster Abbey. It seems to be a variation of the standard Kneller coronation portrait of 1714. This portrait was given to Dover Corporation by Alexander Wellard, Esq., Mayor, in 1758 and originally hung in the Court Hall. | |
| Current Accession Number | Dovrm 0.11022 DTH | |
| Subject | portrait (King George I); interior | |
| Measurements | 227.5 x 133.5 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Given by Alexander Wellard, Mayor 1758. | |
| Publications | Wollaston Knocker, E., An Account of the Corporation Insignia, Seals and Plate, with Lists of Mayors, Borough Officers and Honorary Freemen and Particular of Portraits and Principal Pictures, the Property of the Corporation, Dover, 1898, p. 47, no. 5. | |
| Notes | Label on back 'Underdown and Chettle, Picture frame manufacturers, Market Square, Dover'. The painting had been attributed to Michael Dahl I, but there is not any known portrait of King George I by Dahl. There must have been a confusion between King George I and George, Prince of Denmark, of whom many portraits by Dahl survive. The painting bears a resemblance in pose, though little else, to the portrait of George I by Kneller's studio in the National Portrait Gallery, London (1714, NPG 544). | |
| Rights Owner | Dover Museum | |
| Author | Dr Lenia Kouneni | |