Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton

Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646 - 1723)

National Portrait Gallery

1702

Half length portrait of Newton in a long brown wig, aged sixty. Signed: Sir Isaac Newton painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller 1702.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 76 x 64 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £400 ( Total: £800)
• ArtFunded in: 1936
• Vendor: Sotheby's

Provenance

Newton, his nephew John Conduitt, his daughter married Viscount Lymington, father of the second Earl of Portsmouth. Remained in that family.

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