Portrait-painting was the deliberate choice of Sir Godfrey
Kneller because it was profitable. It was said of him: “Where he
offered one picture to fame, he sacrificed twenty to lucre.” He
said of himself: “Painters of history make the dead live, and
do not begin to live themselves till they are dead; I paint the
living and they enable me to live.” And in this he succeeded,
for he painted ten sovereigns, and among other celebrities,
Marlborough, Newton and Dryden. He was rewarded, too, by poems
written in his honor by Pope, Addison, Steele and others. King
William got him to paint the beauties of Hampton Court. (Text.)
(2119)
=Mountain, The=--See VIEWPOINT, THE.
=Mourning=--See BIBLE CUSTOMS TO-DAY.
=Movement=--See SLOWNESS.