Portrait of Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
Godfrey Kneller · 1689
Why it's great
A scientist with long, white hair in a plain brown robe looks out with a serious face. Godfrey Kneller painted Isaac Newton in 1689, when Newton was 46, a few years after he published his law of gravity.
Where to see it
📍 Isaac Newton InstituteCambridge, United Kingdom
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Godfrey Kneller was a German-born painter, born in Lübeck in 1646. He moved to England and became the most successful portrait painter in London, painting eight kings and queens as well as Isaac Newton. He died in London in 1723.
