A Wikimedia Commons file record for the 1689 portrait of Isaac Newton attributed to Sir Godfrey Kneller, the version catalogued as executed by James Thornhill after Kneller's original and held in the collection of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, sourced to the Art UK public collections database and dated to before 1931 for public domain status.
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Assessment
Reliability Tier3
A user-contributed file record on a public collections database, used only for the specific painting's date and holding collection, corroborated by the atlas's existing general Newton biography source citing the same portrait in its infobox image. Citation
PublisherWikimedia Commons
URLhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689.jpg
Source Typereference-database
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This source names Isaac Newton directly: "file record for the 1689 portrait of Isaac Newton attributed to Sir Godfrey Kneller, the version catalogued as executed by James Thornhill after Kneller's original and held in the collection of the..."
Source Portrait of Isaac Newton, File Record (Wikimedia Commons, after Kneller, 1689)
Claims Backed By This Source (12 claims)
This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 6 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
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