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Portrait of Isaac Newton, File Record (Wikimedia Commons, after Kneller, 1689)

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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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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.
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Wikimedia Commons
URL
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689.jpg
Source Type
reference-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..."

Claims Backed By This Source (10 claims)

This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

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  • Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
  • Sacred Art & Iconography, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
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