Williams and William Faithorne have plates after Kneller. His painting influenced all other contemporary painters, for they imitated him to follow the fashion.
Kneller is known for his portraits that belong to the last decade of baroque style. Baroque period, era in the history of the Western arts approximately was an artistic trend during the 17th century. It firstly emerged in Italy. Baroque paintings' outstanding characteristics can be "grandeur, sensuous richness, drama, vitality, movement, tension, emotional exuberance, and a tendency to blur distinctions between the various arts."" (Webmuseum). His portrait of Philip, Lord Wharton (Fig. 1.2) is a perfect example of his style. The portrait was created in 1685. Despite the official quality of the picture, the casualty and spontaneity prevails the picture via the sitting position and smile on the subject's face. Vivacity and directness of the picture is outstanding. The glowing courtly red is all over the place point out the face of Lord Wharton. Although not every work of Kneller carries such quality. In later works of him, mostly he chose quantity over quality. Specially by his efforts to portray every member of the Kit-Cat Club which consisted of the leading Whig peers, politicians, soldiers, financiers, writers, and scientists of the day, he adjusted his standards up to the situation and chose a smaller size which was not conventional and portrayed them in a more intimate position, mostly showing only the bust or the head or one hand of them. So his form and content are mostly affected on terms of the day.
Immigrant British painter, John Smibert (1688-1751) is a follower of the Baroque style of Sir Godfrey "who had developed a formula for depicting the sophisticated, idealized representation of the nobility."(Craven 71). Alongside the painting of the limners, Smibert's represented professional virtuosity. His first painting in the New World, The Bermuda Group: Dean George Berkeley and His Family, of 1729 (fig 1.
