About Robert Byng
Lived 1666 – 1720 (aged 53–54). Robert Byng was a British painter.
Robert Byng (1666–1720) was an English portrait painter.
He was born in Wiltshire, the son of Thomas Byng (or Binge) and his wife Anne. His younger brother Edward Byng (c.1676-1753) was a drapery painter who was the principal assistant to Godfrey Kneller. Robert Byng's works show the influence of Kneller, and many of his drawings in the British Museum are studies of portraits by Kneller, which suggests he may have been a pupil of that artist. He died at Oxford in 1720.
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Who was Robert Byng?
English painter (1666–1720)
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Robert Byng was born in 1666.
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Robert Byng died in 1720 in Oxford.
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Robert Byng was a painter.
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Robert Byng was British.
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· DBpedia: Robert Byng (painter)
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