Queen Anne and the Knights of the Garter
In this group portrait, titled Queen Anne and the Knights of the Garter, we find a significant moment of courtly ritual captured by Peter Angellis. The work depicts Queen Anna receiving the new Knights of the Garter at Kensington Palace on 4 August 1713. It is a scene of formal ceremony, documenting a specific instance of royal prerogative and the structured hierarchy of the eighteenth-century court.







