George Knapton was a portrait painter in oils and crayons. He was born in London and trained at the St Martin's Lane Academy. He was also apprenticed to Jonathan Richardson the elder. Knapton was a founder member the Society of Dillettanti in 1736, and painted twenty-three portraits (mostly in fancy dress) of the members. He also published a paper on the recent discovery of Herculaneum in 1740. He resigned as a member of the Society in 1763, but seems to have given up painting c.1755. He became surveyor and keeper of the King's pictures in 1765.

Henry Frankland acted as the President of province of Bengal in British India from the year 1726 to 1728. He was one of the most prominent Colonial administrators of the British East India Company.