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DAHL, MICHAEL (1656-1743)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 731 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DAHL, See also:MICHAEL (1656-1743) , See also:Swedish portrait painter, was See also:born at See also:Stockholm. He received his. first professional educationfrom See also:Ernst Klocke, who had a respectable position in that See also:northern See also:town, which, however, Dahl See also:left in his twenty-second See also:year. His first destination was See also:England, where he did not See also:long remain, but crossed over to See also:Paris, and made his way at last to See also:Rome, there taking up his See also:abode for a considerable See also:time, See also:painting the portraits of See also:Queen See also:Christina and other celebrities. In 1688 he returned to England, and became for some years a dangerous See also:rival to See also:Kneller. He died in See also:London. His portraits still exist in many houses, but his name is not always preserved with them. Nagler (Kiinstler-See also:Lexicon) says those at See also:Hampton See also:Court and at Petworth contest the See also:palm with those of the better known and vastly more employed painter.

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