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DANCE , the name of an See also:

English See also:family distinguished in See also:architecture, See also:art and the See also:drama. See also:GEORGE DANCE, the See also:elder (1700-1768), obtained the See also:appointment of architect to the See also:city of See also:London, and designed the See also:Mansion See also:House (1739) ; the churches of St Botolph, Aldgate (1741), St See also:Luke's, Old See also:Street; St Leonard, See also:Shoreditch; the old See also:excise See also:office; Broad Street; and other public See also:works of importance. He died on the 8th of See also:February 1768. His eldest son, See also:JAMES DANCE (1722-1744), was See also:born on the 17th of See also:March 1722, and educated at the See also:Merchant Taylors' School and St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Oxford, which he See also:left before graduating. He took the name of Love, and became an actor and playwright of no See also:great merit. In the former capacity he was for twelve years connected with See also:Drury See also:Lane See also:theatre. He wrote " an heroic poem " on See also:Cricket, about 1740, and a See also:volume of Poems on Several Occasions (1754), and a number of comedies —the earliest Pamela (1742). George Dance's third son, See also:Sir NATHANIEL DANCE-See also:HOLLAND, See also:Bart. (1735-1811), was born on the 18th of May 1735, and studied art under See also:Francis Hayman, and in See also:Italy, where he met See also:Angelica See also:Kauffmann, to whom he was devotedly and hopelessly attached. From See also:Rome he sent See also:home " See also:Dido and See also:Aeneas " (1763), and he continued to paint occasional See also:historical pictures of the same quasi-classic See also:kind throughout his career. On his return to See also:England he took up portrait-See also:painting with great success, and contributed to the first See also:exhibition of the Royal See also:Academy, of which he was a See also:foundation member, full-length portraits of George III. and his See also:queen. These, and his portraits of See also:Captain See also:Cook and of See also:Garrick as See also:Richard III., engraved by See also:Dixon, are his best-known works.

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rich See also:man, in 1790 he married a widow with £15,000 a See also:year, dropped his profession, and became M.P. for See also:East Grinstead, taking the additional name of Holland. He was made a See also:baronet in 1800. He died on the 15th of See also:October 1811, leaving a See also:fortune of £200,000. George Dance's fifth and youngest son, GEORGE DANCE, the younger (1741-1825), succeeded his See also:father as city surveyor and architect in 1768. He was then only twenty-seven, had spent several years abroad, chiefly in Italy with his See also:brother Nathaniel, and had already distinguished himself by designs for Blackfriars See also:Bridge sent to the 1761 exhibition of the Incorporated Society of Artists. His first important public See also:work was the rebuilding of Newgate See also:prison in 1770. The front of the See also:Guildhall was also his. He, too, was a foundation member of the Royal Academy, and for a number of years the last survivor of the See also:forty See also:original academicians. His last years were devoted to art rather than to architecture, and after 1798 his Academy contributions consisted solely of See also:chalk portraits of his See also:friends, seventy-two of which were engraved and published (1808-1814). He resigned his office in 1815, and after many years of illness died on the 14th of See also:January 1825, and was buried in St See also:Paul's. His son, See also:CHARLES DANCE (1794-1863), was for See also:thirty years registrar, taxing officer and See also:chief clerk of the insolvent debtors' See also:court, retiring, when it was abolished, on an See also:allowance. In collaboration with J.

R. See also:

Planche and others, or alone, he wrote a great number of extravaganzas, farces and comediettas. He was one of the first, if not the first, of the See also:burlesque writers, and was the author of those produced so successfully by Madame See also:Vestris for years at the Olympic. Of his farces, Delicate Ground, Who Speaks First?, A See also:Morning See also:Call and others are still occasionally revived. He died on the 6th of January 1863.

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