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See also:MICHAEL See also:DAHL (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, See also: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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