MICHAEL

See also:

• DAHL (or DALE), VLADIMIR IVANOVICH (1802-1872)
• DAHL, HANS (1849- )
• DAHL, JOHANN CHRISTIAN (1778-1857)
• MICHAEL DAHL (1656-1743)

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