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Michael Dahl

Michael Dahl (1656/59 - 1743) was active/lived in Sweden, England.  Michael Dahl is known for Portrait painting, aristocracy and royalty.

Michael Dahl was a Swedish portrait-painter who lived and died in England most of his career. He is considered one of the most internationally known Swedish painters of his time. He painted some members of royal families, such as Queen Anne of Great Britain, Prince George of Denmark and the exiled Christina, Queen of Sweden.

Michael Dahl was born in the capital of Sweden, Stockholm, in either 1656 or 1659, though most of the sources point to the year of 1659. His mother, Catarina Dahl, is assumed to have done many silent sacrifices to give Michael the opportunity of getting a good education, so that his talent was not to be wasted. According to letters written by Michael from Rome to his mother back in Sweden, she had raised him and his sister in an old-fashioned way and in the spirit of Christianity.

At the age of at least 15 years, Dahl had to decide where he was going to study art, though it wasn't much of a choice. The only options in Sweden at the time were becoming   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6722 characters.]  Artist bio

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