drawing
- Museum number
- 2002,0323.7
- Description
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Portrait of an unknown girl; bust-length, looking down towards the right. c.1710
Black, red and white chalk, on buff paper
- Production date
- 1689-1743
- Dimensions
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Height: 265 millimetres
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Width: 198 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Dahl, born in Sweden, was an immensely successful portrait painter and the chief rival to Godfrey Kneller during the reign of Queen Anne. Very few drawings by him are known; the attribution of this sensitive study rests on a comparable portrait of a young man, also in the Department, which bore an old inscription to Dahl on the mount (1914-6-15-1) and also with a chalk portrait of a young woman, 1906-7-19-2. For a discussion of the attribution of these drawings and others to Dahl, see the entry for 1885-5-9-1670, the study for the portrait of Lord Harley.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1952 London, Colnaghi, 'Old master drawings from the collection of Sir Bruce Ingram', no.41
1963 Jan-Feb London, Colnaghi, 'A loan exhibition of English drawings and watercolours in memory of the late D.C.T.Baskett', no.31
2003-4 Dec-April, BM, NACF exhibition
- Acquisition date
- 2002
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2002,0323.7