Nathanial Dance trained ,like so many of his contemporaries in Rome , where he studied and collaborated with Pompeo Batoni. It was probably while under Batoni's influence that Dance developed the use of the highly pitched colours that became his trademark , and which help convey this engagingly direct image of a gentleman at leisure.
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Wednesday, 2 January 2013
' Portrait of a Young Man ' Nathanial Dance.Later Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland MP , Ist Bart. (English 1735-1811) oil on canvas.Canadian Private Collection.
Nathanial Dance trained ,like so many of his contemporaries in Rome , where he studied and collaborated with Pompeo Batoni. It was probably while under Batoni's influence that Dance developed the use of the highly pitched colours that became his trademark , and which help convey this engagingly direct image of a gentleman at leisure.
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