Johann Georg Dathan

Johann Georg Dathan (6 September 1701, in Speyer – 23 March 1749, in Speyer)[1] was a German painter of portraits and historical subjects. He was active in Amsterdam between 1730 and 1736 and Mannheim between 1737 and 1740 before returning to his hometown.[1] One of his best works, an 'Allegory upon the marriage of the Dauphin, son of Louis XV., with the Princess Marie Josephine of Poland,' is in the Dresden Gallery.

Black-and-white reproduction of a portrait of Paul Egell

References
  1. Johann Georg Dathan at the RKD

Notes
  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Dathan, Georg". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.


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