Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue
Nathaniel Dance (later Sir Nathaniel Holland, Bt) (1735-1811), Painter
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
1760
A self portrait for his actor brother, James Love Dance, was proposed while Dance was in Rome (Dance letters, 2 November and 17 December 1760; RIBA).
1764
Drawing by Angelica Kauffmann, half length, porte-crayon in right hand. Victoria and Albert Museum (Vallardi sketchbook, E.384.1927, no.40; illus. Burlington Magazine , CXIX, 1977, p 109). Dance was a close friend of Kauffmann in Rome, and the identification appears plausible.
c.1773
Painting, self portrait, see NPG 3626.
c.1800
Painting, self portrait, half length, white hair. Sotheby’s 21 March 1945, lot 85, from the collection of Mary Sibyll Dance (see Connoisseur, LXV, 1923, p 30; letters in NPG archive). The features may be reconciled with those in NPG 3626 and Dance was still occasionally painting as late as 1807 (Joseph Farington, Diary, 2 November 1807).
Doubtful Portraits
Bust-length ‘self portrait’, exhibited Third and concluding exhibition of National Portraits (fortieth year of the reign of George the third to MDCCCLXVII), South Kensington, 1868 (770) lent Lady Abinger.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.
A self portrait for his actor brother, James Love Dance, was proposed while Dance was in Rome (Dance letters, 2 November and 17 December 1760; RIBA).
1764
Drawing by Angelica Kauffmann, half length, porte-crayon in right hand. Victoria and Albert Museum (Vallardi sketchbook, E.384.1927, no.40; illus. Burlington Magazine , CXIX, 1977, p 109). Dance was a close friend of Kauffmann in Rome, and the identification appears plausible.
c.1773
Painting, self portrait, see NPG 3626.
c.1800
Painting, self portrait, half length, white hair. Sotheby’s 21 March 1945, lot 85, from the collection of Mary Sibyll Dance (see Connoisseur, LXV, 1923, p 30; letters in NPG archive). The features may be reconciled with those in NPG 3626 and Dance was still occasionally painting as late as 1807 (Joseph Farington, Diary, 2 November 1807).
Doubtful Portraits
Bust-length ‘self portrait’, exhibited Third and concluding exhibition of National Portraits (fortieth year of the reign of George the third to MDCCCLXVII), South Kensington, 1868 (770) lent Lady Abinger.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.