A Member of the Fownes Family
Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659 - London 1743)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1700 - 1710
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
970 x 840 x 60 mm
Order this imageCollection
Dunster Castle, Somerset
NT 726081
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Member of the Fownes Family by Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1656 – London 1743), 1700-10. A painted oval portrait, almost half length to right, wearing a brown coat, white cravat and short full-bottomed wig.
Provenance
In Dunster Castle 1910 inventory, p. 41 as in Dining Room and as Mr. Fownes; and thence by descent; previously on loan, 1975; gift of Lt-Col Geoffrey Walter Fownes Luttrell (1919 – 2007) to the National Trust in 1981
Marks and inscriptions
Note on back - Nathaniel Hone
Makers and roles
Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659 - London 1743)
References
Nisser 1927 Wilhelm Nisser, Michael Dahl and the Contemporary Swedish School of Painting in England, Uppsala, 1927, p. 45, no. 148