Samuel Child (1693-1752)
Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659 - London 1743)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1730 - 1743
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
772 x 640 mm
Place of origin
London
Collection
Osterley Park and House, London
NT 773380
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Samuel Child (1693-1752) by Michael Dahl (1656/9-1743), circa 1730. A painted oval half-length portrait, of the youngest son of Sir Francis Child the Elder, wearing a brown coat and powdered wig. See NT 773379 for a portrait of the same sitter by John Vanderbank, and NT 773378 for a portrait by Dahl of Samuel's brother Sir Francis Child the younger. He married Agatha Edgar in 1730 and in 1757 he bought Upton Park (NT) in Warwickshire
Provenance
Recorded at Osterley Park in 1915; on loan from the Earldom of Jersey Trust.
Makers and roles
Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659 - London 1743), artist