George Dance the Younger

Pencil on laid paper

15 x 17.5 cm.; 6 x 7 ¼ inches

Provenance

Sabin Galleries Ltd., “The Sublime and Beautiful’, 1973, no. 88

The artist was an architect and surveyor as well as an artist, the fifth and youngest son of the architect George Dance the Elder, from a family of architects, artists and dramatists. His brother Nathaniel Dance (Dance-Holland) was also a painter and later a politician. Both brothers were founder members of the Royal Academy in 1768. There has been confusion over the authorship of some of the caricatures with which both brothers are associated.