Henry Robartes, 3rd Earl Of Radnor
Henry Robartes, 3rd Earl of Radnor (c. 1695 – February 1741) was an English landowner, Earl of Radnor in the peerage of Great Britain and a member of the House of Lords from 1723 until his death. Early life and family Robartes was the first son of Russell Robartes (1671–1719), by his marriage to Lady Mary Booth, a daughter of Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington. He had a brother and two sisters. His father was a younger son of Robert Robartes, Viscount Bodmin, the eldest son and heir of John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor. In 1723 he succeeded his father’s older brother Charles Robartes, 2nd Earl of Radnor, in his peerages and estates. He spent little time at Lanhydrock House, his country seat in Cornwall, and when it was visited by the antiquary John Loveday he found it in a sorry state. Dying unmarried in Paris in 1741, Radnor was succeeded in his peerages by an older unmarried cousin, John Robartes, but left his property to a nephew, George Hunt, the son of his siste ...
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Michael Dahl
Michael Dahl (1659–1743) was a Swedish portrait painter who lived and worked in England most of his career and died there. He was one of the most internationally known Swedish painters of his time. He painted portraits of many aristocrats and some members of royal families, such as Anne, Queen of Great Britain, Queen Anne of Great Britain, Prince George of Denmark and the exiled Christina, Queen of Sweden, Queen Christina of Sweden. Childhood Michael Dahl was born in Stockholm, in 1656 or 1659: most of the sources point to 1659.Nationalencyklopedin
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2012-03-12 (Swedish)Wilhelm Nisser, ''Michael Dahl and the Contemporary Swedish School of Painting in England'' (Almqvist & Wiksell) 1927:2. ...
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