Johann Georg Dathan (6 September 1701, in

Speyer Speyer (, older spelling ''Speier'', French: ''Spire,'' historical English: ''Spires''; pfl, Schbaija) is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Located on the left bank of the river Rhine, Speyer li ...

– 23 March 1749, in Speyer)Johann Georg Dathan
at the

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was a German painter of portraits and historical subjects. He was active in

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between 1730 and 1736 and

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between 1737 and 1740 before returning to his hometown. One of his best works, an 'Allegory upon the marriage of the Dauphin, son of Louis XV., with the Princess Marie Josephine of Poland,' is in the

Dresden Gallery Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

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* 1701 births 1749 deaths 18th-century German painters 18th-century German male artists German expatriates in the Netherlands German male painters People from Speyer {{Germany-painter-stub