Johann Georg Dathan

Black-and-white reproduction of a portrait of Paul Egell

Johann Georg Dathan was born at Mannheim in 1703. He excelled in painting portraits and historical subjects. 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.

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This article incorporates text from the article "DATHAN, Georg" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.