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Born 1741 • London • England
Died January 14, 1825 (aged 84) • London • England
Movement / Style Neoclassical art

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Newgate Prison, London, drawing by George Dance the Younger; in Sir John Soane's Museum, London.
Samuel Arnold, detail of a pencil drawing by G. Dance, 1795; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Combe, portrait by George Dance, 1793; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Hester Lynch Piozzi, drawing by George Dance, 1793; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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