Artist

Dance

Dance is a Rococo painting artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Dance hid in plain sight, while other painters chased grand oil skies, this English watercolourist sketched life in a pocket-sized square. He once spent an entire afternoon drawing a friend’s face so slowly the sitter’s tea went cold before the final eyelash. Look past his fancy portraits; flip to Portrait of James Northcote (1775-1820) and watch how he turns a single sheet of paper into a room of its own, light pooling around the sitter like a spotlight.

Works by Dance

Collections represented

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