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Nathaniel Dance-Holland
1735May, 8

Nathaniel Dance-Holland

Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter and politician (d. 1811)
Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, 1st Baronet (8 May 1735 – 15 October 1811) was a notable English portrait painter and later a politician.

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