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The sitter was the daughter of Doctor Cornelis Dalen, Director of the Hortus Botanicus in Leyden, (1766-1852) and Johanna Maria van Casteel (1771-1805). A copy is an private collection Belgium (photograph in the Iconografisch Bureau, The Hague).
Little is known about the artist, who specialized in portrait miniatures and who was active in Rotterdam.
Little is known about the artist, who specialized in portrait miniatures and who was active in Rotterdam.