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David Klocker Ehrenstrahl Charles XI of Sweden oil painting on canvas

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Charles XI of Sweden
Technique Oil on canvas Dimensions 290 ?? 276 cm
Painting ID::  68288



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David Klocker Ehrenstrahl
German, 1629-1698,Swedish nobleman and portrait painter who in 1652, at twenty-four years of age, at the request of Carl Gustaf Wrangel, moved to Skokloster Castle, from his art studies in the Netherlands. Between 1654 and 1661 he studied in Italy and visited the courts of both France and England. On his return he became entitled Court painter. He was raised to the nobility in 1674 and became court indendant in 1690. Mikael Dahl and David von Krafft as well as his daughter Anna Maria (born 1666) can be found among his pupils. The allegoric great hall ceiling fresco, named The Great Deeds of The Swedish Kings, in the Swedish House of Knights, made between 1670 and 1675, is considered to be his greatest work. A second version was made in Drottningholm Palace, the home of the Swedish Royal Family, in 1695. The Drottningholm fresco, also became the motive of the 1000th and ever largest postage stamp by Czeslaw Slania, the Polish
Charles XI of Sweden
Technique Oil on canvas Dimensions 290 ?? 276 cm

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| The square in Sulmona | Sermon and Deeds of the Antichrist | Orpheus | The Burial of the Sardine | Pearl of Grief |


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