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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
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Painting ID:: 81385
Portrait of Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden
Date 1686(1686)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 145 x 112 cm (57.1 x 44.1 in)
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Painting ID:: 81472
Selfportrait with Allegories
Date 17th century
Medium Oil on wood
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Painting ID:: 82498
Karl XI
1676(1676)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 290 x 276 cm (114.2 x 108.7 in)
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Painting ID:: 85423
Portrait of Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden
1686(1686)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 145 x 112 cm (57.1 x 44.1 in)
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Painting ID:: 85474
Self-portrait
17th century
Medium Oil on wood
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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
. Related Artists to David Klocker Ehrenstrahl: | Zayn AL Din | SOMER, Paulus van | Paggi, Giovanni Battista | Frans de Momper | Jacob van der Does |
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