Double Portrait of Carl Bernhard Wadstrom and Prince Peter Panah
by Carl Frederik von Breda
Title
Double Portrait of Carl Bernhard Wadstrom and Prince Peter Panah
Artist
Carl Frederik von Breda
Medium
Painting - Oil Painting
Description
Double Portrait of Carl Bernhard Wadstrom and Prince Peter Panah by Carl Frederik von Breda, 1789.
Carl Frederik von Breda was a Swedish painter who studied in and spent much of his career in Britain before becoming painter to the Swedish court. He was born in Stockholm in 1759, and moved to Britain where he was a student of Joshua Reynolds. Breda specialized in painting portraits and was called "the van Dyck of Sweden". He returned to Sweden 1796 where he became Professor at the Academy of Arts, a popular portraitist, and a court painter. Breda married at age 22 and his son, Johan Fredrik, was also a painter, who studied under his father. Breda died in Stockholm in 1818.
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