1718 – 1793

Swedish painter and pastellist, active in Germany and France. He trained with Lars Ehrenbill (1697-1747), a draughtsman employed by the Admiralty in Malmö, and in Stockholm under Georg Engelhardt Schröder (1684-1750), a portrait painter working in the tradition of Hyacinthe Rigaud and Nicolas de Largillière. In 1741 Roslin moved to Göteborg, but the following year he returned to Malmö, where he executed devotional works for the parish church of Hasslöv, Halland, and began establishing himself as a portrait painter.Show more

4 artworks in collection