Johan Henrik Scheffel, oil on canvas not signed
80,5x65 cm
Wear due to age and use. Relined canvas.Yellowed/thick varnish. Crazing. Scratches. Retouches.
Colonel Otto von Knorring, Västerås.
Sixten Strömbom, "Index of Swedish portraits 1500-1850", Stockholm 1935, volume I, recorded p. 277 (1932: 105).
Stig Roth, "The portrait painter Johan Henrik Scheffel, his life and work", Gothenburg 1936, occupied p. 251-252 as cat. No. 167 (counterpart to portrait cat. No. 506, depicting her husband the chamberlain Baron Ulrik Alexander Stromberg).
Later inscription on verso:
Baroness Mrs. Barbro Fleming.
Nata (born) 1699 16 December.
J: H: Scheffel
1731