Johan Henrik Scheffel(Sweden, 1690-1781)
JOHAN HENRIK SCHEFFEL, Oil on canvas. Unsigned.
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JOHAN HENRIK SCHEFFEL, Oil on canvas. Unsigned.
Baroness Barbro Fleming af Lieblitz (1699-1747). Relined canvas 80.5 x 65 cm. According to text verso executed in 1731.
Relined canvas, Surface dirt, varnish, crazings, scratchmarks, scattered retouches.
Provenance
Colonel Otto von Knorring, Västerås, Sweden.
Literature
Sixten Strömbom, "Index över svenska porträtt 1500-1850", Stockholm 1935, Volume I, listed p. 277 (1932:105).
Stig Roth, "Porträttmålaren Johan Henrik Scheffel, hans liv och verk", Göteborg 1936, listed p. 251-252 as catalogue no 167 (pendant to portrait catalogue no 506, depicting her husband Baron Ulrik Alexander Stromberg).
More information
Later text on verso:
Friherinnan (Baroness) fru (Mrs) Barbro Fleming.
Nata (born) 1699 16 december.
J:H:Scheffel
1731
