Swedish, 1718–1793
Alexander Roslin (1718–1793) was a Swedish portrait painter, born in Malmö. After working in Sweden, Germany and Italy he settled in Paris in 1752, was received into the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1753 and painted the French court and visitors from across Europe. The Lady with the Veil (1768), a portrait of his wife, the pastellist Marie-Suzanne Giroust, is in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. He died in Paris in 1793.
Sources: Wikipedia (en): Alexander Roslin · Wikidata Q315102
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