Prints / Portraits & Caricatures

[Portrait] Sandberg, J[ohan]. G[ustaf] / Cardon, Joh[an]

Carl Johan Fahlcrantz född 1774.

[Stockholm] Tryckt hos Spong & Cardon. Portrait signed] 1836 [Published 1842] 44 x 29,5 cm. Lithograph.

Fine codition.

A celebrated swedish landscape painter who loved to paint his native country in a slightly romantic style. The original was executed by Johan Gustaf Sandberg (1752-1854), painter and professor at the Royal Academy of Arts. Johan Cardon lithographed the portrait. Along with Carl Johan Billmark, he was Sweden´s most eminent lithographer. In 1843 he received the title "Royal lihographer. The present portrait is from the finest of all 19th. century portrait galleries published in Sweden.

Item No: 2047