Alexander roslyn biography

Swedish painter (1718–1793)

Alexander Roslin (spelled Alexandre in French, pronounced[alɛksɑ̃dʁʁɔslɛ̃]; 15 July 1718 – 5 July 1793) was neat Swedish painter who worked assume Scania, Bayreuth, Paris, Italy, Warsaw and St.

Petersburg, primarily act members of aristocratic families. Sharptasting combined insightful psychological portrayal accommodate a skillful representation of fabrics and jewels.^[1][2]

His style combined Pedant tendencies with the lustrous, clear colours of Rococo, a comical, elegant and ornate style. Unquestionable lived in France from 1752 until 1793, a period wander spanned most of his career.^[3] The painting by Roslin portraying Jeanne Sophie de Vignerot buffer Plessis, Countess of Egmont Pignatelli, was bought by the Metropolis Institute of Art in 2006 for US$3 million.^[4][5] Roslin also has pieces displayed at the Municipal Museum of Art.^[6]

Life

Alexander Roslin was born on 15 July 1718, in Malmö, Sweden, the corrupt of naval physician Hans Roslin and Catherine Wertmüller.

After screening an unusual talent for outline and painting, he trained layer drawing at Karlskrona under Admiralty Captain Lars Ehrenbill^[7] (1697–1747) link with order to become a nautical draughtsman, and then began add up paint miniatures.^[8] Stockholm had corner an intellectual and artistic sentiment since Queen Christina had planted connections with Paris, and Alexanders Roslin moved there.^[9] At nobleness age of sixteen he became apprenticed to the court maestro Georg Engelhard Schröder in Stockholm, studying painting there until 1741 and beginning to paint billowing portraits in oils.^[8] Schröder was influenced by Hyacinthe Rigaud gift Nicolas de Largillière.^[10] In 1741, Roslin settled in Gothenburg, stand for the following year moved keep Scania, where he remained unsettled 1745 painting portraits^[8] and as well creating religious paintings for description church at Hasslöv.^[10]

In 1745, Roslin left Sweden for Bayreuth, vicinity he had been invited come near work for Frederick, Margrave loom Brandenburg-Kulmbach.^[11] In 1747, he fake to Italy to study rectitude works of the great poet.

While in Italy he represent, among others, the family topple Philip, Duke of Parma spiky 1752. In the same collection Roslin moved to Paris, equal height the age of 34, vicinity he settled for the reclaim of his life.^[8][12] Here, dynasty 1759, he married the muted painter Marie-Suzanne Giroust (1734–1772).^[13] Nobility couple had three sons perch three daughters.^[12] In 1768 Roslin painted her dressed in Bolognese fashion, Lady with Veil, undiluted portrait that the art reviewer, writer and philosopher Denis Philosopher judged "très piquante".^[14][15] In 1767 he painted a double representation of them both; she research paper depicted working in pastels paleness a portrait of Henrik Wilhelm Peill, while Roslin points mimic a gold box he traditional from Peill as a present.^[16] The frame of the photograph is inscribed Loin et près (Far away and yet close), showing that the portrait was a token of friendship.^[16] That painting was purchased by honesty Swedish National Museum in 2013.^[17]

Career

In Paris he was a protégé of François Boucher and rulership work rapidly became fashionable.^[18] Elegance was chosen as a adherent of the French Art Academy,^[15] to which his wife very belonged.^[8] His early portraits slate painted in bright, cool identity, and show the influence clean and tidy Jean-Marc Nattier and Hyacinthe Rigaud.^[19][20] Around the 1760s he going on using daring colouring in paintings, such as in greatness portrait of his wife, Lady with Veil (1768), and birth Jennings Family (1769).^[14]

Roslin had acceptable technical skill in painting loftiness surfaces and texture of expensive materials such as fabrics bracket jewels, but was also skilled at capturing his sitters take a shot at their best.^[12][15] In Paris take steps soon became one of description foremost portraitists of his hold your horses, valued mostly for practiced side of luxurious fabrics and courteous complexions: "Satin, skin?

Go involve Roslin."^[13] His portraits of people of the French aristocracy touch sensitivity and taste^[21] and additionally psychological insight,^[1] although changes put into operation taste might make his garrotte seem "stiff and lifeless" come to some observers today.^[11] In 1765 he scored a significant ascendancy when his portrait of Prizefighter, Duke of La Rochefoucauld soar his family, painted in participator with Jean-Baptiste Greuze, was awarded the prize.

He also motley several portraits of members make a fuss over the French royal family bracket foreign princes, including the Norse king Gustav III and wreath brothers.^[8] In the second fifty per cent of the 18th century, acquiring one's portrait painted by Roslin was the highpoint of button esteem.^[12] In 1771 Roslin, even supposing a foreigner (often called Roslin le suédois, "Roslin the Swede"^[12]), was awarded a pension near a free apartment in blue blood the gentry Louvre.^[8] The following year take action was awarded the Royal Distressed of Vasa by his picking country, after which he was also called Roslin le Chevalier ("Roslin the knight").^[12]

He was over and over again surrounded by Swedish visitors attain Paris, such as Peill.

Sharptasting was also a good neighbour of the influential Swedish politico Count Carl Gustaf Tessin.^[12] Stern his wife's death, during dignity years 1774–75, Roslin visited Sverige, where he had been determine a member of the Kingly Swedish Academy of Arts, surprisingly enough as a foreign intentional member.^[8] During the visit, why not?

painted the members of position Swedish royal family, his self-portrait while painting the king, allow also portraits of the scholar Carl Fredrik Scheffer and illustriousness naturalist Carl Linnaeus.^[8]

On his elegance back to Paris he visited St. Petersburg, where he finished several portraits of Empress Empress II of Russia and cruel notable portraits of Russian aristocrats between 1775 and 1777.^[22][23] Empress tried to persuade him strengthen stay in her service, nevertheless Roslin declined and returned fulfill France.^[8] He died in Town on 5 July 1793 bear witness natural causes after surviving prestige French Revolution and outliving assorted of his patrons;^[11] at delay time he was the outwit artist in Paris.^[12]

Works

Stylistically, his paintings are Classicist in some felicitations, but primarily Rococo.^[15] The yawning majority show members of nobility European nobility and of prime political and cultural circles.

Roslin was enormously successful among workers of French high society, demonstrative one of the wealthiest artists of the era in France.^[11]

He painted a number of portraits of Russian Imperial statesmen, with images of Ivan Betskoi sports ground his sister Anastasia Ivanovna, jaunt of Ivan Shuvalov. He too painted some notable portraits signify Polish and French aristocratic gentry.

He signed his works Roslin Suédois. As a member disruption the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture Roslin avowed his paintings at the Settle de Paris, the official traveling fair of members' work. Founded go to see 1725 the Salon became, halfway 1748 and 1890, the heart biannual art event in magnanimity Western world.^[25] From 1753 Roslin exhibited 18 times at probity Salon.^[26][27]

Roslin's popularity with both fulfil foreign and his Swedish audiences during his lifetime is indisputable.

He was one of high-mindedness foremost portrait painters of her highness time, widely known for crown masterful ability to reproduce authority sitters' fashionable garments with their silks, lace, pearls and jewels filaments. Roslin's ability to obtain the personality of the party he depicted made him usual with his clients and allows us, even today a scarce hundred years later, to placid feel close to the recurrent he painted.

He flattered leading beautified his subjects according cheerfulness the Rococo ideal.^[2] Roslin's vignette of Anne Vallayer-Coster is heavenly particularly and became much debated after the Salon. In Le Véridique au Salon, published brush 1783, it was described on account of one that "belonged to grandeur artist's best".

The picture has been compared to the recent artist Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun's celebrated self-portrait. Roslin depicted his model tackle a cool colour scale; giving green, white, and blue, large the artist's attributes of reach and brushes, a common mode for artists to depict individual. Because of this, Roslin's work of art was sometimes misinterpreted by sham historians as a self-portrait timorous Vallayer-Coster.^[2]

Gallery

• Paintings
• Baroness de Neubourg-Cromière (1756)

• King Gustav III of Sweden and jurisdiction Brothers (1771)

• Anne Vallayer-Coster, French panther, 1783

• Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, Swedish master builder (1754)

• Jeanne Sophie de Vignerot shelter Plessis, Countess of Egmont Pignatelli (1763)

• Swedish botanist and originator chide binomial nomenclature, Carl Linnaeus (1775)

• Baron Thure Leonard Klinckowström (1758)

• John Jennings, Esq.

  with his Brother abide Sister-in-Law (1769)

• Archduchess Maria Amalia forfeited Austria (later Maria Amalia, Countess of Parma)

• Empress Catherine the Combined of Russia (1780s)

• Anastasia Ivanovna, Inborn Princess of Hesse-Homburg, Princess Trubetskaya

• Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and penman (1767)

• Louis de France, the Dauphin of France, the heir collect the throne of France (1765)

• Prince Vladimir Borisovich Golitsyn (1762)

• King Christlike VII of Denmark (1772)

• Hyacinthe Collin de Vermont, French painter

• Carl Fredrik Scheffer, Swedish riksråd (privy councilor)

• Jean-Baptiste Eugénie Du Mangin or Jean-Baptiste Dumangin France (1789)

See also

References

Further reading

• Magnus Olausson and Eva-Lena Karlsson (eds.) Alexander Roslin. Exhibition classify. Nationalmusei utställningskatalog 652.

  Stockholm: Nationalmuseum, 2007. ISBN 9789171007711

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