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2 unusual facts about Alexander Roslin


Jean-Martial Frédou

Born at Fontenay-Saint-Père, Frédou was attached to the Cabinet du Roi housed in the Hôtel de la Surintendance at Versailles, where he was commissioned to render duplicates of official portraits of the French royal family painted by Jean-Marc Nattier, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Louis-Michel Van Loo, Alexander Roslin or Joseph Siffred Duplessis.

Matti Silfer

He is known for the performance 'Moving Art', which he created early 2011 in collaboration with choreographer Paul James Rooney, celebrating great Nordic art and artists; including Grieg, H C Lumbye, Roslin and many more.


Johan Edvard Mandelberg

He came to Paris with good recommendations and came into the leading French art circles where he caught the attention and interest of Count Philippe de Caylus, renowned artist François Boucher, and fellow Swede Alexander Roslin (1718–1798).

Övedskloster Manor

It includes furniture made by master cabinet maker Georg Haupt, sculptures by Johan Tobias Sergel and Johan Niclas Byström, and paintings by Niclas Lafrensen, Carl Gustaf Pilo, Per Krafft the Elder and Alexander Roslin, among others.


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