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unusual facts about Elias Brenner


State Herald of Sweden

The first of these regularly employed heraldic artists was Elias Brenner, who produced many of the noble arms found at Riddarhuset.



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Sophia Elisabet Brenner

In 1680, she married the miniaturist painter Elias Brenner and became the first Swedish salon hostess; in her salon, there gathered the Swedish elite such as Aurora Königsmarck, the painter Anna Maria Ehrenstrahl, the poet Johan Runius and Urban Hjärne (who brought to an end the legal persecution of witches).