Carl Frederik von Breda
Swedish portrait painter
Died when: 59 years 107 days (711 months)Star Sign: Leo
Carl Frederik von Breda (16 August 1759 – 1 December 1818) was a Swedish painter who studied in and spent much of his career in Britain before becoming painter to the Swedish court.
He was born in Stockholm in 1759, and moved to Britain where he was a student of Joshua Reynolds.Breda specialized in painting portraits and was called "the van Dyck of Sweden".
He returned to Sweden 1796 where he became professor at the Academy of Arts, a popular portraitist, and a court painter.
Breda married at age 22 and his son, Johan Fredrik, was also a painter, who studied under his father.Breda died in Stockholm in 1818.
Breda painted James Watt.
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