Police Surgeon Johan Frederik Rost. The Artist's Family Doctor and Friend, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1831

Johan frederik rost (. . - 1843) was a police doctor and also a keen amateur musician and played chamber music together with eckersberg. The two men apparently met each other for the first time in connection with a medical consultation on 12 june 1818 (diaries, vol. 1, p. 145). Rost is first mentioned as "our friend" on 14 june 1820 (ibid. , p. 171). After this, he is mentioned very frequently in the diary until his death in 1843 (ibid. , p. 997). Object Type: painting. Genre: portrait. Date: 1831. Dimensions: height: 785 mm (30.90 in); width: 600 mm (23.62 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Statens Museum for Kunst. CW Eckersberg, Politilæge Johan Frederik Rost Kunstnerens huslæge og ven, 1831, KMS1509, Statens Museum for Kunst