Swedish artist around 1700. Portrait of field marshal count axel sparre wearing blue coat of arms with gold buttons, white linden scarf, ring collar with karl xii's name cipher under royal crown - standing hip portrait. Oil on doubled canvas, 98 x 75 cm. Possibly executed after a self-portrait in miniature by a young axel sparre. Registered in the swedish portrait archive (spa)
provenance:
lord chamberlain count johan sparre (1856-1938), bro-gård castle, bro parish, uppsala county, uppland, subsequently inherited within the same family to date
literature:
swedish castles and manors at the beginning of the 20th century, uppland, stockholm 1909, nordic family book, illustrated page 284, mentioned page 285,
sixten strömbom: index of swedish portraits 1500-1750 in the swedish portrait archive's collections, vol. Ii, 1939, mentioned page 768. Field marshal count axel sparre (1652-1728) was one of charles xii's closest friends. Son of axel carlsson sparre and margareta, née oxenstierna af korsholm and wasa and half-brother of erik sparre af sundby. Axel sparre participated in charles xii's campaigns 1700–1709 in the great nordic war, including the battle of düna, the battle of kliszów, the battle of fraustadt and the battle of poltava. Sparre then accompanied the monarch to bender and took command of the swedish army there after karl xii returned to sweden. Sparre was active as an artist and is represented at, among others, the national museum in stockholm. Date: 1 January 1700.
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