Olof Arenius
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Self portrait
Painting ID:: 85975 new25/Olof Arenius-694458.jpg
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Olof Arenius
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a Swedish portrait painter, and son of a minister in Upland, was born in 1701. He studied under David von Krafft, and afterwards went to the Netherlands to study the old masters. His portraits and miniatures in oil are much esteemed, and are to be found in all the public galleries, as well as in the best private collections, in Sweden. Many of them have been engraved. He died at Stockholm in 1766.
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Self portrait |
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 36 x 29 cm (14.2 x 11.4 in)
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