[2] Lucas the younger married Johanna Cornelia Piper and they had five children, with Carl born on 16 August 1759.

The same year he saw his first royal portrait, one of Duchess Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte, sister-in-law to King Gustavus III.

"[2] Breda had married at age 22 and he and his wife had at least one son, so instead of the usual young artist's trip to Paris and Rome, he chose to go to London, where his family could accompany him.

[2] Breda painted a portrait of Reynolds, which was his diploma picture for his admission to the Stockholm Academy of Arts in 1791.

[2] Breda established a London studio in St James's Street and quickly became a popular portraitist with "learned men and literati" and "many lovely ladies".

According to Asplund, his "bold, spirited brushwork, which he had learnt in England, aroused admiration in Sweden" and his finest portraits were painted in 1797 and 1798 and sees the dawn of Romanticism in his later works.

[2] These include paintings of his father Lucas, two of his nephews, the scholar and humanist Nils von Rosenstein, and the singer Teresa Vandoni.

[2] Breda received official commissions: after the monarchy fell in 1809, he painted a series of portraits of the "four Estates of the Realm" from 1811 on, and in 1812 he was ennobled.

[2] A similar commission to paint the coronation of Gustav IV Adolf's Uncle, Charles XIII also was delayed repeatedly.

Breda had difficulties finding a suitable studio to work in, and when he finally did, had to vacate it after two years for the sculptor Johan Niclas Byström.

The Swedish Parliament refused a grant to complete the painting in 1818 and Breda died soon after of a cerebral hemorrhage, on 1 December.