Carl Peter Lehmann

Carl Peter Lehmann (10 October 1794, Copenhagen - 3 September 1876, Sigtuna) was a Danish-Swedish portrait painter who also worked in Norway.

His father was a musician with a travelling theatrical troupe and he apparently worked as a handyman, although some sources also describe him as an acrobat.

In 1817, after marrying a dancer named Sophie Pershey, he left the troupe to set up his own painting school in Bergen and applied for citizenship there.

After Johan Georg Müller [no] died that same year, Lehmann took over his position as a decorative painter for Det Dramatiske Selskab.

In 1826, the landscape painter, Johan Christian Dahl, made his now-famous painting trip through Norway.