Georg Engelhard Schröder

Schroder's father, Veit Engelhard Schröder (died 1710), was a goldsmith from the German city of Nuremberg.

In his early years he studied under the painter David von Krafft (1655–1724), only leaving his studio in 1703 to travel abroad.

He began with time in northern Germany before moving to Italy, where he stayed five years in Venice, copying old masters, painting views of the city and coming into contact with the pastellist Rosalba Carriera (1675–1757).

In December 1724, after the death of David von Krafft, Schröder was ordered back to Sweden to take over from his old teacher as court portraitist.

In the 1740s Gustaf Lundberg (1695–1786) brought a new French-influenced style to Sweden and demand for Schroder's worked dropped - this meant he was one of the last 18th-century Swedish painters whose predominant influence was Italian art.