Per Krafft the Younger

At age 18, he was honored with a commission for a portrait of the powerful French politician, Francois-Emmanuel Guignard de Saint-Priest.

[3] Shortly after, under the influence of Louis Masreliez, he went to Paris, where he became a student of Neoclassical painter Jacques-Louis David.

[4][5][6] In 1801, for a major Academy exhibition in Stockholm, Krafft sent home three works: Belisarius, a smiling Cupid, and Paris as a shepherd; all composed in neoclassical style.

In 1802 he traveled to Italy, where he drew cityscapes, studied the Old Masters and made copies of Raphael.

In 1808, he was chosen as a Deputy Professor at the Academy and, following the death of Carl Frederik von Breda in 1818, was promoted to a full Professor of Drawing; a position he held until 1856 [3] During his career, Krafft painted more than 400 portraits, including 60 drawings, and hundreds of other works.