Per Floding
Per Gustaf Floding (3 March 1731 - 17 October 1791) was a Swedish designer and engraver. He was an instructor at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts.l [1]
Biography
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Floding was born at Stockholm, Sweden. He first trained under Swedish architect and engraver Jean Eric Rehn (1717-1793). In 1755 at sixteen years of age, Floding received local support to travel in Paris to learn engraving and work at the academy under the guidance of several notable painters and engravers. He was instructed by François-Philippe Charpentier (1734-1817) and resided chiefly in Paris. He developed rich talents and with his progress flowed commissions of increasingly more generous benefits. [2] [3] [4]
In 1761, Floding produced engravings including
In 1763, Floding was appointed Royal Majesty Engraver and Garde d' Estampes of Crown Prince and future King
Selected work
He also engraved several plates, both in line and in aquatint, among which are the following:
- The Portrait of Alexander Roslin, painter; after Roslin
- Apollo and Daphne; after F. Boucher.
- Soldiers guarding a Prison; after the same.
- A Girl sleeping, with a Dog by her; after J. B. Deshais.
- Gustavus III., King of Sweden; after L. Pasch.
- A Battle; after Casanova.
References
- ^ "Floding, Per Gustaf". Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon. 1906. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
- ^ "Floding, Per Gustaf". Nordisk familjebok. 1908. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
- ^ Anna Greta Wahlberg. "Johan (Jean) Eric Rehn". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
- ^ "François Philippe Charpentier". British Museum. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
- ^ "Per Gustaf Floding". Nationalmuseum. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
- ^ "Konstakademiens historia". Kungliga Akademien för de fria konsterna. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
Other sources
- Floding, Per Gustaf in Profil (second edition, 1908)
Attribution:
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Floding, Pehr". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
- This article or parts of it are based on the article Floding, Per Gustaf from Swedish biographical hand dictionary (SBH), published in 1906.