Baron Gustaf Adam von Nolcken (1733-1813) Swedish Ambassador to Great Britain
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About the work
- Location
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Country: Sweden
City: Stockholm
Place: British Embassy
A loyal friend of King Gustaf III, Baron Gustaf von Nolcken was appointed Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of St James in 1763. He declined promotion in 1793 to stay in London and continued to live there without a position until his death.
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About the artist
John Downman was born near Ruabon, Wales. He was a pupil of Benjamin West from 1768 and entered the Royal Academy Schools the following year, exhibiting at the Academy from 1770. He travelled to Italy and was in Rome from 1773 to 1774. From 1777 to 1778 he was at Cambridge, where he began a series of portrait drawings and painted small portrait heads in oils. In c.1776 he began his annotated 'albums' of portrait drawings, from which he could execute repetitions. From 1779 to 1804 he was settled in London, but later travelled considerably. In 1806, he married in Exeter, but left after his wife died in 1808. He was again mainly in London before settling in Chester in 1817. However, he died in Wrexham, having returned to Wales.
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Explore
- Places
- Subjects
- male portrait, Swedish, man, 18th century costume, wig, cravat, ribbon (as Subject - costume accessory), badge, Baron, ambassadors & diplomats
- Materials & Techniques
- canvas, oil, oil painting
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Details
- Artist
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John Downman (1750 - 1824)
- Title
- Baron Gustaf Adam von Nolcken (1733-1813) Swedish Ambassador to Great Britain
- Date
- 1780
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- height: 61.00 cm, width: 51.00 cm
- Acquisition
- Presented by Harald Stjarnsward, September 1948
- Inscription
- cr: J Downman / Pinxt / 1780 ; verso (in later hand): GUSTAF ADAM v. NOLCKEN / f 1733 f 1813
- Provenance
- Presented by Harald Stjarnsward, September 1948
- GAC number
- 648