(1678 - 1752/3)
Hans Hysing was born in Stockholm; the son of a goldsmith. He served a three year apprenticeship with a goldsmith, before studying painting under David von Krafft from 1694. In 1700 he moved to London and became a pupil of another Swedish painter, Michael Dahl. In 1711 he joined Kneller’s Academy in Queen Street and from 1720 studied at the St Martin’s Lane Academy. During the following decade Hysing painted increasingly distinguished sitters including Sir Robert Walpole, Arthur Oslow, speaker of the House of Commons, and the eldest daughters of George II. Scottish portraitist Allan Ramsay was his pupil from 1732 to 1733. Hysing witnessed the will of the daughter of Michael Dahl in November 1752, but had died by February the following year.
