(1662 - 1735)
David Richter the elder, after whose portrait this print was made, was born in Stockholm. He was apprenticed to the German painter David Klöker Ehrenstrahl in Stockholm (as were portrait painters Hans Hysing and Michael Dahl). He is thought to have visited Rome in 1679. In the 1690s Richter left Sweden to paint portraits and landscapes at German courts, working as a court painter in Dresden and Berlin, before settling at Vienna, where he died.
