Carl Fredrik von Breda

Carl Frederik von Breda was a Swedish painter who was also active in England. From the late 1770s, he studied at the Kungliga Akademi för de Fria Konsterna in Stockholm. Von Breda moved to London, where he worked briefly in the studio of Joshua Reynolds. He specialised in portrait painting and began exhibiting annually at the Royal Academy in London from 1788. He returned to Sweden 1796 where he became painter to the Swedish court and a professor at the Academy of Arts.

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