Portrait painter Alexander Roslin (1718-1793)

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Alexander Roslin, rarely Roslin [1] (Swedish: Alexander Roslin, July 15, 1718, Malmö - July 5, 1793, Paris) was a Swedish portrait artist who worked mainly in Paris from the 1750s.

Roslin's wife, Marie-Suzanne (1734-1772), was also a portrait painter who worked in pastel pencils.

A Swede originally from Malmö, he received his artistic education in Paris, where subsequently (in 1754), for the portrait of d'Anjavilliers presented to the Academy of Arts, he was accepted into its membership, and in 1765, for a family portrait of the Duke of Rochefoucauld, he was awarded the first prize , despite the fact that the famous Dreams was a contender for it along with him.

He was especially skilled in depicting fabrics, lace, embroidery and other accessories; the heads in his portraits were lifeless and uncolorful. Nevertheless, he was revered by the Parisian public and painted a huge number of portraits of prominent people of his time.

Having visited in 1776-77. Petersburg, here he executed several portraits of members of the imperial family and representatives of the Russian aristocracy: Ivan Ivanovich Betsky, Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov and others. After Russia, he went back to Paris, where he died in 1793.