Lorens or Lorenz Pasch the Younger (1733–1805) was a Swedish painter.

Life

He grew up in an artistic family (he was the brother of Ulrika Pasch

Ulrika Pasch

Ulrika Fredrica Pasch , also known as Ulla Pasch, was a Swedish painter and miniaturist. She was one of few female artists known in Scandinavia before the 19th century...

, alongside whom he was elected to the Art Academy in 1773), but his father Lorens Pasch the Elder

Lorens Pasch the Elder

Lorens, Lorenz or Lorentz Pasch the Elder was a Swedish painter and the brother of Johan Pasch.-Life:...

 wanted him to become a priest. He was thus sent to study in Uppsala

Uppsala

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 aged 10. However, he decided on an artistic career after all and began an apprenticeship in his father's studio before going to Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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, with introductions from his wealthy and influential uncle Johan Pasch

Johan Pasch

Johan Pasch was a Swedish painter. He was court painter to the Swedish court from 1748 onwards and hovintendent from 1758 onwards. He was the brother of Lorens Pasch the Elder and uncle to Lorens Pasch the Younger and Ulrika Pasch, all three of whom were also painters.One of his most notable...

. There he studied painting for three years in the studio of Carl Gustaf Pilo

Carl Gustaf Pilo

Carl Gustaf Pilo was a Swedish-born artist and painter, one of many 18th century European artists who had to leave their own country in order to make a living. Pilo worked extensively in Denmark as a painter to the Danish Court and as professor and director at the Royal Danish Academy of Art ,...

. Despite good offers of studio-apprenticeships and commissions from Sweden, he then set off for Paris

Paris

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 in 1758 to complete his artistic education. There he specialised in history painting in the studios of Eustache Le Sueur

Eustache Le Sueur

Eustache Le Sueur or Lesueur , one of the founders of the French Academy of Painting, was born in Paris, where he passed his whole life....

 and François Boucher

François Boucher

François Boucher was a French painter, a proponent of Rococo taste, known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories representing the arts or pastoral occupations, intended as a sort of two-dimensional furniture...

 (though for financial reasons he also continued his training in portraiture) and became friends with fellow-Swede Alexander Roslin

Alexander Roslin

Alexander Roslin was a Swedish portrait painter.-Life:Roslin was born on July 15, 1718, in Malmö, Sweden. In 1759 he married Marie-Suzanne Giroust. He plied his trade in Stockholm, Bayreuth, Vienna, Paris and Italy...

.

In 1764 he left Paris and got back to Sweden in 1766. He fully completed his training in the studio of the French painter Guillaume Taraval

Guillaume Taraval

Guillaume Thomas Taraval was a Swedish painter of French descent.He first came to Sweden in 1732 and was mainly active in the Stockholm Palace. He produced a series of elegant ceiling paintings and introduced the Rococo decorative style to Sweden...

, who in 1735 founded the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts

Royal Swedish Academy of Arts

The Royal Swedish Academy of Arts or Kungl. Akademien för de fria konsterna, founded in 1773 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden...

 in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

. Soon after his arrival back in Sweden Pasch's gained a great reputation as a portraitist, gaining favour and commissions from the royal court and gaining the esteem of Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden and his queen Louisa Ulrika

Louisa Ulrika of Prussia

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 - one of his most notable works is his Portrait of Louisa Ulrika of Prussia. He served as a professor at the Academy of Arts from 1773 to his death, becoming its director on Pilo's death in 1793. At the end of his life he concentrated more on training young artists and managing the Academy than on painting. He died unmarried in 1805 and due to his powerful portraits remains one of the most respected painters of the Gustavian era in Sweden.

Sources

Strömbom, Sixten: Lorens Pasch d.y. Norstedt och söners förlag, 1915. Entry in the Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon

Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon

Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon is a compact Swedish dictionary of biography first published in 1873-1876 by the physician and antiquarian Herman Hofberg . The second, updated edition was published in 1906, under the editorship of Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, and Olof Rubenson...

(1906)