" Gustaf Wittfooth" (1725-1782) & his wife "Christina Wittfooth” (née Brandt) (1727-1771)
Dated 1769. Canvas, each 67 x 54 cm. Contemporary Gustavian frames.
Previously in the Wittfooth collections at Gysinge bruk, Gästrikland. Inherited by Gustaf & Christina Wittfooth's daughter Carolina (married af Ugglas) (1765-1810), married to Samuel af Ugglas (1750-1812), thereafter inherited within the af Ugglas family. Sold through;
Bukowskis Auctions, auction 469, 31 October - 3 November 1989, lot 83.
Gustaf Wittfooth was an industrialist and owned, among others, Gysinge Ironworks in Gästrikland and Högfors Ironworks in Västmanland. With his wife Christina Brandt, he had a daughter, Carolina, who married Samuel af Ugglas, owner of, among other properties, Forsmarks Ironworks in Uppland.