Portrait of a gentleman
Signed Wäström and dated pinx 1805. Relined canvas 117 x 88 cm. Period frame.
Johan Gustaf Wäström (Waeström) was born in 1750 - or 1760 probably in Landskrona in Sweden. According to reports, he was educated in Copenhagen by the artist Jens Juel. He travelled to Stralsund and for a long time ha was living in Berlin where he came in 1788. Of his paintings only fifteen portraits is known, dated between the years 1780 and 1807.