JOHAN HENRIK SCHEFFEL, Oil on canvas. Unsigned.
Baroness Barbro Fleming af Lieblitz (1699-1747). Relined canvas 80.5 x 65 cm. According to text verso executed in 1731.
Relined canvas, Surface dirt, varnish, crazings, scratchmarks, scattered retouches.
Colonel Otto von Knorring, Västerås, Sweden.
Sixten Strömbom, "Index över svenska porträtt 1500-1850", Stockholm 1935, Volume I, listed p. 277 (1932:105).
Stig Roth, "Porträttmålaren Johan Henrik Scheffel, hans liv och verk", Göteborg 1936, listed p. 251-252 as catalogue no 167 (pendant to portrait catalogue no 506, depicting her husband Baron Ulrik Alexander Stromberg).
Later text on verso:
Friherinnan (Baroness) fru (Mrs) Barbro Fleming.
Nata (born) 1699 16 december.
J:H:Scheffel
1731