Baron Bengt Horn as a Roman General

Baron Bengt Horn as a Roman General

ca 1662

Oil on canvas

Mått 223,00 x 139,00 cm Ram 235,00 x 149,00 x 9,00 cm

GKM 1877

Purchase, 1971

Baron Bengt Horn af Åminne (1623–1678) was one of the Swedish Empire’s most powerful men: field marshal, councillor, diplomat, and owner of Ekebyholm Castle, not far from Stockholm. In David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl’s portrait, Horn is depicted à l’antique, as a Roman general in parcel-gilt armour and a red cloak, his hand on his sword. The portrait was painted as a companion piece to that of Ingeborg Baner, Bengt Horn’s second wife. They had wed on 16 September 1662 and lived at Ekebyholm Castle. The two portraits were painted probably in 1662, shortly after David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl returned to Sweden after a long study trip abroad. Per Dahlström from The Collection Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg 2014

Bengt Horn and Ingeborg Banér, Ekebyholm Count Arvid Horn, Stockholm Bukowskis, Stockholm, auction 14-16 December 1922, no. 12 Purchased at the Axel Wenner-Gren auction at the Galerie de Chartres, Tableaux anciens, Chartres, 5 December 1971, no. 41

Kristoffer Arvidsson, Per Dahlström, Björn Fredlund, Anna Hyltze, Philippa Nanfeldt, Isabella Nilsson, Johan Sjöström, Samlingen Göteborgs konstmuseum, red. Kristoffer Arvidsson, Per Dahlström, Anna Hyltze, Göteborgs konstmuseum, Göteborg 2014., p. 77, ill. p. 77