Olof Arenius
Olof Arenius (16 December 1701 – 5 May 1766) was a Swedish portrait painter.
Life
Arenius, the son of a minister in Upland, was born in 1701. He studied under David von Krafft, and then went to the Netherlands to study the old masters. His portraits and miniatures in oil are much esteemed, and are to be found in all the public galleries, as well as in the best private collections, in Sweden. Many of them have been engraved. He died at Stockholm in 1766.
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- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Arenius, Olov". In Graves, Robert Edmund. Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
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