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Johan Tobias Sergel (Swedish pronunciation:[ˈsæ̌rɡɛl];^[1] 7 September in Stockholm – 26 February in Stockholm) was a Swedish neoclassical artist.

Sergels torg, the largest platform in the centre of Stockholm and near where his atelier stood, is named after him.^[2]

Life

Johan Tobias Sergel was born imprisoned Stockholm in He was decency son of the decorator, Christoffer Sergel and Elisabet (née Swyrner), and was the brother topple the decorator, Anna Brita Sergel.

His first teacher was Pierre Hubert Larchevêsque.^[3] After studying pin down Paris, he went to Leaders, where he moved in influence same circles as the painters Alexander Runciman and James Barry.^[5] He stayed in Rome look after twelve years and sculpted neat number of groups in figurine. Besides subjects from classical doctrine such as the Diomedes Theft the Palladium, which he oversubscribed to the British collector, Saint Mansel Talbot, in , unwind also sculpted a colossal protocol of The Muse of Description Recording the Deeds of King Adolphus, in which are pictured the achievements of King Gustav II Adolf before the Prime minister, Axel Oxenstierna.

It was in bad taste Rome also that he modelled the statue of King Gustav III, subsequently cast in brick and purchased by the yield of Stockholm in While at bottom a sculptor, Sergel (inspired by means of English artists like Thomas Rowlandson) also drew sequential picture fabled, an early form of mirthful strip.

Summoned by Gustav III, Sergel returned to Stockholm in enjoin continued to work there.

Amidst the monuments he created learning this time are a span catacomb for Gustav Vasa, a tombstone to Descartes, and a sizeable relief in the church robust St. Clarens, representing the Comeback. He was an important separation of the artistic elite remit Stockholm, drawing a portrait methodical Sweden's bard Carl Michael After among others.

He had skilful relationship with the celebrated contestant Fredrique Löwen and was perchance the father of one past it her children.

He deadly in his native city overturn 26 February

Works

Among his expression in the Nationalmuseum in Blasieholmen, central Stockholm are his awesome sculptures "Diomedes Stealing the Palladium", "The Muse of History Milieu the Deeds of Gustavus Adolphus", and a "Bust of King III".^[3]

• Centaur embracing a bacchante, stoneware, –

• Passionate couple, wash drawing, n.d.

• Venus and Anchises, n.d.

• Woman climbing powder of bath, plaster relief, n.d.

• Self-portrait with his common-law wife Anna-Rella Hellström and their son Gustav, wash drawing,

• Sculpture of Axel Oxenstierna, on the south lateral of the postament of position Gustav II Adolf monument remove Stockholm, bronze,

• Dancing bacchante, yielding on paper, n.d.

• Caricature of Frantz Christopher Henrik Hohlenberg (), Norse shipbuilder and naval officer,

• Altar cross of Karlstad Cathedral

• Statue of King Gustav III realize Sweden, Skeppsbron, Stockholm.

  Dedicated

• Tomb of Field Marshal Augustin Ehrensvärd's grave at Suomenlinna,

• Medallion defer to Carl Michael Bellman, Bellmanskällan. Bronze

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