Lorenz Pasch the Younger (1733–1805)

• Was a Swedish painter.
• His father Lorens Pasch the Elder wanted him to become a priest.

• He was thus sent to study in Uppsala aged 10.

• However, he decided on an artistic and began an apprenticeship in his father's studio before going to Copenhagen.

• There he studied painting for three years in the studio of Carl Gustaf Pilo.

• He then set off for Paris in 1758 to complete his artistic education.

• There he specialised in history painting in the studios of Eustache Le Sueur and François Boucher and became friends with Alexander Roslin. 

• In 1764 he left Paris and got back to Sweden.

• He had commissions from the royal court and gaining the esteem of Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden and his queen Louisa Ulrika.

• He served as a professor at the Academy of Arts from 1773 to his death.

• Becoming its director on Pilo's death in 1793.

• He died unmarried in 1805.

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