Georg Engelhard Schröder (1684 – 1750)

• Was a Swedish painter.
• Schroder's father, Veit Engelhard Schröder, was a goldsmith from the German city of Nuremberg.

• In 1670 Veit and his wife Lucia Lindemeyer emigrated to Stockholm, where Georg was born fourteen years later.

• In his early years he studied under the painter David von Krafft.

• In the following twenty-one years Schröder visited most of Europe.

• He began with time in northern Germany before moving to Italy, where he stayed five years in Venice.

• He next moved to Rome.

• In Paris he gained new impetus and influence from the painter Noël-Nicolas Coypel (1690–1734), before seven years in London, where he was influenced by the portraiture of Godfrey Kneller and Michael Dahl. 

• In December 1724, after the death of David von Krafft, Schröder was ordered back to Sweden to take over from his old teacher as court portraitist.

• Soon afterwards, in 1727, Schröder married Anna Birgitta Spöring.

• In 1745 Schröder was appointed an advisor at court and he amassed a moderate fortune from all the commissions he gained.

• One of his most notable pupils was Alexander Roslin.

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