Name Lorens the | Died 1766 | |
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Children Ulrika Pasch, Lorens Pasch the Younger | ||
Lorens, Lorenz or Lorentz Pasch the Elder (1702, probably March 1702, Stockholm – 1766, Stockholm) was a Swedish painter and the brother of Johan Pasch.
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Life
He was trained in painting by his father Danckwart Pasch (who was a decorative painter from Lubeck) and by David von Krafft - his mother was Danckwart's wife Judith Larsdotter. In 1721 he travelled to London, which was then attracting several Swedish painters. There he was introduced into British artistic circles by his fellow-Swede Michael Dahl, studying paintings by artists such as Peter Lely and Godfrey Kneller (his work also shows influences from Pasch's contemporaries William Hogarth and Thomas Gainsborough) and returning to Stockholm in 1728 on his father's death. Back in Sweden, especially in the 1730s, he worked in aristocratic circles as a portrait painter and was regarded as Sweden's most prominent portraitist of the era. In 1730 he married Anna Helena Beckman - their children included Lorens Pasch the Younger and Ulrika Pasch, both of whom he trained in painting.
In later years Olof Arenius, Gustaf Lundberg and others began to take Pasch's place as top Swedish portraitist as his success began to decline. Nursed by his daughter, he died in Stockholm in 1766.