Abstract
Summary Johan H⊘rner was born at Edebo in Sweden on January 28th, 17114. After his apprenticeship (from 1728) as a portrait‐painter under Johan Henrik Scheffel in Stockholm, he went to Copenhagen where a few years later he married a Danish girl, Christine Wass (April 24th, 1737). From 1740 onwards Johan H⊘rner stayed in Copenhagen where he established himself as a painter of portraits, genre‐pieces and still‐lives. Several paintings of the Leiden school (Dou, Schalcken a.o.) could be seen in the Royal collections as well as in private collections and may have influenced Johan H⊘rner to paint night‐scenes. A painting signed by the artist and dated 1753 (catalogue no. 2) depicts a scene with the painter himself seen from the back while portraits of the Queen and the King are hung on the wall (plate 3). Unfortunately the present where abouts of a duplicate is unknown. Obviously the artist is not unacquainted with conservation‐pieces, and some of his paintings may be characterized as such (plate 4). At the Ro...
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