Elias Martin

Elias Martin ( baptized March 8, 1739 in Stockholm, † January 25, 1818 ) was a Swedish painter who became known for his landscapes and genre paintings and portraits awareness.

Martin was the son of a cabinetmaker Olof Martin and Ulrika main, a sister of the furniture maker Georg Haupt. Martin received his first lessons from his father, and because of his talent, he later became a painter FC Schultz sent. About this Martin received employment with the shipbuilder Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, who used him as a draftsman and drawing teacher for the officers on Suomenlinna fortress. There was Field Marshal Augustine Ehrensvard be advisory and Martin became friends with his son Carl August Ehrensvard and taught it in the painting.

1766 Martin moved for studies in Paris, where he by Alexander Roslin's recommendation a place at the École académique got with instructions by Claude Joseph Vernet and probably François Boucher. In 1768, Martin moved on to London. There they took him two years later than associating a member of the Royal Academy of Arts, where he participated in exhibitions and as an art teacher in society. This was certainly due to his friendly relationship with the architect William Chambers. In England, Martin developed his own watercolor technique and taught other people in the engraving and mezzotint, although he revealed a personal touch in the latter techniques.

Martin went back to Sweden in 1780, where he was a member of the Academy of Art a year later and also taught. Gustav III. asked him to stitch print series Swedish views. In later years, his work was always religious, of which the works of John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness ( Museum Nyköping) and father Spring testify. In the Swedish National Museum, he is, among other things present with a portrait of his friend Carl Michael Bellman and a self-portrait. In his estate there were also over 200 oil paintings.

1770 Martin had the Englishwoman Ann Lee married, with whom he had the son Fredrik Erik Martin, who was also an artist. Martin's brother Johan Fredrik Martin was a graphic designer and professor at the Swedish Academy of Arts. During his time in Martin was familiar with artists like Bellman, Erik Palmstedt and Johan Tobias Sergel. In his later years he retired due to an eye condition and economic problems more and more from social life.

Elias Martin was buried in the Church of Adolf Fredrik in Stockholm cemetery.