Peder Als (1725 – 8 July 1775)

• Was a Danish historical and portrait painter.
• Als was born at Copenhagen.

• Studied under Carl Gustaf Pilo.

• He attended the Kunstakademiet (the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts), and while still there gained recognition as a portraitist with a series of paintings of knights of the order of the Dannebrog.

• He won the academy's gold medal in 1755, and travelled to Rome and Paris in 1757–62.

• In Rome he entered the school of Anton Raphael Mengs.

• He spent most of his time in Rome copying the pictures of Raphael, Andrea del Sarto, Correggio, and Titian.

• On his return to Denmark he painted portraits.

• He became a member of the Kunstakademiet in 1764, and professor at the Kunstakademiet in 1766.

• He died in 1775. 

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