Georg Saleman (c. 1670 - 1729)

• Was a german-Baltic miniature painter.
• Georg Saleman was born in Reval, known today as Tallinn, Estonia.

• His father was Joachim Salemann, a Lutheran clergyman and later Bishop of Estonia.

• Around 1690 he is first documented in Copenhagen.

• He created portraits for the families of the nobility living in Denmark as well as the royal family.

• On 6 October 1701 he was one of the cosigners of a petition sent to King Frederick IV requesting approval for the formation of an artist society and teaching academy.

• This was the humble beginning to the formation of the Royal Danish Academy of Art many years later.

• The other cosigners were Wilchen Riboldt, Jacob Coning, Otto de Willarts, Hendrick Krock and Thomas Quellinus, all court artists. 

• In 1724, Saleman delivered a series of miniatures of the royal family to Prince Carl of Denmark as his central work.

• Saleman died in Copenhagen in March 1729. 

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