Carl Marcus Tuscher (1705–1751)

• Was a German-born Danish polymath: portrait painter, printmaker, and architect.
• Tuscher was born in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg.
• He was educated at Findelhaus and later as an apprentice to a painter, director of Nuremberg's Academy of Arts, Johan Daniel Preisler.
• He was in Rome, where in addition to studying oil painting, also studied architecture.
• He was employed by Prussian antiquarian Baron Philipp von Stosch.
• After visiting Naples he left Italy in 1741 for France, Holland and England.
• In November 1743 he moved to Copenhagen, where he was made court painter and royal architect by King Christian VI.
• He got an apartment and studio at Christiansborg Palace.
• In 1748 he made a large plafond portrait of King Christian VI on horseback.
• Tuscher married Sofie Wahl on 15 May 1747 in Copenhagen.
• She was the daughter of fellow-painter Johann Salomon Wahl.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Carl Marcus Tuscher, Self Portrait, after 1743.
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