Georg Engelhard Schröder

Portrait of Mustapha Aga, Ottoman emissary to the Swedish court, by Schröder in 1727.
Portrait of Yirmisekizzade Mehmed Said Efendi, emissary to the Swedish court (and later Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire), by Scröder in 1733.

Georg Engelhard Schröder (31 May 1684 – 17 May 1750), also spelled George Engelhardt Schroeder, was a Swedish painter. He was famous for his paintings of ambassadors of the Ottoman Empire to the Swedish court: Mustapha Aga in 1727, and Yirmisekizzade Mehmed Said Efendi in 1733.[1] He also painted a portrait of Ulrica Eleanor of Sweden

He was born in Stockholm. He married Anna Brigitta Sporing in 1727.

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