Johan Stålbom

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Johan Stålbom (1712 – 17 November 1777) was a Swedish painter known mainly for portraits. He was born in Karis, in an area now called Raseborg, Finland. In 1733 he studied in Stockholm with painters Johan Pasch and Lorens Pasch the Elder. From the 1740s he lived and worked mostly in Östergötland, Sweden, later at his estate Orräng in Grebo. He painted mainly portraits; only a few of his works have survived, including some in the Linköping Diocese library. His best paintings show skilled drawing and strong colors, with reddish tones and greenish or gray shading. He married Susanna Beata Hammardahl around 1757 and died in Grebo, Östergötland, Sweden, in 1777.