Jens Juel

Works by this Artist

Promenading in a Park
Jens Juel, 1764

Background

son of a minister

Studies

with Johann Michael Gehrmann (Hamburg); with Carl Gustaf Pilo at Royal Danish Art Academy (Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, hereafter Copenhagen Academy; 1765-71)

Career

1769 –commissionfor portrait of Queen Caroline Mathilde (National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen)

1771 – wins Great Gold Medal at Copenhagen Academy

1780 – appointed court painter

1782 – elected member of Copenhagen Academy

1784 – becomes professor at Copenhagen Academy

1795-97 and 1799-1801 – director of Copenhagen Academy

Travels

Hamburg (early 1760s, 1772); Copenhagen (1765-1772; 1780); Dresden (1773-74); Rome (1774-76); Paris (1776-77); Geneva (1777-79)

Commissions from

Christian VII (King of Denmark)

Important Artworks

The Roman Dwarf Francesco Ravai, Called Bajocco, 1774-76 (National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen)

View of the Fields at Jaegerpris, 1782 (National Gallery of Denmark)

The Crossing over the Little Belt at Snoghøj. Moonrise, 1787 (National Gallery of Denmark)

Dance Glade at Sorgenfri, 1800 (National Gallery of Denmark)

A Running Boy. Marcus Holst von Schmidten, 1802 (National Gallery of Denmark)

Readings

Poulsen, Ellen. Jens Juel: Paintings and Pastels and Catalogue. Copenhagen: Christian Ejlers, 1991

Scott, B. “The Danish Reynolds – Jens Juel (1745-1802),” Apollo, vol. 125, no. 304 (June 1987): 411-15