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Count Carl Gustaf Tessin (5 September 1695 – 7 January 1770) was a Swedish Count and politician and son of architect Nicodemus Tessin the Younger and Hedvig Eleonora Stenbock. He was one of the most brilliant personages of his day, and the most prominent representative of French culture in Sweden.
O conde Carl Gustaf Tessin ( Estocolmo, 5 de setembro de 1695 - Åkerö, 7 de janeiro de 1770) foi um aristocrata, diplomata, político sueco. Também foi um grande colecionador de pinturas e mecenas, um dos maiores expoentes da Era da Liberdade na Suécia.
28 de jun. de 2024 · Carl Gustaf Tessin. 1695–1770. When Nicodemus Tessin the Younger died in 1728, Carl Gustaf Tessin was appointed Superintendent, ensuring that Stockholm Palace would be built entirely according to his father's design. He was not a practising architect, but he was a renowned art expert.
1 de set. de 2024 · Carl Gustaf, Count Tessin (born Sept. 5, 1695, Stockholm—died Jan. 7, 1770, Åkerö, Swed.) was a Swedish court official, statesman, and writer who was a founder of the 18th-century parliamentary Hat Party and an influential adviser to the court of Adolf Frederick.
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11 de mai. de 2017 · Tessin was, among other things, a politician, a serious cataloguer of his collections, a government official, and a diplomat. He was his country’s ambassador to France between 1739 and 1742, and he became a link between Sweden’s royal family and the art world of the time.
Biography. Swedish count, knight, diplomat and commander of the Royal Order of the Seraphim; Collector and patron. Son of Nicodemus Tessin the younger. Visited Paris in 1715, 1728, and was ambassador there 1739-42.
Still after more than 250 years, the art collection of the Swedish politician Count Carl Gustaf Tessin (1695-1770) continues to fascinate and reveal the history of collecting and the function of art in the age of the Enlightenment.