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(2) Johan Aureller (ii)
(b Gävle, 1657; d Medelplana, Västergötland, 1733). Son of (1) Johan Aureller (i). He trained c. 1680 with his father at Läckö Castle; the rest of his career is largely undated. He was active as a portrait painter and his portrait of Friherre Lars Hierta (Dåderö; see Svenska män och kvinnor) illustrates his stylistic dependence on Ehrenstrahl’s official portraits. He also executed the altarpiece (1706) depicting the Crucifixion and the Deposition in a Baroque frame. Between 1702 and 1732 Aureller produced a number of epitaphs and sacred works for churches in Västergötland, the most renowned of which is that of 1732 in the church of Medelplana; within a richly carved frame, around an image of Christ as the Man of Sorrows with Angels, are oval portraits of the artist’s family. Although a mediocre painter, he introduced his father’s style into church decoration in the Skara region, establishing a school that perpetuated this style throughout the 18th century.
Part of the Aureller family
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