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Elbfas, Jacob Heinrich
(b Estonia, c. 1600; d Stockholm, March 1664). Estonian painter, active in Sweden. In 1622 he was resident in Strassburg (now Strasbourg), but by 1624 he was in Sweden, where he painted the half-length portrait of Anna Margareta Sture (Stockholm, Stadshuset). He was recorded as an alderman in the artists’ guild in 1628, and from 1634 to 1640 he was court painter to the Swedish dowager queen Maria Eleonora (1599–1655), although only workshop versions of his portraits of members of the court survive from this period. His portraits of the young Queen Christina, painted between 1637 and 1641, include a version with the first Swedish landscape background (workshop copy, c. 1634; Mariefred, Gripsholm Slott) and a full-length portrait of her in a paved interior (1641; Stockholm, Stadshuset). Only the portrait of Admiral Carl Carlsson Gyllenhielm (1641; Stockholm, Karlberg Slott) survives of the work that the Admiral commissioned from Elbfas. Between 1649 and 1655 Elbfas executed, with substantial workshop assistance, a series of full-length portraits of members of the Vasa dynasty, foreign monarchs, eminent men and members of Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie’s family for the latter’s castle at Läckö, Östergötland (now Kägleholm). For other members of this family he painted the full-length portraits of Catharina De la Gardie (1642; Ornö, Stenbock priv. col.) and Maria Sophia De la Gardie (1643; Tyresö Slott).
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