(b Södertälje, 2 April 1805; d Rome, 2 Feb 1868). Swedish painter. He trained under Fredric Westin at the Kungliga Akademi för de Fria Konsterna in Stockholm (1827–31). In 1831 he travelled to Florence, where he developed a lasting passion for Italian 15th-century painting. On moving to Rome in 1833, he put his talents to dubious use ‘renovating’ works of art for an art dealer. He received a travel grant from the Swedish Akademien in 1836 and remained in Italy until 1852, when he moved to Madrid; he spent two years there copying paintings for King William I of Württemberg. He returned to Sweden in 1854 and was elected to the Akademi two years later. In addition to Italian art, his painting was affected by the German Nazarenes whose influence can be seen in many of his religious works (e.g. Nun in her Cell, 1856; Göteborg, Kstmus.). He also painted mythological pictures (e.g. Satyr and Bacchantes, 1863; Stockholm, Nmus.), landscapes and genre scenes. Among his altarpieces are those depicting the Blessed Christ Child for Lovö Church in Södermanland in 1866 and The Eucharist for Sävar Church in Västerbotten. He returned to Rome in 1867. His cousin Arnold Abraham Plagemann (1826–62) was a marine painter.

• Plageman, Carl Gustaf
  • Rosen, Georg von