Jens Juel
(1745–1802) dansk målare
Jens Juel (1745–1802) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Jens Juel belongs to the chapter ‘Neoclassicism’ in this site’s history of art.
Jens Juel was born in Balslev Parish and died in Copenhagen. Jens Juel trained at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Jens Juel worked in Hamburg, Copenhagen, Hamburg, and Dresden. The students included Philipp Otto Runge, Caspar David Friedrich, Conrad Christian Bøhndel, and Eleonora Tscherning.
The best-known works include ‘Johan Tobias Sergel, the Swedish sculptor’, ‘A Girl from Holstein’, ‘Niels Ryberg with his Son Johan Christian and his Daughter-in-Law Engelke, née Falbe’, and ‘Jean-Armand Tronchin, udsending ved det franske og engelske hof. Schweiz’. The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has 140 works by Jens Juel with free images. The dated works span the years 1762–2000. Works by Jens Juel are held by several collections, among them Statens Museum for Kunst, Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, and Nationalmuseum.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Anton Hickel, Semen Fedorovič Ščedrin, Kim Hong-do, Franciszek Smuglewicz, and Jean-Joseph Taillasson.