16C - 17C antique giant baroque portrait oil on canvas Кing receives a messenger ^Sale

This Giant Portrait was acquired in old castle of 17th Century "Häringe slott" (Södermanland, Sweden). The painting depicts a scenic scene, "The king receives a messenger with the news..." A beautiful piece from the early Baroque period, preserved in good condition and ready to decorate your interior! ATTENTION! Painting is for sale WITHOUT FRAME!!! The frame in one of pictures does not exist! And placed in description so that you can imagine the full image of this beautiful painting in interior.

Size app.: 205 x 114 cm cm (roughly 80,7 x 44,9 in). Good condition, Unframed, wear, repairs, retouches, cleaning, conservation. Please study good resolution images for overall cosmetic condition. In person actual painting may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 8 kg kg is going to measure some 12 kg volume weight packed for shipment.

In its modern form "Häringe slott" was built in the 1650s and was completed in 1657, but there are older ancestors. The early Iron Age cemetery is located in the forest south of the castle, and the castle’s runway contains a rune stone, runic inscriptions of Sodermanland 239. According to the legend, this is the site of the Battle of Sotasar against Sote 1007 Vikings in Snorra Sturlasson in the Olav saga. In 1502, Haring was burned by the Danish king Hans and his servants. In 1625, when Gustav II Adolf transferred this castle to his field marshal Gustaf Horn. On the foundation of the old wooden castle 1650s Gustaf Horn built the current castle. After the death of Gustaf Horn in 1657, the castle inherited their daughter Agneta. When attacked in 1681, Cronan captured the Häringe, but was expelled after his release by Agneta’s son, Gustav Kruus, along with Klas Fleming and Fabian Wrede. in 1769, the castle was bought by Major General Fabian Leven and became their residence.