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Nina Ringbom, Historiesajten, Visby, historiesajten@gmail.com  

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Bilthoven, 6 september 2018

Dear Nina Ringbom,
Excuse me for writing in the English language. You can respond to me in Swedish.
Congratulations with your beautiful website. I arrived in your domain thanks to my family reseach. Fieldmarshall Johan August Meijerfeldt (1725-1800) is my ancestor in a direct line (the greatgrandfather of my grandfather). My website www.meijenfeldt.nl is in Dutch.
You are using a picture of count Meijerfeldt. I noticed some other wibsites use it as well (Geni; Total War Center). The origional painting was copied in a copper stich in the National Museum of Helsingfors.
My question to you: do you know where to find the original paiting or a better picture and who is the painter?
If you’re interested I could help you out with a page about Meijerfeldt, his family and different high-quality pictures.
Thank you in advance for any trouble taken,
Hugo von Meijenfeldt,
 

Visby, 9 september 2018
Hello 🙂

The painter’s name is Per Krafft (the older one) and I found the painting here:  
Per Krafft
Have a nice day 🙂
/Nina Ringbom

Hello again

I searched a little on my other website (where I write about castles) and found that Johan August Meijerfeldt, the elder in 1735, bought the castle Sövdeborg in Skåne.
But surely you already know that? 🙂  

 
/Nina Ringbom

Bilthoven, 9 september 2018
Hi Nina,
 
Thank you very much for your extremely quick response and the extra information about Sövdeborg. Johan August Meijerfeldt sr (1664-1749) was even more famous than his son: one of the most trusted generals of Carl XII and later governor-general of Svenska-Pommern. He had more castles than Sövdeborg: Gammelkjogegard,  and Nehringen-Medrow (in Pommern).
The painting you are referring to is already amoungst the pictures I have of Meijerfeldt. His face is indeed exactly the same, but the collar isn’t. Krafft sr paints the white collar of his shirt, while your picture seems to be a copy with only the blue collar of his jacket. I am not always interested in extreme details, but if it leads to another painting I operate like a detective. 😉
All the best,
Hugo