Eric Gustaf Tunmarck (1 May 1729 – 1789) was a Swedish-Norwegian painter.

Biography

He was born in

Gothenburg Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gub ...

, Sweden. His apprenticeship was with Jacob von Schönfeldt (1709–1766) in Gothenburg. He arrived in

Kongsberg Kongsberg () is a historical mining town and municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. The city is located on the river Numedalslågen at the entrance to the valley of Numedal. Kongsberg has been a centre of silver mining, arms production and fo ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

during 1760, bringing a certificate from the parish priest for Holmestrand Church in

Holmestrand is a List of towns and cities in Norway, town in Holmestrand Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The town is the administrative centre of the municipality. It is located along the shore of the Ytre Oslofjord, about northwest of the Horten ...

. He worked with Johan Diderich von Dram (ca 1725–1798) contributing to the interior decoration of

Kongsberg Church Kongsberg Church (, ) is a building and congregation of the Church of Norway located at Kongsberg in Buskerud county, Norway. Kongsberg Church, a large Baroque church, was designed by Joachim Andreas Stukenbrock, and the construction period ...

(''Kongsberg kirke''). He also entered service with Søren Christensen Daugaard who was awarded a contract for the church's ceiling painting. After this assignment, he established himself as a portrait painter and painter of church interior in Norway. Among his best known portraits is the portrait of senior mining official (''berghauptmann'') Michael Heltzen who chaired the committee for the construction of Kongsberg Church. Some of his wall decorations are preserved at the

Drammen Museum of Art and Cultural History The Drammen Museum of Art and Cultural History (''Drammens Museum for kunst og kulturhistorie'') is a museum in Drammen in Buskerud, Norway. Background The Drammen Museum of Art and Cultural History operates as a foundation created in 1996. T ...

. He died in

Bragernes Bragernes is one of the central areas of the city of Drammen in Buskerud, Norway, on the north side of the Drammen River (''Drammenselva''). Bragernes Church Bragernes Church (''Bragernes kirke'') was erected in 1871 in neo-Gothic style in th ...

, Norway during 1789.

References

1729 births 1789 deaths Artists from Gothenburg Swedish portrait painters 18th-century Swedish painters 18th-century Swedish male artists Swedish male painters Swedish emigrants to Norway {{Sweden-painter-stub