Jens Jørgensen JUEL
Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800 Online edition JUEL, Jens Jørgensen Fünen 12.V.1745 – Copenhagen 27.XII.1802 A pupil of Gehrmann in Hamburg until 1765, he returned to the Danish Kunstakademi where he studied under Mandelberg and was influenced by Pilo and Tocqué. In 1772 he left Denmark, and travelled to Italy (1772), Hamburg (1773), Dresden (1773–74, where he worked with Anton Graff), Rome (1774–76, Batoni), Naples, Paris (1776), Geneva (1777, where he stayed with the naturalist Charles Bonnet) and Kassel (1779), returning to Copenhagen as court painter in 1780. Juel developed Danish portraiture far beyond the limits of Als (q.v.). Some of his best works in pastel (which with few exceptions all date from the 1790s) are his forward-looking depictions of J.424.105 Sophie Hedvig ADELER (1795–1859), children, with a naturalism that contrasts later Fru Herman Løvenskiold, pstl/ppr, J.424.1092 ~version, pstl/ppr, 31x23.5 strikingly with contemporary work in the 34x26 (Falsen; Copenhagen, Winkel & (Cambridge, Cheffins, 30.VI.–1.VII.2021, Lot French school; the technique is also superb. Magnussen, 28.IV.1933, Lot 12 repr., 142 repr., confused as version of J.424.111, est. Characteristically, the sphericity and liquidity of inconnue; Copenhagen, 9.XII.2003, est. £500–800) ϕβν eyes are given particular emphasis in Juel’s DKr25,000, DKr48,000). Lit.: Poulsen 1991, portraits, whether in oil or pastel. no. 678, repr. II, p. 428 Φ Monographic exhibitions Juel 1909: Maleren Jens Juels arbejder, Copenhagen, Kunstforeningen, .X.–.XI.1909 Juel 1975: Jens Juel, tegninger, Copenhagen, Den kongelige Kobberstiksamling, Statens Museum for Kunst, 4.X.1975 – 18.I.1976.
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