Daniel Cronström (29 September 1655 in

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– 30 August 1719 in

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) was a Swedish architect working in the Late Baroque style influenced by the French style of

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. He entered the foreign service and served in

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as a Commission Secretary in 1679. He was sent to Paris in the 1690s as a cultural ambassador whose duty it was to seek out, record in drawings and buy as much as he possibly could of first-rate material related to the decorative arts. The Tessin-Cronström correspondence is an archive of information on French style in architecture and the arts. An exhibition of such drawings from Swedish state collections devoted to Cronström and

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, "Versailles: The View From Sweden" was mounted at the

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during 1988.

References

other sources

*N. Tessin et D. Cronström, 1964. ''Les relations artistiques entre la France et la Suède, 1693-1718''. Correspondence. (1964)

External links

* http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/BrievenAnthonieHeinsius1702-1720/Index/c
Daniel Cronström, in Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (article of R. Josephson. With contribution of P. Sörensson)
Swedish architects 1655 births 1719 deaths Ambassadors of Sweden to France {{Sweden-architect-stub