Gustav III (Sweden)

King of Sweden from the house of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf from 1771 to 1792.

Gustav III promoted the arts and was responsible for numerous buildings in Stockholm. He was assassinated by aristocratic conspirators in 1792. On his journeyman travels, Johann Conrad Fischer saw some of the works created under the patronage of the King and a bronze statue of Gustav III, as well as the plaster cast model created for the statue by the artist Johan Tobias Sergel.

Cite as: Gustav III (Sweden). In: Travel Reports of a Pioneer: Digital Edition of the Travel Journals of Johann Conrad Fischer 1794–1851. Published by Franziska Eggimann. Edited by Franziska Eggimann, Nicolau Lutz, Valerija Rukavina und Christopher Zoller-Blundell. Schlatt 2023, Version 1.2, https://johannconradfischer.com/en/names/gfa-actors-7404, viewed on 28 May 2025.