Portrait of the Head of the Chamber of Life, Major Adolf Ulrik Schützercrantz (1802-1854), painted by Carl Stefan Bennet (1800-1878) circa 1850. Oil painting on canvas.

Full-figure sitting, main phase slightly h, h.knä laid, v arm resting on table to h. Dark blue uniform with an epallet, the Knight’s Cross of the Sword on the chest, coat posted over h shoulder and foreweight so that four buttons are visible, a tab laid on the chair under S. I v hand, with the bracket resting on the table a long hoist with developed jumper bracket of S-shaped turned trousers (LRK 5121). The chair in a Neo-Baroque with a hand side bar and a carved rank in the back, crowned with a crowned jumper. The table easily with spiral twisted black painted legs and ball feet, on the table a large, gilded, carved baroque essay with 3 visible putti. Across the edge of the table hangs a round crown tower with brass plate with Karl XII’s name cipher, behind which a harness with wide, white leather edge. Tension frame Ornamental frame of gilded pine Signature: Adolf Ulrich Schützercrantz, Major at K. Andra Lifgardet, born 25 March 1802, died 9 Oct. 1854’.