A Life Cut Short in Venice Johan Lundberg was born in Stockholm in 1712. He was the son of a clerk and court cashier, a man who moved within the structured circles of the Swedish court. His hands were trained by Georg Engelhard Schröder between 1729 and 1735, and later at the Academy of Fine Arts. He was a painter and an etcher, working with a precision that suggests a life spent observing the fine details of light and form. His path t…