Last Judgment, 1696, are now to be found in Stockholm's
Storkyrka, where he himself is buried. In Gripsholm his
painting of The Well-masters in Medevi, who pour out
water for the bathing guests, 1683, is preserved. With this
work he introduced genre painting into Sweden, and, strange
to say, animal painting also, for in his rendering of the
woods and the birds he contributed something distinctly
new and Swedish. It is dilettantish, to be sure, but it is exe-
cuted in a fresh and almost modern way. His Self Portrait,
with allegorical figures, in the National Museum, bears the
following inscription in his own hand setting forth the pur-
pose of his art, portraits, and allegories: "This painting is
executed in the year 1691 by His Royal Majesty's Court-
Intendant, David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl, in his sixty-second
year, and is intended to represent how, out of love for the
art of painting, he seeks to exalt with his fantasy, the im-
mortal honor of the higher authorities."

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