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Pehr Hörberg was a Swedish artist, painter and musician. Hörberg also got permission to study the collection of paintings in Drottningholm and took part of some of the Swedish nobleman, portrait painter and royal court painter Ehrenstrahl's works at the Storkyrkan in Stockholm, Sankt Nikolai kyrka (Church of St. Nicholas), in Gamla stan in Stockholm. Then the crofter son from Småland, "The Royal Court Painter", Pehr Hörberg, bought a fourth part mantal by Chamberlain Jean-Jacques De Geer (1737–1809) [sv], a Swedish baron and upper-class chamberlain family De Geer. During his time in Olstorp, Pehr Hörberg painted most of his altarpieces. In 1796 Pehr Hörberg became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts and royal court painter.

Pehr Hörberg (1746-1816) is best known as a painter, having produced, among other things, altar‐pieces for some 90 Swedish churches. However, he was also active as a sculptor. Although most of his plastic production has been lost, a small terracotta lion is still extant (Fig. 1), demonstrating his talent and his style.

The most valuable object within the Vissefjärda Kyrka is the large altarpiece painted in 1795 by Pehr Hörberg (1746 - 1816), which shows Jesus' deposition from the cross. Despite the fact that Hörberg, as one of the most famous Swedish church painters of his time, painted a total of 87 altarpieces, he only used this motif three times.