Jacob Axel Gillberg

Jacob Axel Gillberg (15 December 1769, , Västmanland – 1 October 1845, Stockholm) was a Swedish portrait miniaturist and military officer.

Biography His father, , was a copper engraver, who was serving as an Army draftsman at the time of his birth. At the age of ten, he was working with the . Two years later, he was already a student at the Royal Institute of Art and won several prizes. He received some guidance from the Danish miniaturist, Cornelius Høyer, during a visit there, and exhibited his first miniatures shortly after, in 1785.

By 1790, he had gone abroad; spending several years in Holland, France, England and Belgium, where he studied with the miniaturist, Marie de Latour. and the Göteborgs konstmuseum.