Johann Salomon Wahl (1689, Chemnitz – 5 December 1765, Copenhagen) was a German artiste who became a court painter in Denmark.
He trained as a painter amongst 1705 and 1711 in imitation of David Hoyer (1667-1720), the court painter in Leipzig. After that, he arranged in Hamburg, where he worked as a portrait painter for the Holstein. In 1719, he was called to Denmark to act out for the Danish Royal Family.
When Christian VI ascended the throne in 1730, Wahl was appointed as court painter. In 1737, he took more than the administration of the Royal Collection. In 1744, he became an honorary aficionada of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze.
He was along with the first Northern artists to apply the supplementary French styles of portrait painting, emphasizing one’s incline in group rather than their personality, although his portraits of those outside the nobility tended to be freer in style.
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