Guillaume Thomas Taraval (1701–1750) was a Swedish painter of French descent.

He first came to Sweden in 1732 and was mainly active in the Stockholm Palace

Stockholm Palace

The Stockholm Palace is the official residence and major royal palace of the Swedish monarch. . Stockholm Palace is located on Stadsholmen , in Gamla Stan in the capital, Stockholm...

. He produced a series of elegant ceiling paintings and introduced the Rococo

Rococo

Rococo , also referred to as "Late Baroque", is an 18th-century style which developed as Baroque artists gave up their symmetry and became increasingly ornate, florid, and playful...

 decorative style to Sweden. He also played a major part in the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts

Royal Swedish Academy of Arts

The Royal Swedish Academy of Arts or Kungl. Akademien för de fria konsterna, founded in 1773 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden...

, becoming its first director on its foundation in 1735.

Sources

• Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon
  Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon
  Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon is a compact Swedish dictionary of biography first published in 1873-1876 by the physician and antiquarian Herman Hofberg . The second, updated edition was published in 1906, under the editorship of Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, and Olof Rubenson...
  
  , 1906.
• Carl G. Laurin, Konsthistoria, Stockholm 1919