Swedish, 1732-1816,was a Swedish artist and since 1794 a professor at the Swedish Royal Academy of Art. He became the director in 1810. He produced numerous paintings of mostly women and children performing various daily tasks inside upper- and middle-class homes in Stockholm. Dresses and furniture were painted exactly the way they looked and provide a valuable source of information about what life was like in those days. In addition to this he painted craftsmen in action at mills and other early industrial workplaces. Between 1757 and 1772 he worked as a master tapestry weaver, after learning the trade in France.   Related Paintings of pehr hillestrom :. | Two Maid Servants at a Brook | Convivial Scene in a Peasant's Cottage | Convivial Scene in a Peasant's Cottage | Self-portrait | Testing Eggs. Interior of a Kitchen |
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Benjamin Blake
United Kingdom (1757- 1830 ) - Painter painted Still life of game in a larder in 1830
Ernfried Wahlqvist
painted Landscape with a church by a river in 1863
ignaz moscheles
Period: Romantic (1820-1869) Country: Germany/Czech Rep. Born: May 23, 1794 in Prague Died: March 10, 1870 in Leipzig Genres: Concerto, Keyboard Music