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 :. | Convivial Scene in a Peasant Cottage | conversation pa drottningholm | Gustavian Style Interior with Cardplayers | Testing Eggs. Interior of a Kitchen | Eldsvada wide Hogbergsgatan | Related Artists:
Sharafuddin Yazdithe period of 1465-1535
John Kelimeier1787-1821
Abraham Hulk1813-1897 Born in London, the senior member and best known of a family of painters, Abraham Hulk studied in Holland at the Amsterdam Academy under portrait painter Jean Augustin Daiwaille.
