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Pehr Hillestrom
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.
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Painting ID:: 68698
Den fortrollade skogen
1785(1785)
Olja på duk
60 X 98.5 cm (23.62 X 38.78 in)
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Painting ID:: 68699
Carl Michael Bellman
1781 (possible 1790)
Olja på duk
40 X 34 cm (15.75 X 13.39 in)
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Painting ID:: 68700
Testing Eggs. Interior of a Kitchen
Olja på trä
39 X 32 cm (15.35 X 12.60 in)
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Painting ID:: 68701
Two Maid Servants at a Brook
Olja på duk
58 X 51 cm (22.83 X 20.08 in)
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Painting ID:: 68702
The Morning Toilet. Boudoir Scene
Olja på duk
73 X 82 cm (28.74 X 32.28 in
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Pehr Hillestrom
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 Artists to Pehr Hillestrom: | Louis Loeb | Georg Andreas Hoffmann | august jerdorff | Santo Peranda | Delacroix Auguste |
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