Agnes Fredrika Börjesson, sometimes called Agneta (1 May 1827, Uppsala – 26 January 1900,
Alassio
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, Italy), was a Swedish painter who specialized in genre and historical scenes.
Biography
Her father, Johan Börjesson, was a pastor and playwright. Her mother was a member of the noble
Fock family Fock is a Swedish noble family originally from Westphalia, Holy Roman Empire, from where members relocated to the Baltics. In 1651 four brothers were naturalised as Swedish nobility, from which three ''freiherr'' (baron) cadet branches were issued.' ...
. In 1849, she became one of the first four women admitted to the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and, from 1852 to 1853, studied with Constantin Hansen, who had recently spent a decade working in Italy.
From 1854 to 1856, she studied with the portrait and history painter,
Johan Christoffer Boklund
Johan Christoffer Boklund (15 July 1817 – 9 December 1880) was a Swedish history, genre, and portrait painter from Kulla-Gunnarstorp in Scania. He was the son of a gardener. At the age of fifteen, Boklund came to Lund, where he worked on illustr ...
. In 1857, she completed her studies with Benjamin Vautier, an exponent of the Düsseldorf School. After spending some time in Paris, she went to Italy in 1865, inspired by her time with Hansen. She returned to Düsseldorf, briefly, for some private lessons with Wilhelm Sohn.
She settled in Rome, and for a time lived with her friend, the painter Sofie Ribbing. Eventually she decided to stay in Italy, although she continued to send her works to Sweden, and, until 1880, participated in exhibitions at the Royal Academy, of which she became a member in 1872. She also had a showing at the
1873 Vienna World's Fair
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Many of her paintings were created en
plein aire
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. In the latter part of her career, she adopted the
Divisionist
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style. She spent long periods in Venice and on Sicily, as well as making short visits to Spain and Morocco. During her last three years, she lived in Liguria.
Her works may be seen at the Göteborgs konstmuseum and the
Nationalmuseum
Nationalmuseum (or National Museum of Fine Arts) is the national gallery of Sweden, located on the peninsula Blasieholmen in central Stockholm.
The museum's operations stretches far beyond the borders of Blasieholmen, the nationalmuseum manag ...
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References
Sources
* Carin Österberg, et al., ''Svenska kvinnor: föregångare, nyskapare''. Lund: Signum 1990
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Svenskt konstnärslexikon
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from the ''
Nordisk Familjebok
''Nordisk familjebok'' (, "Nordic Family Book") is a Swedish encyclopedia that was published in print from between 1876 and 1993, and that is now fully available in digital form via Project Runeberg at Linköping University. Despite their consi ...