Elisabeth Charlotta Karsten, married surname ''Kachanoff'' (1789–1856), was a Swedish painter. She was born in

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, the daughter of Kristofer Kristian Karsten and Sophie Stebnowska and sister of Sophie Karsten. She was the student of Carl Johan Fahlcrantz. Karsten was a landscape painter and copied in oil from the work, among others, Ruysdael and Vernet. She used oil and

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. she was represented on the exhibitions of the

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between 1804 and 1810.Dahlberg och Hagström: ''Svenskt konstlexikon''. Allhems Förlag (1953) Malmö. She married the Russian general Simeon Kachanoff in 1818, and moved with him to

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', 1887 * Dahlberg och Hagström: ''Svenskt konstlexikon''. Allhems Förlag (1953) Malmö. * Svenskt konstnärslexikon del III sid 357 Allhems Förlag Malmö 1789 births 1856 deaths 19th-century Swedish painters Immigrants to the Russian Empire Swedish emigrants Swedish people of Polish descent 19th-century women artists from the Russian Empire Swedish landscape painters E 19th-century Swedish women painters Artists from Stockholm {{Sweden-painter-stub