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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:: 68415
helsingborgs museum
1700-talet
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Painting ID:: 68418
nordiska museet
1782
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Painting ID:: 68557
skulpturgalleriet i kongl
1796. olja på duk
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Painting ID:: 68696
Convivial Scene in a Peasant Cottage
Olja på duk
41 X 53 cm (16.14 X 20.87 in)
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Painting ID:: 68697
En piga hoser sappa utur en kiettel i en skal
Olja på duk
55.5 X 45 cm (21.85 X 17.72 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: | Willem Claesz. Heda | JANSSENS, Jan | marie suzanne giroust roslin | Maurice Prendergast | Jacob de Gheyn II |
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