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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:: 68703
Still Life
83 X 66 cm (32.68 X 25.98 in)
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Painting ID:: 75614
Interior fran Kungsholms glasbruk i Stockholm
Svenska: Interiör från Kungsholms glasbruk i Stockholm
Date 1760-tal
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Painting ID:: 80823
Self-portrait
Date 18th century ca. 1760(1760) from 1794(1794) until 1797(1797)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 53 x 42 cm (20.9 x 16.5 in)
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Painting ID:: 81587
Convivial Scene in a Peasant's Cottage
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 41 x 53 cm (16.1 x 20.9 in)
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Painting ID:: 83926
Self portrait
Oil on canvas
Dimensions 53 x 42 cm (20.9 x 16.5 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: | Thoms mile richardson,jun | Henry Leonidas Rolfe | RICCI, Sebastiano | Eugene Louis Boudin | Jacob Weyer |
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