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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:: 84909
Gustavian Style Interior with Cardplayers
Date probably 1779
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 60.5 x 145.5 cm (23.8 x 57.3 in)
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Painting ID:: 85605
Convivial Scene in a Peasant's Cottage
Oil on canvas
Dimensions 41 x 53 cm (16.1 x 20.9 in)
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Painting ID:: 86400
The Milliner
Oil on canvas
Dimensions 79.5 x 65.5 cm (31.3 x 25.8 in)
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Painting ID:: 90135
En piga hoser sappa utur en kiettel i en skal
oil on canvas
Dimensions 55.5 x 45 cm (21.9 x 17.7 in)
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Painting ID:: 97876
En piga hoser sappa utur en kiettel i en skal
oil on canvas
Dimensions 55.5 x 45 cm
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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: | robert john thornton | Bertalan Szekely | Thomas Ruckle | January Suchodolski | Frans Jansz van Mierisi |
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