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Tihe leading portrait painters of the early nineteenth century
are Per Krafft the Younger, J. O. Södermark and J. G.
Sand-berg. The first named was a pupil of David, in Paris ; the two
latter, of a somewhat younger generation, displayed integrity
but little fantasy. J. G. Fahlcrantz was one of the more
prominent representatives of the romantic landscape style.
The time about 1830 saw the inception of what is known
as »emigrant art». The majority of our best painters at this
time were living abroad, especially at Rome, but also in Paris,
and these took part in exhibitions in Sweden, by sending their
canvases home. Foremost of these artists are Egron Lundgren,
the brilliant watercolour painter of the English school, G. W.
Palm, distinguished for his fine and solid landscapes, whose
pictures from Italy, about 1845, with their sensitive values
and delicate colouring, preserve a rare freshness. To the same
generation belong Wahlbom, a painter of historical genre, who
died early, and Blommér, the lyrical portray er of scenes from
the Northern sagas.
The reign of Carl XV marks a time of prosperity in Swedish
painting. About i860 some of the migrants returned home, and
the King, who was a painter himself, soon became the centre
of a lively group of artists. A »national» art with subject-matter
from Northern mythology blossomed forth and flourished,
Winge and Malmström being two leading names. Höckert, the
historical painter, excelled in colouristic works, Marcus Larson,
the romanticist, created his dramatically wild woodland
landscapes, whilst Edvard Bergh interprets the idyls of nature in
Central Sweden. Troili became a master of realistic portraiture,
while the most notable representatives of genre painting were
artists of the Düsseldorf School, amongst whom are August
Jernberg, Ferdinand Fagerlin, Bengt Nordenberg, D’Uncker,
and Kilian Zoll, the last-named having met with much
appreciation in our own time for his naïve intimate scenes of
country life and landscapes. As contemporary with these
should be mentioned Georg von Rosen, who painted deeply
psychological portraits and historical scenes, and Hellqvist,
the painter of historical subjects, who studied in Munich.
There was also Gustaf Rydberg, the landscape painter, who
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