Arthur Bianchini was born in Stockholm in 1869 with a surname he inherited from his Italian grandfather. His art education began at the Académie Julien in Paris in 1889 and was influenced by the tonal painting that characterised the art of the decade. In the 1890s, his art was shaped by his association with the Artists' Association, founded in 1886 by the so-called "opponents" who opposed the increasingly rigid and stagnant view of art held by the Royal Academy. The purpose of the association was, among other things, to "combat all outdated elements that could be harmful, and to promote all reforms that could be deemed beneficial to our domestic art and art industry." Among the members were some of the most important names in Swedish art...