Egron Sillif Lundgren - Artist Info

About Egron Sillif Lundgren

  • Biography

    Egron Sellif Lundgren (18 December 1815, Stockholm - 16 December 1875, Stockholm) was a Swedish painter and author who specialized in watercolors. His father, Erik Lundgren, was a manufacturer. After 1829, Egron studied at the Teknologiska institutet with a focus on "bergshantering" (a form of resource management).

    After graduating, he worked in Eskilstuna and at the cannon foundry in Finspång. This type of work was apparently not to his liking as, in 1835, he enrolled at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts to pursue a childhood interest in watercolors. He studied there until 1839, then went to Paris, where he copied paintings in the Louvre and took advanced courses in the studios of Léon Cogniet.
    From 1841 to 1849, he lived ...

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