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Per Vilhelm Cedergren BIOGRAPHY
1820 - 1896. Known for: Marine painting.
The marine painter Per Wilhelm Cedergren (Stockholm 1820-1896 Spånga) was intimately associated with the marine life. As a child he lived at Skeppsholmen where his father was a block and turning... Read full biography
The marine painter Per Wilhelm Cedergren (Stockholm 1820-1896 Spånga) was intimately associated with the marine life. As a child he lived at Skeppsholmen where his father was a block and turning master at Stockholm's warship. According to the son's autobiographical notes (G. Webe, "Pehr Wilhelm... Read full biography
The marine painter Per Wilhelm Cedergren (Stockholm 1820-1896 Spånga) was intimately associated with the marine life. As a child he lived at Skeppsholmen where his father was a block and turning master at Stockholm's warship. According to the son's autobiographical notes (G. Webe, "Pehr Wilhelm Cedergren. Shipbuilding shipbuilder-marine painter", in "Forum Navale.", No. 28, Naval History Society, 1973), the father often sat on the hook. Like so many others during this time, he escaped hard... Read full biography
The marine painter Per Wilhelm Cedergren (Stockholm 1820-1896 Spånga) was intimately associated with the marine life. As a child he lived at Skeppsholmen where his father was a block and turning master at Stockholm's warship. According to the son's autobiographical notes (G. Webe, "Pehr Wilhelm Cedergren. Shipbuilding shipbuilder-marine painter", in "Forum Navale.", No. 28, Naval History Society, 1973), the father often sat on the hook. Like so many others during this time, he escaped hard reality with the help of booze. The family lived in a cold and drab attic room where they slept directly on the floor. As a nine-year-old, Cedergren was entered as a crown's ship's boy. He later painted both in text and image how he, as a ship's boy,... Read full biography
The marine painter Per Wilhelm Cedergren (Stockholm 1820-1896 Spånga) was intimately associated with the marine life. As a child he lived at Skeppsholmen where his father was a block and turning master at Stockholm's warship. According to the son's autobiographical notes (G. Webe, "Pehr Wilhelm Cedergren. Shipbuilding shipbuilder-marine painter", in "Forum Navale.", No. 28, Naval History Society, 1973), the father often sat on the hook. Like so many others during this time, he escaped hard reality with the help of booze. The family lived in a cold and drab attic room where they slept directly on the floor. As a nine-year-old, Cedergren was entered as a crown's ship's boy. He later painted both in text and image how he, as a ship's boy, froze, cooled and got hit in time and time. In the winters he went to the shipbuilding school and in the summers he was out and hurt on bo... Read full biography
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The marine painter Per Wilhelm Cedergren (Stockholm 1820-1896 Spånga) was intimately associated with the marine life. As a child he lived at Skeppsholmen where his father was a block and turning master at Stockholm's warship.
According to the son's autobiographical notes (G. Webe, "Pehr Wilhelm Cedergren. Shipbuilding shipbuilder-marine painter", in "Forum Navale.", No. 28, Naval History Society, 1973), the father often sat on the hook.
Like so many others during this time, he escaped hard reality with the help of booze. The family lived in a cold and drab attic room where they slept directly on the floor. As a nine-year-old, Cedergren was entered as a crown's ship's boy. He later painted both in text and image how he, as a ...But wait, there's more...
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