Mathilda Rotkirch

Training under Robert Wilhelm Ekman is recorded. The recorded working language is Finnish and Swedish. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Turku and Stockholm. Work by Mathilda Rotkirch is recorded in the collections of Finnish National Gallery, Ateneum and Cygnaeus Gallery.

• Name — Mathilda Rotkirch • Born — 28 July 1813 • Birthplace — Borgå (Porvoo), Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire • Died — 6 March 1842 • Place of death — Åbo (Turku), Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire • Education — Royal Swedish Academy of Arts • Field — Painting

Rotkirch was born in Borgå (Porvoo), Finland. She was the daughter of Baron Karl Fredrik Rotkirch and Augusta Fredrika Elisabeth Rotkirch Aminoff. In the spring of 1833, she made her first study trip to Stockholm where she studied with Johan Gustaf Sandberg and Robert Wilhelm Ekman. She was a student at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts between 1833 and 1838. She took a study trip in 1840–1841 along with artist Sophie Aminoff (1808–1862) and her husband Carl Reuterskiöld, on a journey through Europe. They visited Lübeck, Hamburg, Kassel, Strasbourg, Bern, Geneva, Milan and Paris, where she studied with the Swedish painter and designer Per Wickenberg (1812–1846). She died of a lung ailment in Åbo (Turku) during 1842 at the age of 28. She was buried in the family graveyard at Näsebacken next to Borgå. Rotkirch was represented in an exhibition in Finland in 1847. She is represented at both Ateneum and Cygnaeus Gallery.