Thérèse Ekblom

Her father and brothers were scene painters at the Royal Swedish Opera. Ekblom attended the Academy of Art in Stockholm, where she met her husband. They married in 1895 and had five children. While pursuing their studies, the Ekbloms worked with Veit Brecher Wittrock, Professor at the Bergius Botanic Garden. They painted watercolors of species that Professor Wittrock was investigating. From the 1890s, the Ekbloms worked in various departments at the Swedish Museum of Natural History and for botanists at the botanical garden. She worked with Nathorst on illustrations and photography until his death in 1921. • Illustration — Botanical illustrations, 1907 • Illustration — Violets co-illustrated by the Ekbloms, 1897 • Illustration — Mantis illustrations, 1907 • Illustration — Restoration of a member of Williamsoniaceae (Bennettitales), 1916

• Osborn, Herbert. (1924). "Neotropical Homoptera of the Carnegie Museum." Illustrated by Thérèse Ekblom. In Annals of the Carnegie Museum. Vol. 15. pp. 383–462. • Sjöstedt, Yngve. (1917). "Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. 16 Odonaten." Illustrated by Thérèse Ekblom. In Arkiv för zoologi. Vol. 11. pp. 1–44. • Drake, Carl J., and Margaret Eva Poor Hurd. (1937). "The South American Tingitidae (Hemiptera) described by Stål." Illustrated by Thérèse Ekblom. In Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, Vol. 11, Issue 5, pp. 301–314.