Wilhelmina Krafft
Maria Wilhelmina Krafft (married name Noreaus, 1778–1828) was a Swedish painter and portrait miniaturist. She was the daughter of the painter Per Krafft the Elder and Maria Vilhelmina Ekebom and the sister of the painter Per Krafft the Younger.
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- Name
- Maria Wilhelmina Krafft
- Born
- 1783
- Birthplace
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Died
- 1839
- Education
- Royal Swedish Academy of Arts
- Nationality
- Sweden
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- portrait
- Teachers
- Lorentz Svensson Sparrgren
- Languages
- Swedish
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Maria Wilhelmina Krafft (married name Noreaus, 1778–1828) was a Swedish painter and portrait miniaturist. She was the daughter of the painter Per Krafft the Elder and Maria Vilhelmina Ekebom and the sister of the painter Per Krafft the Younger.
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Wilhelmina Krafft (1778–1828) was a painter, of Swedish nationality. The painter was born in Stockholm and died in Norrköping. Wilhelmina Krafft was educated at Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts.
The work spans portrait. Languages used include Swedish. Works are held at Nationalmuseum.
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Wilhelmina Krafft studied at Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts. Training under Lorentz Svensson Sparrgren is recorded. The recorded working language is Swedish. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Work by Wilhelmina Krafft is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum.
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Key facts
• Name — Maria Wilhelmina Krafft • Born — 1783 • Birthplace — Stockholm, Sweden • Died — 1839 • Education — Royal Swedish Academy of Arts
Life
Life
Wilhelmina Krafft was born in Stockholm. She and her brother acted as models for their father's child portraits, a genre for which he was famous. One of these paintings portrays Per drawing and Wilhelmina at his feet in admiration (1783), and another depicts Wilhelmina alone praying (1782). Wilhelmina and her brother studied art at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, where her main teacher was Lorentz Svensson Sparrgren. In 1797, she debuted with her brother in the annual art exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm. Her work and talent impressed and she was decorated with the academy's second medal for her work at her first exhibition for her "beautiful prof. works in mignature". In the following exhibition of 1798, she participated with her original miniature portraits. She died in Norrköping. Her style of painting has been described as cold and icy and as such typically representative of the contemporary neoclassical empire art. She married the medical doctor Olof Noréus (1770–1846) and was the mother of the painter Pamela Clementina Noraéus (1817–1892).
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The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Born on 10 May 1778. Recorded with the occupation painter. Institutional cataloguing adds that wilhelmina Krafft is recorded as a citizen of Sweden. Institutional cataloguing adds that wilhelmina Krafft died on 29 November 1828. Institutional cataloguing adds that wilhelmina Krafft is classed in the genre portrait. The register further records that wilhelmina Krafft is recorded with the gender female.
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Stockholm.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q4959704: Wilhelmina Krafft
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- “Wilhelmina Krafft”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- VIAF cluster 96366080 for Wilhelmina Krafft, aggregating national library name authorities.
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This entry is compiled from 5 catalogued sources across 5 independent registers. The registers consulted are Wikimedia Foundation, The Art Institute of Chicago, OCLC, Crossref registry and Wikipedia. Every statement above is held against the register that stated it; where the registers are silent, the entry is silent.
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