Bertha Valerius

Aurora Valeria Albertina Bertha Valerius (21 January 1824, Stockholm - 24 March 1895, Stockholm), was a Swedish photographer and painter.

Bertha Valerius was the issue of Johan David Valerius, member of the Swedish Academy, and Kristina Aurora Ingell, and the sister of the singer and painter Baroness Adelaïde Leuhusen.

She studied art at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts and later in Düsseldorf, Dresden and Paris. Upon her return, she entered a career as a portrait painter. She accompanied the student of her sister, Kristina Nilsson, to Paris as chaperon i 1860. During her second stay in Paris, she studied the art of photography, and upon her return, she opened her own photographic studio in Paris. In 1863, she was regarded as one of the most notable photographers in Stockholm.

In 1864 she was appointed official portrait artist of the royal court. She was awarded at the exhibition in Kungsträdgården in 1866. In the mid 1870s, she closed her studio and devoted herself exclusively to paintings, were she was also successful.

Bertha Valerius is represented at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, Uppsala Universitetsbibliotek, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Linköpings museum.

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