Pehr Hilleström

Pehr Hilleström
Self portrait (belongs National Portrait Gallery, Gripsholm Castle)
Born	(1732-11-18)18 November 1732 Väddö, Roslagen, Sweden
Died	13 August 1816(1816-08-13) (aged 83) Stockholm, Sweden
Nationality	Swedish
Known for	Painting, Tapestry weaving

Pehr Hilleström (18 November 1732 – 13 August 1816), was a Swedish artist and from 1794 a professor at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. He became its director in 1810.

Style

File:Pehr Hilleström d.ä. - In the Anchor-Forge at Söderfors. The Smiths Hard at Work - Google Art Project.jpg

He produced numerous genre paintings of people performing various daily tasks inside upper- and middle-class homes in Stockholm. Dresses and furniture were painted exactly the way they looked and provide a valuable source of information about what life was like in those days. In addition to this he painted craftsmen in action at mills and other early industrial workplaces. Between 1757 and 1772 he worked as a master tapestry weaver, after learning the trade in France.

Gallery

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  People from Mora in Dalecarlia
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  A maid taking soup from a pot
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  Portrait of Carl Michael Bellman
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  Egg testing
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  Convivial Scene in a Peasant's Cottage
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  The enchanted forest, tournament at Drottningholm
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  Two Maid-Servants at a Brook
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  The Morning Toilet
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  Still Life
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  Gustavian Style Interior with Cardplayers, c. 1779

References

• Pehr Hilleström in Nordisk Familjebok (in Swedish)
• Historiesajten.se (in Swedish)

Further reading

• Kruse, Hans; Winqvist, Margareta (1979). Pehr Hilleström. Sweden: Nationalmuseum. p. 39. ISBN 91-7100-159-X.