Pehr Hilleström
Pehr Hilleström the Elder ( born November 18, 1732 in Väddö in Stockholm, August 13 † 1816 in Stockholm) was a Swedish painter.
He went from 1743 when Johan Filip grain in the teaching and at the Academy in Stockholm in Guillaume Thomas Taraval ( 1701-1750 ) and Jean Eric Rehn. He also studied with the painter Christian subjects Fehmer and wallpapers Weber Pierre Louis Duru (died 1753). After that, he worked for ten years at the Gobelins tapestry factory. 1757/58 he studied at government expense in Paris in particular tapestry - making, but also painting of Jean Siméon Chardin and François Boucher. He then worked again as a weaver and with only about forty years he turned seriously to painting. In 1773 he became a member of the Stockholm Academy, where he became professor in 1777, and in 1776 a court painter.
He left with over 1100 paintings an extensive oeuvre. These include many pictures of everyday life in what was then Sweden. One of his preferences were night scenes with candle light, he painted images of industrial plants and mines, farmers, and also life style similar to Chardin. There are official images of him royal receptions and visits, parades, opera and theater performances and the carousel called jousting in the Park of Drottningholm.
His son Carl Petter Hilleström (1760-1812) was also a painter.
Gallery
Society in a farmhouse parlor
A girl ladling soup in a bowl
Carousel in Drottingholm
Kitchen
Two girls at the Bach
Morning toilet
Still life
Hedwig of Schleswig -Holstein - Gottorp meets in Stockholm, 1774
Public Banquet in the Stockholm Palace ( Publik Taffel ) on New Year 1779
Celebration after winning the Svensksund 1790 (Second Battle of Ruotsinsalmi ).