Egron Lundgren

Egron Sellif Lundgren ( born December 18, 1815 in Stockholm, † December 23, 1875 ) was a Swedish painter and writer.

Life

With twenty years began in 1835 Lundgren at the Art Academy of his native city to study. After graduating in 1839 he went to Paris, where he was two years students in the studio of Léon Cogniet. Subsequently Lundgren went to Italy and settled for eight years in Rome. There he gave up oil painting and turned to the watercolor and gouache painting. From Italy he went to Spain and from there to England. By Queen Victoria he received numerous commissions, the first scenes from Shakespeare's comedies as its subject.

When the war broke out in 1858 in India, a house in Manchester made ​​him the request to go at his own cost then to make drawings from the campaign. Returning home with a portfolio of 500 images, he held an exhibition, and was consequently one of the elect 30 members of the Society of Painters in Watercolours.

In 1860 he returned to Sweden, later visited Egypt and Spain and England for the second time. The two latter countries offered him most subjects to his paintings, which almost all of them in England. It boasts of his great mastery of the delicate nuances of color, his skill, quickly conceive and give a few strokes with the effect of color and light, particularly to meet the characteristic, while the drawing is not always correct. As great as its reputation as a watercolorist in England is that of the witty Reisebeschreibers in Sweden.

At the age of 60 years Egron Sellif Lundgren died on 23 December 1875 in Stockholm.

Works

• Seated Young Ciociaria, pencil / watercolor on paper, octagonal, Rome 1845, ( memoirs of the German artist ... ), Bibliotheca Hertziana Rome
• In Toledo, colored pencil / watercolor on paper, 1855, auctioned in 2006, probably Private Collection