Sofia Adlersparre

Sophie Adler Sparre ( born March 6, 1808 † March 23, 1862 ) was a Swedish painter.

Sophie was the daughter of the provincial superintendent ( Landshövding ) the island of Öland. After the painter CF Pedersen had been shipwrecked off the island, they received from him drawing lessons. After the family moved to Stockholm in 1830 she trained at Carl Gustaf Qvarnström, Johan Gustaf Sandberg and OJ Södermark. Crown Princess Joséphine ( later Queen of Sweden ) ordered a portrait with her and mediated contacts.

From 1839 to 1840 Sophie Adlersparre studied with Léon Cogniet in Paris and met with Carl Wahlbom and by changing mountain. Back in Stockholm, it established its own art school. In 1845 it funded the nunmehrige Queen Joséphine another study trip to Paris. Between 1845 and 1846 studied Sophie Adler Sparre in Dresden, where she was inspired by Johan Christian Clausen Dahl and Caspar David Friedrich. Further study tours have taken her to Munich, Florence, Bologna and Rome. In Rome she was part of the Swedish artist colony and had contact with the German group of the Nazarene under Friedrich Overbeck. She stepped over to Catholicism and created a portrait of Pope Pius IX. Shortly after his return to Stockholm she died.