Albert Edelfelt (1854 -1905) Finnish painter

Thank you everyone for watching and for comments! ༺❀༻ All the best Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt (21 July 1854 – 18 August 1905) was a Finnish painter.[1] He lived in Grand Duchy of Finland and made Finnish culture visible abroad, before Finland gained full independence Edelfelt was born in Porvoo, son of Carl Albert Edelfelt, an architect, and Alexandra Edelfelt, née Brandt. His parents were Swedish-speaking Finns. He began his formal studies of art in 1869 at the Drawing School of the Finnish Art Society, and continued as a student of Adolf von Becker (1871–73). He studied history painting at the Antwerp Academy of Art (1873–74) before becoming a pupil of Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1874–78). In Paris he shared a studio with the American, Julian Alden Weir, who introduced him to John Singer Sargent. Later he studied at Saint Petersburg (1881–82). He married Baroness (friherinnan) Ellan de la Chapelle in 1888, and t