Christina Elisabeth Carowsky (March 5, 1745 – 1797) was a Swedish painter.
Biography
Carowsky was born in
Gothenburg
Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has ...
into a family of artists. Her mother was
Maria Carowsky
Maria Carowsky (née Ross) (1723–1793) was a Swedish artist.
Maria Carowsky was born in Gothenburg to the artist Johan Ross the Elder, an emigrant from Holstein. In 1744, she married the artist Michael Carowsky. She was widowed in 1745 and t ...
and
Michael Carowsky Michael Carowsky (1707- 1745) was a Swedish church painter.
Biography
Carowsky moved from Danzig to Gothenburg, Sweden where he became master at the City of Gothenburg Art and Painters' Office (''Göteborgs Målareämbete'') in 1742.
In 1744, ...
, and her grandfather was
Johan Ross the Elder
Johan Ross the Elder (''Johan Ross den äldre'') (1695 – March 26, 1773) was a Swedish church painter.
Early life
Ross was born at the village of Meldorff in Schleswig-Holstein. He was the son of Johan Ross and Anna Stockhouf.
His father ...
. Carowsky became a well known portrait painter in Gothenburg. She married in 1787 to Engelbert Jörlin, the principal at Gothenburg elementary school.
References
Other Sources
* Collections at Gothenburg history
II Christine Church books for marriages, births and deaths, Wilhelm Berg, Stockholm 1890–1893, p 694
* Svenskt konstnärslexikon (Swedish Art dictionary) Allhems Förlag, Malmö (1952)
1745 births
1797 deaths
People from Gothenburg
18th-century Swedish painters
Swedish women painters
18th-century Swedish women artists
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