Anna Dorothée (Dora) Wahlroos (19 December 1870

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– 21 March 1947

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) was a Finnish painter who participated in the painting movement ''

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'' towards the end of the 19th century.

Biography

She was born in

to province land surveyor Johan Henrik Wahlroos and Dorothée Augusta Henrietta Fehn. She studied at the in 1886–1888 and under

Victor Westerholm Victor Axel Westerholm (4 January 1860 Turku – 19 November 1919 Turku) was a Finland, Finnish landscape painter, especially known for founding the Önningeby artists' colony. Biography Victor Axel Westerholm was born in Turku in 1860. He was t ...

in 1889–1890. She was one of the artists who joined Westerholm in the artists colony at

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on the island of

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. She was accepted to the

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in 1890–1891, where her class was taught by

Gunnar Berndtson Gunnar Fredrik Berndtson (24 October 1854, Helsinki – 9 April 1895, Helsinki) was a painter from the Grand Duchy of Finland who was noted for his attention to realistic detail. Biography His father was , a well-known author, journalist and poe ...

. In the Fall of 1890 she got engaged to sculptor

Emil Wikström Emil Wikström (13 April 1864 in Turku – 26 September 1942 Helsinki) was a Finnish sculptor. Among his best known works are the '' Lyhdynkantajat'' ("Lantern Carriers") sculptures on the front of the Helsinki Central railway station and the mo ...

. The two went to study together at

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in 1891–1892. She won third prize in a competition with ''By the wash basin'' in 1893 and the same year she was granted a stipend. In Spring 1895 she was back at Paris and completed ''Inspiration'' there. However, by this point she had separated with Wikström, who married her friend Alice Högström in 1895. In the late 1890s she painted a number of paintings of local Finnish sceneries and she also did altar paintings. In August 1900 she traveled to Paris for the 1900 Paris Expedition, and from there she headed to the village of Antignano in

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, where Elin Danielson-Gambogi was living with her husband Raffaello Gambogi. It turned into a slight misadventure for her as Raffaello fell deeply in love with her. She returned to Finland and sent back the letters he had sent unopened. She became less outward after this, spending more time with her family first in Turku and then in Kauniainen, where they bought a villa. Still, her use of color changed after the trip, becoming more vibrant. She is known to have admired to strong use of color by Raffaello. She studied more at

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in 1911. Although she painted her entire life even until the end, her later works didn't get as much recognition. She died in 1947 from complications following an accident.

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