Elsa "Ellen" Favorin (31 December 1853 Kuorevesi – 27 November 1919 Lohja) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish painter.

Biography

Her parents were Anders Abraham Favorin and Lovisa Ingman. After attending the painting schools in Helsinki and

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, she continued her studies in Munich, Düsseldorf and at the

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in Paris. She often painted landscapes and was one of the artists who joined

Victor Westerholm Victor Axel Westerholm (4 January 1860 Turku – 19 November 1919 Turku) was a Finnish landscape painter, especially known for founding the Önningeby artists' colony. Biography Victor Axel Westerholm was born in Turku in 1860. He was the son ...

in the artists' colony at Önningeby on the island of Åland. She died together with her sister in a fire at their home in Lohja in 1919.

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1853 births 1919 deaths People from Inari, Finland Swedish-speaking Finns Finnish women painters 19th-century Finnish painters 19th-century Finnish women artists 20th-century Finnish painters 20th-century Finnish women artists Académie Julian alumni Deaths from fire Accidental deaths in Finland 20th-century women painters 19th-century women painters {{finland-artist-stub