Fanny Ingeborg Matilda Brate, née Ekbom (1861–1940) was a Swedish painter. She specialized in genre scenes, featuring families, which are often cited as the inspiration for similar works by Carl Larsson.

Biography

Fanny Brate was the daughter of Johan Frans Gustaf Oskar Ekbom (1832-1894), a clerk in the household of Prince Oscar,

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(later, King Oscar II), and she was born in the Arvfurstens palats. From 1868 to 1877, she studied at a girls' school, followed by drawing lessons at the Arts and Crafts School. She became a full-time student there from 1878 to 1879. That year, she began taking classes from August Malmström at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts. In 1885, she received a for a painting of herself surrounded by school children. In 1887, with the help of a travel scholarship from the Royal Academy, she attended classes at the

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in Paris. Later that year, she married the

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Erik Brate Erik Brate (13 June 1857 – 11 April 1924) was a Swedish linguist and runologist. Biography Brate was born in 1857 in Norberg, Västmanland County. In 1887 he married the Swedish painter Fanny Brate, née Ekbom (1861-1940). They had four ...

. They had four daughters. , their second, also became a painter. She continued to make study trips throughout Western Europe, including a visit to the

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. By the turn of the century, she had adopted

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styles and joined the

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. Many of her works depicted her own children. The process of raising them also inspired her to illustrate children's books, such as ''Mormors eventyr'' (Grandma's Tales), and take part in the ongoing debate about education. In 1891, she became a member of the (the Swedish Artists' Association). The

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held a memorial exhibition of her collected works in 1943. Her works may also be seen at the

Nordiska museet The Nordic Museum ( sv, Nordiska museet) is a museum located on Djurgården, an island in central Stockholm, Sweden, dedicated to the cultural history and ethnography of Sweden from the early modern period (in Swedish history, it is said to begi ...

and the Göteborgs konstmuseum

Selected paintings

File:Fanny Brate 2.jpg, Girl at the Window File:Fanny Brate-Namnsdag.jpg, Name Day File:FannyBrate Retstickor.jpg, Teasing File:Fanny Brate-Sov så sött.jpg, "Sleep so Sweet"

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Biography

Selected paintings

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