Ebba Maria Bring, better known as Maj (

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, 29 August 1880 – Stockholm, 5 December 1971) was a

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painter and model. She was the daughter of Sven Casper Bring. Bring was educated at the

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in Stockholm, and she's represented in the collection of the

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there with eleven works, seven paintings and four drawings. Her portrait of Anna Behle is in the portrait collection of

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. She is the subject of several portraits in the Nationalmuseum collection, by Maja Braathen, Berta Hansson, Ninnan Santesson, and

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; the museum also owns her portrait of

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. Artistically, her style was defined by contact with

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, with whom she studied in Paris in 1910. She continued to exhibit until she was nearly 90.

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