Peter (Per) Eskilson (28 September 1820 – 29 January 1872) was a Swedish
genre painter
Genre painting (or petit genre), a form of genre art, depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. One common definition of a genre scene is that it shows figures to whom no identity can be attached ...
.
Biography
Eskilsson was born in the
Billeberga parish,
Scania
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, Sweden. His parents were Eskil Pehrsson and Elna Esbjörnsdotter.
He was at first an under-officer in the
Göta Artillery Regiment
The Göta Artillery Regiment ( sv, Göta artilleriregemente), designation A 2, was a Swedish Army artillery regiment that traced its origins back to the 17th century. It was disbanded in 1962. The regiment's soldiers were originally recruited fro ...
, and then a book-keeper at
Gothenburg.
After moving to Stockholm, he applied to the
Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts
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where he studied from 1850-1853. He made his debut in 1853 at the Academy's exhibition. Through the assistance of Bengt Erland Dahlgren (1809-1876), who was a member of the Academy of Fine Arts, he was enabled in 1853 to go to
Düsseldorf
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, where he studied under
Adolph Tidemand
Adolph Tidemand (14 August 18148 August 1876) was a noted Norwegian romantic nationalism painter. Among his best known paintings are ''Haugianerne'' (''The Haugeans''; 1852) and '' Brudeferd i Hardanger'' (''The Bridal Procession in Hardanger'' ...
.
He was compelled for a time to become a photographer and ran a photography studio in
Stockholm from 1860. He participated in the Scandinavian art exhibition in Stockholm in 1866. He became an associate (''agré'') of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Arts
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in 1866, and died at Bremö, near
Sigtuna
Sigtuna () is a locality situated in Sigtuna Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 8,444 inhabitants in 2010. It is the namesake of the municipality even though the seat is in Märsta.
Sigtuna is for historical reasons often still referr ...
, in 1872.
References
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1820 births
1872 deaths
Swedish genre painters
People from Svalöv Municipality
19th-century Swedish painters
Swedish male painters
19th-century Swedish male artists
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