Maria ''Wilhelmina'' Krafft (married name ''Noreaus'', 1778–1828) was a Swedish painter and portrait

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. She was the daughter of the painter

Per Krafft the Elder Per Krafft the Elder (16 January 1724 – 7 November 1793) was a Swedish portraitist. He was the father of the artists Per Krafft the Younger and Wilhelmina Krafft. Early life Per Krafft was born in Arboga, and studied in Uppsala, where he in ...

and Maria Vilhelmina Ekebom and the sister of the painter Per Krafft the Younger.

Life

Wilhelmina Krafft was born in

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. She and her brother acted as models for their father's child portraits, a genre for which he was famous. One of these paintings portrays Per drawing and Wilhelmina at his feet in admiration (1783), and another depicts Wilhelmina alone praying (1782). Wilhelmina and her brother studied art at the

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, where her main teacher was Lorentz Svensson Sparrgren. In 1797, she debuted with her brother in the annual art exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm. Her work and talent impressed and she was decorated with the academy's second medal for her work at her first exhibition for her ''"beautiful prof. works in mignature"''. In the following exhibition of 1798, she participated with her original miniature portraits. She died in

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. Her style of painting has been described as cold and icy and as such typically representative of the contemporary neoclassical empire art. She married the medical doctor Olof Noréus (1770–1846) and was the mother of the painter Pamela Clementina Noraéus (1817–1892).

References

* Österberg, Carin et al., ''Svenska kvinnor: föregångare, nyskapare''. Lund: Signum 1990. () * http://carlotta.gotlib.goteborg.se/pls/carlotta/VisaPerson?pin_perMasidn=160315 * Svenskt konstnärslexikon (Swedish Art dictionary). Red. Johnny Roosval & Gösta Lilja. Malmö: Allhems Förlag 1952. {{DEFAULTSORT:Krafft, Wilhelmina 1778 births 1828 deaths Artists from Stockholm 18th-century Swedish painters 19th-century Swedish painters Neoclassical painters Swedish portrait painters Portrait miniaturists Swedish women painters 19th-century Swedish women artists 18th-century Swedish women artists Sibling artists