Pehr Hilleström
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"Engelbreckt och K:Eric XIII"
Signed Hilleström and dated f 1805. Canvas 42 x 52 cm. Gilded period frame.
Provenance
District court judge J.G. Siljeström, Göteborg (around 1900).
Börjessons konsthandel, Göteborg (around 1960).
Bukowski Auctionhouse, auction 552, 26-29 May 2009, catalogue no 249.
Exhibitions
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, 1807, catalogue no 4.
Nationamuseum/Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm, 1960, "Svenska hävder genom konstnärsögon", catalogue no 315.
Literature
Osvald Sirén, "Pehr Hilleström d.ä.:väfvaren och målaren, hans lif och hans värk", Stockholm, 1900, listed as no 407, s. 258.
Gerda Cederblom, "Pehr Hilleström som kulturskildrare", I, 1927. Listed in the artists own register, catalogue no 1017, "Engelbreckt och K:Eric XIII".
More information
On verso the artist has described the motif.