Ingeborg Westfelt-Eggertz

Westfelt-Eggertz painted this view from Smögen. Hållö lighthouse is one of the oldest on the west coast, built in 1842.

Westfelt-Eggertz grew up in Stockholm and studied at the Technical School in Stockholm and then at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts between 1873 and 1880. After her studies in Stockholm, she went to study in Paris with Raphaël Collin and Gustave Courtois. After a few years in Paris, she opened her own school in 1887 for the young ladies of the nobility and stock market aristocracy. She returned to Stockholm in 1890 where, together with the female artist Elisabeth Keyser, she established a painting school for female students. In 1893, she married the editor August Emil Eggertz and lived with him in Visby from 1893 to 1897, then moved to Landskrona for a few years, and finally in 1903, she moved to Gothenburg. In these places, she ran painting schools for women and alongside, created her own works when time allowed.
Eggertz-Westfelt was awarded several accolades, such as a gold medal in oil painting in Arcachon in 1888, a silver medal in Versailles in 1889, and a Mention honorable in Evreux.