Carl Larsson

The collections of Engineer Carl Robert Lamm, Näsby castle (according to Carl Robert Lamm's ledgers acquired directly from the artist on January 20, 1915 for SEK 2000); subsequently by descent to the present owner.

The Baltic Exhibition, Malmö, Sweden, May 15 - October 4, 1914, no. 87; Liljevalchs Konsthall (Liljevalchs Public Art Gallery), Stockholm, "Carl Larsson. Minnesutställning", March 6 - April 5, 1920, no. 301; länsmuseet i Gävleborgs län, Gävle, Sweden, "Carl Larssons Dora", September 1985; Bukowski Auktioner AB, Stockholm, "Carl Robert Lamm -en storsamlare och hans tid", 1993, no. 17.

(Ed.) Karin Levander, "Carl Larssons Dora. Historien om porträttet av den rödklädda damen", exhibition catalogue, Länsmuseet i Gävleborgs län, 1985, illustrated full page p. 21; Görel Cavalli-Björkman, "Carl Larsson. Porträttmålaren", 1987, mentioned p. 137-138 and illustrated p. 138; Ulwa Neergaard, "Carl Larsson. Signerat med pensel och penna", 1999, listed in the catalogue under year 1914, p. 150, no. 1548 ("Sven Lamm/Sven Olof Lamm/Porträtt av Sven Olof Lamm").

Carl Larsson is considered one of the greatest Swedish artists of all time. He was born in Gamla Stan in Stockholm and studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in the years 1866-76. After his studies in Stockholm, he traveled to France and settled in Grèz-sur-Loing. There he mainly painted garden motifs. In France, he met his future wife Karin Bergöö, who was also an artist and came to mean a lot for his artistry. Already during his student years, he made a living as a photo retoucher and cartoonist in the press. It was also during his studies that Larsson got to know Anders Zorn and Bruno Liljefors, together the three are usually called the ABC artists. At the end of the 1880s, Carl and Karin were given "Lilla Hyttnäs" in Sundborn outside Falun by Karin's father, and this is where Larsson's most famous watercolors depicting his family were created. The motifs often depict sunny landscapes with children, crayfish fishing, meals in the green and interior scenes. Larsson is represented, among other, in the National Museum, where "Gustav Vasas intåg i Stockholm" and "Midvinterblot" fills the stairwell. Represented mainly at the National Museum in Stockholm and at the Gothenburg Art Museum.