Akseli Gallen-Kallela was a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic. His work is considered a very important aspect of the Finnish national identity. He changed his name from Gallén to Gallen-Kallela in 1907.
Hugo Gerhard Simberg was a Finnish symbolist painter and graphic artist.
Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt was a Finnish painter noted for his naturalistic style and Realist approach to art. He lived in the Grand Duchy of Finland and made Finnish culture visible abroad, before Finland gained full independence. He was considered the greatest Finnish artist of the second half of 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries, and one of the most prominent contributors to the Golden Age of Finnish Art.
Erik "Eero" Nikolai Järnefelt was a Finnish painter and art professor. He is best known for his portraits and landscapes of the area around Koli National Park, in the North Karelia region of Finland. He was a medal winner at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1889 and 1900, taught art at the University of Helsinki and was chairman of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts.
Pekka Halonen was a Finnish painter of landscapes and people in the national romantic and Realist styles.
Helena Sofia (Helene) Schjerfbeck was a Finnish painter. A modernist painter, she is known for her realist works and self-portraits, and also for her landscapes and still lifes. Throughout her long life, her work changed dramatically beginning with French-influenced realism and plein air painting. It gradually evolved towards portraits and still life paintings. At the beginning of her career she often produced historical paintings, such as the Wounded Warrior in the Snow (1880), At the Door of Linköping Jail in 1600 (1882) and The Death of Wilhelm von Schwerin (1886). Historical paintings were usually the realm of male painters, as was the experimentation with modern influences and French radical naturalism. As a result, her works produced mostly in the 1880s did not receive a favourable reception until later in her life.
Her work starts with a dazzlingly skilled, somewhat melancholic version of late-19th-century academic realism…it ends with distilled, nearly abstract images in which pure paint and cryptic description are held in perfect balance.
Events from the year 1799 in art.
Evgraf Fedorovich Krendovsky was a Russian portrait, genre and interior portrait painter.
Helga Amélie Lundahl was a Finnish painter.
Robert Wilhelm Ekman, a.k.a.R. W. Ekman, was a significant teacher and painter of the Finnish romantic portraits and early national romanticism.
Adolf von Becker was a Finnish genre painter and art professor of German descent. He was one of the first Finnish artists to study in Paris, who taught many of the young artists of the Golden Age of Finnish Art.
Rafail Sergeevich Levitsky was a Russian and Soviet genre, romantic, and impressionist artist who was an active participant in the Peredvizhniki (Itinerant) Movement.
Gunnar Fredrik Berndtson was a painter from the Grand Duchy of Finland who was noted for his attention to realistic detail.
Ferdinand von Wright was a Finnish painter - He is best known for his landscapes and animal paintings, especially his detailed depictions of birds, but he also created still-lifes and portraits.
Maria Catharina Wiik was a Finnish painter. She worked principally with still life, genre images, landscape paintings and portraits.
Berndt Adolf Lindholm was a Finnish landscape painter. He is usually associated with the Düsseldorf School, but his work also displays early Impressionist elements. He specialized in coastal scenes.
Erik Johan Löfgren was a Finnish-Swedish portrait painter.
Gustaf Werner Holmberg was a Finnish landscape painter.
Elin Alfhild Isabella Nordlund (1861–1941) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish painter. She was one of the artists who joined Victor Westerholm in the artists colony at Önningeby on the island of Åland. Examples of her work are in the permanent collection in the Önningeby Museum and have also been exhibited in the Turku Art Museum and the National Gallery of Finland.
Anna Sofia Sahlstén was a Finnish painter; primarily known for portraits and genre scenes.
A Girl Reading, 1830
Portrait of a Young Woman, unknown date
Woman Looking in the Mirror
Justice and Innocence, 1832
Transfiguration of Jesus, 1839
Self-Portrait in a St. Petersburg atelier , 1830–49
Scene from J. L. Runeberg´s "Moose Hunters", 1840s
Galatea's Triumph, 1840s
Ruotsinsalmi is Burning, Scene from the Crimean War , 1855–56
The Meeting of Väinämöinen and Joukahainen, Sketch
Swedish Soldier and Polish Girl
Robert Wilhelm De Geer , 1865
