Albert Edelfelt

Albert Edelfelt

[Finnish Academic Painter, 1854-1905]

Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt (21 July 1854 – 18 August 1905) was a Finnish painter.

Albert Edelfelt was born in Porvoo, Finland. His father Carl Albert was an architect. Edelfelt admired the poet laureate Johan Ludvig Runeberg, who was a friend of the family. The company of Runeberg had a lasting impact on Edelfelt, who from time to time turned to scenes from Finnish history in his paintings. Edelfelt went on to illustrate Runeberg's epic poem The Tales of Ensign Stål. He studied art in Antwerp (1873 - 1874), Paris (1874 - 1878) and St. Petersburg (1881 - 1882).

He married Baroness (friherinnan) Ellan de la Chapelle in 1888 and they had one child.

Edelfelt was one of the first Finnish artists to achieve international fame. He enjoyed considerable success in Paris and was one of the founders of the Realist art movement in Finland. He influenced several younger Finnish painters and helped fellow Finnish artists such as Akseli Gallen-Kallela to make their breakthrough in Paris.

 

Portrait of a Young Lady
Oil on canvas, 1885
12 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches (32 x 27 cm)
Private collection

 

A Portrait of Madame Vallery-Radot
Oil on canvas, 1888
17 5/8 x 12 1/8 inches (45 x 31 cm)
Private collection

 

Portrait of Louis Pasteur
Oil on canvas, 1885
Musee d'orsay, Paris

 

Mother of the Artist
Oil on canvas, 1883
Private collection

 

 

A Child's Funeral
Oil on canvas, 1879
47 1/8 x 80 5/8 inches (120 x 205 cm)
Private collection

 

 

 At the Piano
 1889 oil on canvas   
 

 Chez l'Artiste (aka Les Gravures=The Engravings)
 1881  oil on canvas   

Horace and Lydia (study)
 1886  oil on canvas   

 Portrait of Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich as a Child
 1881   oil on canvas

  The Virgin Mary in the Rose Garden

 

Modelo parisina (1885)

 

En el archipiélago (1898)

 

 

Dolor (1894)

 

 Muchachos jugando en la orilla (1884)

 

 Muchachos en la orilla (1884)

 Mujer en la barca (1886)

 

 

 

 Campesina (1886)

 

 Retrato de Jean Sibelius (1904)

 Novicia (1904)

 

 Parisina leyendo (1880)

 

Mujeres de Karelia (1887)

 

 

Mujeres fuera de la Iglesia (1887)

 

[룩셈부르그 공원] Jardines de Luxemburgo (1887)

Mother and Child 

 

 On the sea, 1880-1883