Born 1860 and raised on his grandparents’ farm in Yvraden, a hamlet near the village of Utmeland in the parish of Mora, Dalarna, Swedish artist Anders Leonard Zorn attained international success as a painter, sculptor, and etching artist. Among his portrait subjects include King Oscar II of Sweden and three American Presidents: Grover Cleveland, William H. Taft, and Theodore Roosevelt.
At the age of 29, Zorn was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur at the Exposition Universelle 1889 Paris World Fair. His art made him wealthy and he was thus able to build up a considerable collection of art. The objects were not only bought in his native country but also during the many travels he made abroad. In their joint will, Zorn and his wife Emma Lamm donated their entire holdings to the Swedish State.
At the end of his life, Zorn established the Swedish literary Bellman Prize in 1920. He died that same year, at the age of 60. Here below is a set of beautiful paintings by Anders Zorn in the 1880s and 1890s.
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| The Letter, 1882 |
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| Cousinery, 1882 |
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| In the Hammock, 1882 |
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| Spanish Woman in Black Beret, 1882 |
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| Walk in the Park, 1882 |
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| Lady in Blue Dress, 1883 |
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| On the Thames, 1883 |
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| Cristina Morphy, 1884 |
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| Mandolin Player, 1884 |
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| Castles in the Air, 1885 |
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| Lisen Lamm, 1885 |
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| Lucky with the Ladies, 1885 |
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| Mrs Nora Armitage, 1885 |
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| Gunlöd, 1886 |
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| Our Daily Bread, 1886 |
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| Summer Fun, 1886 |
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| The Thorn Thicket, 1886 |
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| Emma Zorn, reading, 1887 |
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| In Alhambra's Park, 1887 |
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| In the Harbor of Algiers, 1887 |
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| Lappings of the Waves, 1887 |
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| Portrait of a Lady in a Drawing Room, 1887 |
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| Portrait of Fru Lisen Samson, nee Hirsch, Arranging Flowers at a Window, 1887 |
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| Fish Market in St. Ives, 1888 |
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| Marie Cohn, 1888 |
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| Mrs Symons, 1888 |
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| The Misses Salomon, 1888 |
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| Cecile, Mathilde and Pierre May in their Apartment on the Avenue Hoche, Paris, 1889 |
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| Mrs. Weguelin with Son, 1889 |
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| The Schwartz Girls, 1889 |
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| Impressions of London, 1890 |
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| Sunday Morning, 1891 |
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| The Waltz, 1891 |
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| Awakening, Boulevard de Clichy, 1892 |
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| Omnibus, circa 1892 |
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| Frieda Schiff (1876–1958), Later Mrs. Felix M. Warburg, 1894 |
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| Lady in a Café, Isle de Seguin, 1894 |
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| Lucy Turner Joy, 1897 |
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| Mrs. Walter Rathbone Bacon, 1897 |
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| Frances Cleveland, wife of President Grover Cleveland, 1899 |
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