(16 January 1724, Arboga - 7 November 1793, Stockholm) was a Swedish portraitist. He was the father of the artists Per Krafft the Younger and Wilhelmina Krafft.
Related Paintings of Per Krafft the Elder :. | Mary and Elizabeth Royall | Suffering Nude (mk39) | Portrait of the artist's wife | The Andirondak Guide | The Triumph of Victory | Related Artists:
Sylvester Feodosiyevich Shchdrinpainted Terrace on the Seashore in 1828
Simone Dei CrocifissiItalian Painter , 1330-1399
Homer WatsonCanadian Painter, 1855-1936
Canadian painter. The son of a mill-owner, he was born in a region of rural southern Ontario, which he painted throughout his life. In 1874 he moved to Toronto to work at the Notman Photographic Studios; he also spent many hours copying paintings in the Toronto Normal School in order to improve his technique. In 1876 he visited New York, where he was impressed with the carefully composed paintings of the Hudson River school and the rural scenes of George Inness, who encouraged Watson to pursue his career. The following year he returned to Doon to work up his New York sketches into finished paintings. A work of this early period, Landscape with River (1878; Toronto, A.G. Ont.),