Description: In the 18th century the education of young girls of nobility included drawing. Three sisters Alströmer – Anna Helena, Christina Maria and Margareta Hedvig – were all amateur artists. Their father, Baron Patrik Alströmer, was an industrialist, but also a patron of the arts, espcially music and literature. According to an inscription on the front page of Anna Helena Alströmer’s sketch book, it includes “All my drawings which I have drawn for Mr Schöberg”. It is unusual that an entire sketck book of this kind has been preserved. The drawings are good examples of art education in the 18th century. Studies of several variations of noses, hands, plants etc. are based on models made by the teacher or on prints. ”Mr Schöberg” might possibly be the miniature painter and draughtsman J.F. Sjöberg, who 1772 put an advertisment in Götheborgs Nyheter, informing that he gave ”instructions in the art of drawing”.

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Anna Helena Alströmer | Studieteckning, tungor nr 5 | Nationalmuseum