Self portrait
Today I went to a small art exhibition in central Stockholm (the one Johanna Öst wrote about
here!) and it was lovely. Several Swedish 18th century artists were featured (among some Roslin and Wertmüller) but what I had anticipated most were some ten works of my favourite Pehr Hilleström! I wasn't disappointed!
This particular painting wasn't featuredIt was so great to see paintings I only had seen in books or online and so close you could make out every little detail. Candy for the soul!
You can find quite a few of Hilleström's paintings by a
Google image search which is great. What would be even greater was if someone made an up-to-date book on the artist and his career because the last time that happened was in 1929!
Although a treasure to me, the book (
Pehr Hilleström som kulturskildrare vol. 1-2, Gerda Cederblom, Nordiska Museet) features mostly black and white images and not always of superb quality.
Nevertheless, I have a long-term plan to scan every one of those paintings for fun and for reference. I have not come very far...
But above you have seen a few; the rest can be found in
this set on Flickr. The images may not be of great quality, but enjoy anyway!
Really, there is a ship, somewhere, behind all those tourists.
My better half and a part of the ship (which was very hard to capture in full from where we stood!).
We didn't board, partly because we were cheap, but mostly because we didn't carry cash.
Yours truly, and the ship, which have now set sails to new another shore in Europe. You can see the schedule (and much better pictures!) at the ship's website HMS Bounty
