Nude Study

This nude study from the 1850s was painted by Amalia Lindegren. She was the first woman in Europe who was awarded a state travel scholarship in 1850 to study art abroad. She was born in Stockholm and displayed an early talent, making and selling drawings in the manner of Maria Röhl: she started to paint in oil in 1839, became a student of Sofia Adlersparre in 1842, and participated in her first exhibition the following year.

In 1846, her drawings were noted by the artist and art teacher Carl Gustaf Qvarnström (1810–1867), who was impressed and, through his connections made her one of the four women accepted as students at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in 1849, the other three being Lea Ahlborn, Agnes Börjesson and Jeanette Möller. At the time women could only study at the academy by dispensation, as women students where not formally accepted to study at the same terms as male students at the Academy before 1864. In 1850, she became the first woman student to be given a scholarship by the academy to study art in Paris. Later she studied at the Alte Pinakothek in Münich, in 1854–55 in Rome, and participated in the World Exhibition of Paris in 1856 before returning to Sweden in 1856. We present today's painting thanks to Nationalmuseum in Sweden.

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P.S. Here are 10 of the most famous female artist self-portraits and they are awesome!