Henrik Lilljebjörn som landskapsmålare

Abstract

Summary Henrik Lilljebjorn (1797–1875) is well‐known for his memoirs of his youth in the province of Varmland in western Sweden. He was an officer in the Varmland Rifles and also trained as a military surveyor. Among his many talents was painting. As a painter he was one of many gifted dilettantes in Swedish military circles of the first half of the 19th century. Hitherto his paintings have hardly received any attention from art historians, even though his works are of great cultural‐historical interest and by no means lacking in artistic value. His motifs were taken from the manorial milieu of western Varmland, where he was brought up, and from the province capital, Karlstad, where he lived as an officer. He was most productive as a portraitist, but his portraits are often difficult to distinguish from the early work by his younger cousin Uno Troili (1815–75), whose first art teacher he was, and who was to become the foremost portrait painter of his generation in Sweden. This article, however, is entirel...