Pehr Hilleström

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| name = Pehr Hilleström

| image = Per Hilleström.jpg

| caption = Self portrait (belongs National Portrait Gallery, Gripsholm Castle)

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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1732|11|18}}

| birth_place = Väddö, Sweden

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1816|08|13|1732|11|18}}

| death_place = Stockholm, Sweden

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| nationality = Swedish

| field = Painting, Tapestry weaving

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Pehr Hilleström (18 November 1732 – 13 August 1816) was a Swedish artist. He served as a professor and director at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts.{{cite web|url= https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=13600|title=Pehr Hilleström|publisher= Svenskt biografiskt lexikon |author= Gustaf Hilleström|accessdate=March 1, 2019}}

Biography

Hilleström was born on the island of Väddö in the district of Roslagen, Sweden where his uncle who was the vicar. He was the eldest of twelve children. He was first trained by landscape artist Johan Philip Korn (1727–1796).

He received training at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts from artist Guillaume Taraval (1701–1750) and architect Jean Eric Rehn (1717–1793). Between 1757 and 1758, Hilleström made a study trip abroad. The journey went to Paris, Belgium and Holland. He furthered his education in the tapestry techniques and became a master tapestry weaver.

From 1759, he operated a weaving workshop in Stockholm. In 1773, Hilleström became a member of the board of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. The academy appointed him a professor in drawing in 1794. In 1805 he received the post of Vice-Chancellor of the academy and in 1810 he succeeded Louis Masreliez (1748–1810) as Director.{{cite web|url= http://emp-web-84.zetcom.ch/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=artist&objectId=7375 |title=Johan Philip Korn

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Style

Hilleström painted some thirty portraits. He also performed a large number of depictions from the environments of the time.

He produced numerous genre paintings of people at their daily tasks inside upper- and middle-class homes in Stockholm. Dresses and furniture were painted exactly the way they looked and provide a valuable source of information about what life was like in those days. In addition to this, he painted craftsmen in action at mills and other early industrial workplaces. In later years, he also began to paint historic paintings and religious motives.{{cite web|url= https://runeberg.org/sbh/a0499.html|title= Hilleström, Per |publisher= Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon|access-date=March 1, 2019}}

Personal life

In 1759 he married Ulrica Lode (1737–1779). Hilleström was the father of the artist Carl Petter Hilleström (1760–1812). His descendants included author and museum curator, Gustaf Hilleström (1911–1994).{{cite web|url= https://runeberg.org/sbh/a0499.html|title= Carl Peter Hilleström |publisher= Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon |access-date=March 1, 2019}}{{cite web|url= https://www.idref.fr/197882862

|title= Hilleström, Gustaf (1911-1994)|publisher=L’Abes|accessdate=March 1, 2019}}

Gallery

File:In the Anchor-Forge at Söderfors. The Smiths Hard at Work (Pehr Hilleström d.ä.) - Nationalmuseum - 17964.tif|In the Anchor-Forge at Söderfors. The Smiths Hard at Work (Nationalmuseum)

File:Pehr Hilleström - People from Mora in Dalecarlia - Google Art Project.jpg|People from Mora in Dalecarlia

File:Pehr Hilleström-En piga höser såppa utur en kiettel - i en skål.jpg|A maid taking soup from a pot

File:Pehr Hilleström-Carl Michael Bellman.jpg|Portrait of Carl Michael Bellman

File:Testing Eggs. Interior of a Kitchen (Pehr Hilleström d.ä.) - Nationalmuseum - 18113.tif|Egg testing

File:Pehr Hilleström-Bordssällskap i en bondstuga.jpg|Convivial Scene in a Peasant's Cottage

File:Pehr Hilleström - Den förtrollade skogen.jpg|The enchanted forest, tournament at Drottningholm

File:Pehr Hilleström-Två tjänsteflickor vid en bäck.jpg|Two Maid-Servants at a Brook

File:The Morning Toilet. Boudoir Scene (Pehr Hilleström d.ä.) - Nationalmuseum - 18152.tif|The Morning Toilet

File:Pehr Hilleström-Stilleben.jpg|Still Life

File:Gustavian Style Interior with Cardplayers (Pehr Hilleström d.ä.) - Nationalmuseum - 19464.tif|Gustavian Style Interior with Cardplayers, c. 1779

References

Other sources

[https://runeberg.org/nfbk/0369.html Pehr Hilleström in Nordisk Familjebok] (in Swedish)
[http://www.historiesajten.se/visainfo.asp?id=584 Historiesajten.se] (in Swedish)