Comments on: Albert Edelfelt

By: Charley Parker

Charley Parker — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:04:19 +0000

Wonderful. Thanks, Leena!

By: Leena Viitala

Leena Viitala — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:00:26 +0000

And here’s some additional information about Edelfelt in English: http://www.douglasproductions.fi/ruotsi/AlbertEdelfelt_eng.pdf

By: Leena Viitala

Leena Viitala — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:54:46 +0000

Hi!
Here you can find many paintings by Edelfelt: http://www.fng.fi/cgibin/art.pl?en_home_artist_empty_empty_aedelfel_X0622300=aedelfel&version=html4#X0622300
And by the way, he was not a Swedish person living in Finland – he was Finnish, but part of Finnish people are Swedish-speaking.
There are many books and biographies about Edelfelt, but unfortunately mostly in Finnish…

By: Charley Parker

Charley Parker — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:48:36 +0000

My pleasure, Michael.

I’m looking forward to the additions to the series!

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:59:37 +0000

Thanks for the link Charley. It caused quite a spike in my stats!
Revenge will be mine! :)

I’ll be putting some more `Painters that I should have heard ofÂ´ under the spotlight soon.

By: Charley Parker

Charley Parker — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:45:25 +0000

Thanks, Dan. I agree. It’s also like the wonderfully painterly portraits painted by artists like Chase, Sargent and Cecilia Beaux.

By: Daniel van Benthuysen

Daniel van Benthuysen — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:35:47 +0000

The image you show here represents a popular theme of its day, well-developed by artists like William Merrit Chase: the svelte and well-to-do young patron in the studio admiring the artist’s work.

Particularly admirable in this rendering are, first, the seemingly effortless color choices that capture the translucent quality of the print the young lady holds, and second, the high-contrast, almost backlit rendering of the artist’s easel, canvas and materials at the right edge.