Born 1860 and raised on his grandparents’ farm in Yvraden, a hamlet near the village of Utmeland in the parish of Mora, Dalarna, Swedish artist Anders Leonard Zorn attained international success as a painter, sculptor, and etching artist. Among his portrait subjects include King Oscar II of Sweden and three American Presidents: Grover Cleveland, William H. Taft, and Theodore Roosevelt.
At the age of 29, Zorn was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur at the Exposition Universelle 1889 Paris World Fair. His art made him wealthy and he was thus able to build up a considerable collection of art. The objects were not only bought in his native country but also during the many travels he made abroad. In their joint will, Zorn and his wife Emma Lamm donated their entire holdings to the Swedish State.
At the end of his life, Zorn established the Swedish literary Bellman Prize in 1920. He died that same year, at the age of 60. Here below is a set of beautiful paintings by Anders Zorn in the 1880s and 1890s.
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