Amalia Lindegren

Amalia Euphrosyne Lindegren (22 May 1814 – 27 December 1891) was a famous Swedish painter.
Life
She became an orphan when her mother died in 1817. Then, she was adopted by the widow of Benjamin Sandel. Benjamin Sandel is thought to have been her real father.

Amalia liked to draw and wanted to become an artist. When the artist Qvarnström saw her drawings, he got her a permission to study art at the Swedish Academy of Arts in 1849. They thought she was very promising and had great talent. In 1850, she became the first woman who got a scholarship by the Academy to study art in Paris.

In 1856, she was elected to become a member in to the Swedish Academy of Arts. She showed people her paintings in the exhibitions in Paris in 1867, Philadelphia in 1876, and in Chicago in 1893.

Related pages
 Lea Ahlborn
Düsseldorf school of painting

 Sources 
 Österberg, Carin et al., Svenska kvinnor: föregångare, nyskapare. Lund: Signum 1990. ()

Category:1814 births
Category:1891 deaths
Category:Swedish painters
Category:19th-century artists