Elias Martin
Sweden's first great landscape painter
Elias Martin was a Swedish genre, history, and landscape painter and engraver from Stockholm. He is known for his watercolour paintings of Stockholm, and his landscape oil paintings that feature romantic lighting effects. Nationalencyklopedin describes him as Sweden's "first great landscape painter". Among Martin's most famous works from this time are the paintings he made in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. These include Britomartis befriande Amoret ur trollqvinnans våld (English: Britomart frees Amor from the witch's possession; based on Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene) and Arkebiskop Langton, som af konungen erhåller en handling.
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- Carl Johan Fahlcrantz Student
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Artworks by this artist
- Two Schoolboys
- Young Woman by a Fire Reading a Book 1778
- English Landscape from Mistley Hall, Essex 1772
- View of Stockholm IV
- Portrait of a Gentleman
- Summer Landscape with Water and Tall Trees
- Gustav III’s visit to the Royal Academy of Arts 1782
- The Happy News 1778
- Choi Afock, Aurora Taube and Olof Lindahl
- Johan Fredrik Martin
- View of Stockholm V
- Landscape with a Waterfall and Cattle 1768
- Landscape with Rustics and Cattle 1768
- Coast Landscape
- View of Stockholm II
- Tell Me Mama Do I Finger It Right 1778
- Louisa 1778
- Old Man Begging 1778
- Porträtt av familjen Latrobe of Fulneck
- The Waffle-Baker’s Shop at Djurgården