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Anna Billing

1849 – 1927

Swedish painter

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Lived 1849 – 1927 (aged 77–78). Anna Billing was a Swedish painter.

Anna Svenborg Billing (1849–1927) was a Swedish painter who is remembered for her landscapes and her still-lifes. After being introduced to painting by her father Tore Billing, she trained under Swedish artists including Kerstin Cardon and became a student of the French painter in Paris. She exhibited there at the Salon in 1884. The collection of Sweden's Nationalmuseum includes works by Billing.

Biography Born in Stockholm on 28 May 1849, Anna Billing was the daughter of opera singer Elma Ström and landscape painter . She was first raised in a highly cultural home where, as a small child, she associated with prominent figures of the times including the actor Nils Almlöf, the painter Joseph Magnus Stäck and the composer Jacopo Foroni. The family then moved abroad, to Düsseldorf, Lucerne and Paris, where she attended various schools. In 1859, they returned to Sweden where she attended where she finally attended schools where she could improve her Swedish.

While Billing never legally married, she lived with her life partner Miss Berta Malmgren and was noted as belonging to a household with Malmgren and two maidservants in the 1900 census. Billing died in Stockholm on 4 December 1927.

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1927, Adolf Fredriks parish
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Who was Anna Billing?

Swedish painter (1849-1927)

When was Anna Billing born?

Anna Billing was born on 28 May 1849 in Hedvig Eleonora parish.

When did Anna Billing die?

Anna Billing died in 1927 in Adolf Fredriks parish.

What was Anna Billing's occupation?

Anna Billing was a painter.

What nationality was Anna Billing?

Anna Billing was Swedish.

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· Wikipedia: Anna Billing

· Wikidata: Q4939039

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