Anna Gardell-Ericson

Anna Maria Gardell-Ericson (10 October 1853, Visby – 2 June 1939, Stockholm) was a Swedish painter and watercolorist. She specialized in coastal scenes and landscapes with lakes or rivers.

Biography Her father, Johan, is generally described as a landscape painter, although he may have been primarily a local administrative officer.

At the age of sixteen, she began painting and displayed sufficient talent for her to be sent to Switzerland to begin her studies. Later, she studied with Per Daniel Holm at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm;

Shortly before her death, she wrote her memoirs, but these have yet to be published. Major retrospectives were held in 1939 and 1946.

Selected paintings