Wilhelmina Krafft was a Swedish painter

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

 and portrait miniaturist, child of the painter Per Krafft the Elder

Per Krafft the Elder

Per Krafft the Elder was a Swedish portraitist. He was the father of the artists Per Krafft the Younger and Wilhelmina Krafft.-Life:He travelled to Paris, where he became a student of Chardin...

 and sister of the artist Per Krafft the Younger

Per Krafft the Younger

Per Krafft the younger was a Swedish painter of portraits and history paintings. He was the son of Per Krafft the elder and the brother of Wilhelmina Krafft. He married Brita Sofia Robsahm .-External links:*...

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Wilhelmina Krafft was born in Stockholm

Stockholm

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. She and her brother acted as models for their father's child-portraits, a genre for which he was famous; one of these paintings portrays Per drawing and Wilhelmina at his feet in admiration (1783) and one other Wilhelmina alone praying (1782). She studied as a child with her brother under the tutoring of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts

Royal Swedish Academy of Arts

The Royal Swedish Academy of Arts or Kungl. Akademien för de fria konsterna, founded in 1773 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden...

 in the 1790s, where her main teacher was L. Sparrgren.

She and her brother debuted together in the 1797 year exhibition by the academy. Her work and talent impressed and she was decorated with the academy's second medal for her work at her first exhibition for her "beautiful prof. works in mignature". The next year, in the exhibition of 1798, she participated with her original miniature portraits

Portrait miniature

A portrait miniature is a miniature portrait painting, usually executed in gouache, watercolour, or enamel.Portrait miniatures began to flourish in 16th century Europe and the art was practiced during the 17th century and 18th century...

. She died in Norrköping

Norrköping

Norrköping is a city in the province of Östergötland in eastern Sweden and the seat of Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County. The city has a population of 87,247 inhabitants in 2010, out of a municipal total of 130,050, making it Sweden's tenth largest city and eighth largest...

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Her style of painting was cold and icy and as such typically representative of the neoclassical

Neoclassicism

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, empire-art of the time. Her daughter Pamela Clementina Noraéus also became a painter.