Elin Danielson-Gambogi

Elin Kleopatra Danielson-Gambogi (Known as "Elin Danielson")

Master Realist Painter, Önningeby Artists' Colony Member, Salon Laureate

Born Sep 03, 1861

Noormarkku, Finland

Passed Away Dec 31, 1919 Antignano, Livorno, Italy, Finland

Lifespan 58 years old

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"An artist must paint without compromise, capturing the unadorned truth of modern human life."

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Brilliant realist painter of the Golden Age whose unvarnished depictions of modern female independence ('After Breakfast') and luminous Tuscan and Åland plein-air canvases broke Victorian conventions.

Biographical Record

Elin Kleopatra Danielson was born in Noormarkku on September 3, 1861. Graduating from the Finnish Art Society Drawing School at age nineteen, she studied in Paris under Gustave Courtois, joining the famous Önningeby Artists' Colony on the Åland Islands.

Her 1890 masterpiece After Breakfast (Aamiaisen jälkeen), showing a young woman smoking a cigarette casually at an uncleaned breakfast table, shocked conservative critics with its bold realist modernity. Moving to Tuscany after marrying Italian painter Raffaello Gambogi, she painted luminous Mediterranean light and Italian peasants until her death in 1919.

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Misericordia Cemetery of Antignano
Livorno, Tuscany, Italy

                         GPS: 43.5040, 10.3200                    

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