Ellen Favorin

 ( 1853 Births ) 

Elsa "Ellen" Favorin (31 December 1853 Kuorevesi – 27 November 1919 Lohja) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish painter.

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Biography Her parents were Anders Abraham Favorin and Lovisa Ingman. After attending the painting schools in Helsinki and Stockholm, she continued her studies in Munich, Düsseldorf and at the Académie Julian in Paris. She often painted landscapes and was one of the artists who joined Victor Westerholm in the artists' colony at Önningeby on the island of Åland. She died together with her sister in a fire at their home in Lohja in 1919.

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Categories: 1853 Births, 1919 Deaths, People From Inari, Finland, Swedish-speaking Finns, 19th-century Finnish Painters, 19th-century Finnish Women Artists, 20th-century Finnish Painters, Académie Julian Alumni, Deaths From Fire, Accidental Deaths In Finland, 20th-century Finnish Women Painters, 19th-century Women Painters

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