What is Amalia Lindegren?
[[File:Drottning Lovisa av Danmark 1851-1926 av Amalia Lindegren.jpg|thumb|right|Amalia Lindegren]] '''Amalia Euphrosyne Lindegren''' (22 May 1814 – 27 December 1891) was a famous [[Swedish people|Swedish]] [[painter]]. ==Life== She became an [[orphan]] when her mother died in [[1817]]. Then, she was adopted by the widow of Benjamin Sandel. Benjamin Sandel is thought to have been her real father. Amalia liked to draw and wanted to become an [[artist]]. When the artist Qvarnström saw her drawings, he got her a permission to study art at the [[Swedish Academy of Arts]] in [[1849]]. They thought she was very promising and had great talent. In [[1850]], she became the first woman who got a scholarship by the Academy to study art in [[Paris]]. In [[1856]], she was elected to become a member in to the Swedish Academy of Arts. She showed people her paintings in the exhibitions in [[Paris]] in [[1867]], [[Philadelphia]] in [[1876]], and in [[Chicago]] in [[1893]]. ==Related pages== * [[Lea Ahlborn]] *[[Düsseldorf school of painting]] == Sources == * Österberg, Carin et al., ''Svenska kvinnor: föregångare, nyskapare''. Lund: Signum 1990. ({{ISBN|91-87896-03-6}}) {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lindegren, Amalia}} [[Category:1814 births]] [[Category:1891 deaths]] [[Category:Swedish painters]] [[Category:19th-century artists]]