How to Pronounce Gustaf Wilhelm Finnberg
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Nov 24, 1784 Pargas, South Western Finland Regional State Administrative Agency, Finland Died on 28 Jun 1833 (aged 48)
Finnish painter
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About Gustaf Wilhelm Finnberg
- Gustaf Wilhelm Finnberg (21 November 1784 – 28 June 1833) was a Finnish painter. Finnberg was born in Pargas to a poor family.
- At the age of 17 he studied painting, and in 1805 he took and passed the Handicraft Painters Guild apprentice examination in Turku.
- He spent the years 1806 to 1820 in Stockholm, where he studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, although he never graduated.
- While his primary interest was historical paintings, he made his living through painting portraits.
- He also executed some miniatures and landscape works.
- The painter Robert Wilhelm Ekman studied under Finnberg in early 1824. Many of his works were destroyed by the Great Fire of Turku, which affected Finnberg's life and career.
- He left Turku and went to Stockholm afterwards in 1824.
- Other than some works inspired by the fire, Finnberg struggled to make a living as an artist until his death on 28 June 1833.
