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Martha Mercer, née Dana (1872–1960) was a US art collector and philanthropist.. She was the daughter of Charles Stratton Dana of the Dana family of Boston.She became friends with Isabella Stewart Gardner who arranged for her to have her portrait painted by Anders Zorn in 1899.
Anders Leonard Zorn (18 February 1860 – 22 August 1920) was a Swedish artist who attained international success as a painter, sculptor, and etching artist. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His portrait subjects include King Oscar II of Sweden and three American Presidents : Grover Cleveland , William H. Taft , and Theodore Roosevelt .
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Anders Zorn, En premiär.First version, gouache on paper, 1888, 76 cm × 56 cm (30 in × 22 in). Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. En premiär (Swedish for "A Première" or "The First Time", sometimes known by its French title Une Première) is an artwork by Swedish artist Anders Zorn, with several versions created from 1888 to 1895.
While Boldini's portraits of the Subercaseaux boys portray them conventionally as aware of the viewer, Zorn's portrait of the girls captures their private world, unaware of the viewer's gaze. To this end, Zorn adopts an unusual perspective, tilting the plane of the floor upwards and assuming the position of the girls himself.
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A kulla knitting, painting by Anders Zorn, 1901. Kulla (plural kullor [1]) is an older dialectal name for an unmarried woman, used often in most region of Sweden in the vicinity of Dalarna, but in present time mostly used as a term for a woman from Dalarna ("dalkulla"). [2] [3] In the oldest known source from 1640, kulla is synonymous with "woman."
The Zorn Collections, or Zornsamlingarna, is a Swedish state museum, located in Mora, dedicated to preserving the works by painter Anders Zorn. Anders Zorn was one of Sweden's internationally best known artists. His fame abroad was founded mainly on his portraiture, with his ability to capture the character and personality of the depicted person.