Name Gustaf Finnberg | ||
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Died June 28, 1833, Stockholm, Sweden | ||
Gustaf Wilhelm Finnberg (November 21, 1784 – June 28, 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 June 28, 1833.