Egron Lundgren (b. Stockholm 1815, d. sst. 1875)
Portrait of Joseph Magnus Stäck (1812–1868). Signed with monogram and dated 1846. Double inscribed 'J. M. Stäck'. Pencil on paper. Sheet size 21.5×16 cm. Unframed.
Exhibited: The Nivaagaard Collection, “Venskabsportrætter fra Rom”, 2016, Cat. No. 40, mentioned p. 61, ill. p. 60.
Provenance: Circolo Scandinavo / Skandinavisk Forening i Rom (Inv. No. AI 8).
The Swedish painter Egron Lundgren was among the Swedish artists who joined the Danish Golden Age painters in Italy in the 1840s. Rome was an obvious travel destination for Lundgren, who cultivated romantic landscape paintings, which is presumably also one of the reasons why he managed to live there for so long; from 1841 to 1849.
In Rome, he often visited the Caffé Greco, where he met with other Swedish artist colleagues such as Gustaf Wilhelm Palm (1810–1890), Carl Wahlbom (1810–1858), Gustaf Uno Troili (1815–1875), and Joseph Magnus Stäck. In the present portrait, Lundgren has drawn Stäck with a Roman hat, which many of the Scandinavian artists, who came to Rome, wore.
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