Eva Fredrika Bonnier was a Swedish painter and philanthropist.
Background
Born in Stockholm as a daughter of publisher Albert Bonnier and a member of a leading family of publishers, Eva Bonnier studied painting with August Malmström and became a student in the women"s section of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm in 1878.
Education
Royal University College of Fine Arts.
Career
Her painting "Music" (1889) was awarded a mention honorable at the Paris Salon. After her return to Sweden in 1889, she was active as a painter until about 1900, mostly of portraits, such as those of Lisen Bonnier (her sister-in-law) as convalescent, industrialist Hjalmar Lundbohm, politician Moritz Rubenson, educator Carl Jonas Meijerberg and poet and scholar Oscar Levertin. She is represented with several paintings in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
After about 1900 Bonnier fell silent as an artist and devoted herself to her philanthropic work, enabled through her inherited wealth.
The foundation remains active. Eva Bonnier suffered from frequent depressions and took her own life in 1909.