Background
Born on Christmas Day 1859 in Stockholm, Palm de Rosa was the daughter of the painter Gustaf Wilhelm Palm and Eva Sandberg, who was the daughter of the painter Johan Gustaf Sandberg.
Born on Christmas Day 1859 in Stockholm, Palm de Rosa was the daughter of the painter Gustaf Wilhelm Palm and Eva Sandberg, who was the daughter of the painter Johan Gustaf Sandberg.
Anna Palm was educated privately by her father who taught at the Elementary Drawing School (Elementarteckningsskolan) which prepared students for the Royal Swedish Academy of Artist
In the 1890s she became one of Sweden"s most popular painters with her watercolours of steamers and sailing ships and scenes of Stockholm. She also painted a memorable picture of a game of cards in Skagen"s Brøndums Hotel while she spent a summer with the Skagen Painters. The family home at Number.
She did not attend the Academy itself as it was still unusual for women to study there.
In the 1880s, she became a student of the Historist painter Edvard Perseus and the landscape painter Per Daniel Holm. She also went to Antwerp where she studied under the marine painter Romain Steppe before spending some time in Paris.
Palm de Rosa was one of 84 artists who signed a letter in 1885 calling for radical changes in the Swedish Academy"s teaching which they considered to be outdated. She nevertheless exhibited at the Academy in 1885 and 1887 and from 1889 to 1891 taught watercolour painting there.
The watercolours of marine scenes with steamers and sailing ships she painted around this time contributed to her rising popularity.
She began to produce numerous small vedute to satisfy her many customers while also painting scenes of the city of Stockholm. On New Year"s Eve 1985, at the age of 36, she left Sweden never to return. After their wedding in Paris in 1901, the couple moved first to Capri, then finally settled in the Madonna dell"Arco district of Sant"Anastasia near Naples in 1908.
In addition to scenes of Italian life, she continued to paint landscapes of Stockholm including scenes of Gustaf Adolfs torv with the opera building as well as views of the 1897 Art and Industrial Exposition.
The only explanation for her interest in such recent developments is that she must have received photographs from Sweden as a basis for her paintings. She may well have used of photographs taken by the Stockholm photographer Frans G. Klemming (who also was behind some of Robert Lundberg"s oil paintings) but she probably drew on views taken by various photographers.
After the war, she grew increasingly frail until her death in May 1924.
She was also a member of the recently formed association: Svenska konstnärinnor (Swedish female artists) together with Eva Bonnier, Hanna Pauli and Mina Bredberg.