Education
From 1861 to 1863, he studied at the Royal Danish Academy, at the Royal Swedish Academy from 1864 to 1867, and thereafter in Düsseldorf until 1872.
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Wilhelm Gegerfelt
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Career
Born in Gothenburg, Gegerfelt was the son the architect Victor von Gegerfelt. He then went to Paris where he developed a new technique joining Alfred Wahlberg as one of the first Swedes to represent the Modern Breakthrough in Nordic art He travelled to the north coast of France, to Italy and to England, painting landscapes of Venice"s lagoons and the English chalk cliffs, in addition to scenes of summer evenings in Sweden.
In Paris, he sold his paintings to the Duke of Bassano as well as to Goupil & Cie.
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Gagerfelt spent his later life in the fishing village of Torekov in the south of Sweden.
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1920 (aged 76)