Romantic landscape

Carl Johan Fahlcrantz has been called the "father of the Swedish landscape painting." He arrived in Stockholm in the early 1790s. Among his teachers may be mentioned Louis Belanger, who came from France to Stockholm in 1798. He also took impressions of Elias Martin's landscape style, when Martin returned to Sweden after a study tour in England. Fahlcrantz never himself left Scandinavia.
Fahlcrantz became a member of the Academy of Arts in Stockholm in 1803 and a professor in 1815. He became an honorary member of several foreign academies, as in Copenhagen, New York and Philadelphia. He received not only orders from the Swedish royal family, but also from Tsar Nicholas I of Russia. Fahlcrantz is known for his veduta paintings and he composed romantic landscapes of forests, mountains, and waterfalls, not infrequently in the evocative morning and evening lighting. In the Swedish art history, he is the most typical romantic. His art was admired much of his time, and he got several imitators.