Carl Johan Billmark

Portrait of Billmark

Carl Johan Billmark(1804–1870) was a Swedish landscape painter.

Life

Billmark was born atStockholmin 1804. He visitedDalecarlia,St. Petersburg,and Paris, where he studied underDeroy.From 1828 to 1830 he published 100lithographiclandscape studies, and in 1833, whilst in Paris, he produced 29 works, representing the scenery of his native country; and later on 24 plates of views on theRhine,and also 100 plates in a work entitled,Journey from Stockholm toNaples.He was a member of theAcademy of Stockholm,and received the decoration of theWasa order.He died in Paris in 1870.

Panorama of Stockholm, 1868.

Sources

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain:Bryan, Michael(1886)."Billmark, Carl Johann".In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.).Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K).Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.