Ásgrímur Jónsson

Ásgrímur Jónsson (March 4, 1876 – April 5, 1958) was an Icelandic painter, and one of the first in the country to make art a professional living.

Ásgrímur influenced many artists in Iceland including Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval.

These consisted of 192 oil paintings and 277 water colours together with a great number of unfinished pictures dating from various periods in his life.

His house is now the Ásgrímur Jónsson Collection, part of the National Gallery of Iceland.

He was an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts and Knight of Dannebrog, first class.