Axel Tallberg

Axel Tallberg (23 September 1860 – 8 January 1928) was a Swedish visual artist and engraver.

He is remembered for his etching course at the Royal Swedish Academy of Art and for his portraits, including those of King Oscar II, Leo Tolstoy and Theodore Roosevelt.

After graduating from the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied from 1878 to 1882, he spent a year in Düsseldorf, perfecting his landscape painting technique, especially the use of watercolours.

After visiting Italy, France, Spain, North Africa and Germany, he went to England where from 1889 to 1895 he resided in Burnham to the west of London where he became associated with Swedish etchers.

From 1902, he was Scandinavia's correspondent to the English art journal The Studio and was buried at Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.