Carl d'Unker

Carl Henrik Lützow d'Unker (9 February 1828 – 24 March 1866)[1] was a Swedish artist.

He was known mostly as a socially oriented genre painter whose works depicted contemporary subjects, such as waiting rooms at railway stations or scenes from pawnshops.

His father, Carl Henning d'Unker, was a Norwegian soldier, while his mother, Anna Christina Brunstedt, was a Swedish citizen.

He began his career as a soldier and served in the Svea Life Guards for a short time.

1839), the daughter of master builder Peter Heinrich Gregor Anton Schnitzler (1796–1873), after which he was able to live a carefree life financially.