Edvard Perséus

Edvard Perséus, originally Persson (23 December 1841, in Lund – 7 October 1890, in Stockholm) was a Swedish painter and hovintendent (a form of superintendent) at the Royal Court of Sweden.

In 1861, he was able to go to Stockholm and enroll at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied with Johan Christoffer Boklund.

In addition, he would try to interest them in painting his own favorite historical subjects, but anything was acceptable as long as it came naturally.

The key to his success was simple encouragement; believing that if you were honest and diligent and "if you were alive", you could learn to paint.

[1] Among his best known students were Richard Bergh, Oscar Björck, Nils Kreuger, Eugène Jansson, Carl Fredrik von Saltza, J.