Elin Alfhild Nordlund

Elin Alfhild Isabella Nordlund (1861–1941)[1] was a Swedish-speaking Finnish painter.

[2] Examples of her work are in the permanent collection in the Önningeby Museum and have also been exhibited in the Turku Art Museum and the National Gallery of Finland.

[3][4] Because there is another Finnish painter named Elin Johanna Nordlund [fi] born in 1855, Elin Alfhild Nordlund used her middle name Alfhild, signing her works E. A. N.[5] Elin first studied in Turku Drawing School in 1881-1884, and later drawing, painting and calligraphy with Adolf von Becker in Helsinki.

In 1887-88 she continued in Copenhagen with Peder Severin Krøyer and Julius Paulsen, where she also studied wood cutting, and subsequently offering cutting classes and the theory of perspective (graphical).

In 1889 Elin got a position of drawing teacher at Heurlinska School and subsequently in two liceums in Helsinki.