Elin Kleopatra Danielson-Gambogi (née Danielson; 3 September 1861 – 31 December 1919) was a Finnish painter, best known for her realist works and portraits.

[1][2][3] Elin Danielson was born in the small village of Noormarkku, near the city of Pori in Western Finland.

Following the tragedy, and surrounded by the strong female figures of her mother, aunt, and grandmother, Danielson adapted an independent survival strategy.

[4] At the age of 15, Danielson moved to Helsinki and began studying in the Academy of Fine Arts, where her teachers included Carl Eneas Sjöstrand and Hjalmar Munsterhjelm.

[12] Because of World War I, her connection to her homeland was cut, and by the time she died, of pneumonia, at Antignano in 1919, she had been mostly forgotten in Finland.

[13] Because of her choice of rare subject matters that often even caused some offence, Danielson is now seen as one of the central artists of the Golden Age of Finnish Art.