Elsa Celsing

Elsa Celsing (25 March 1880 – 19 April 1974), also known as Elsa Backlund-Celsing, was a Russian-Swedish artist known for her portraits, still lifes, and scenes of domestic life.

Born Elsa Carolina Backlund, she was the daughter of Swedish-Russian astronomer Oskar Backlund and Ulrika Widebeck.

She studied art in nearby St. Petersburg with Ilya Repin and later with Anders Zorn in Sweden and Eugène Carrière in Paris.

In 1912, she married Ulrik Fredrik Adolf Hugo Celsing, an agronomist, and moved to Sweden.

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