Ernest Thiel

[5] In 1884 he had married Anna Josephson, member of a well-known Jewish family and sister-in-law of the publisher Karl Otto Bonnier.

[6] He caused a scandal when he divorced her (1896–1897) to marry Signe Maria Hansen, a young and beautiful widow with literary and artistic interests who had been his wife's companion.

[7] The deflation crisis of 1920–1922 was one of the factors that led to Thiel's equity portfolio rapidly falling in value and his financial assets being destroyed.

[8] The flat at Strandvägen into which he had moved with second wife in 1897 started to be cramped, and in 1904, Thiel commissioned the architect Ferdinand Boberg to build him a large villa at Blockhusudden in the Djurgården park area of Stockholm.

[10] Prince Eugen, the painter and collector, had recently had Boberg design a combined residence and art gallery at Waldemarsudde in another part of Djurgården, which may have influenced Thiel.