Esther Gehlin

Esther Gehlin née Henriques (1892–1949) was a Danish-Swedish painter of Jewish descent whose water colours and oils include still lifes, interiors, portraits and landscapes.

Thanks to her father's success in producing knitted products, she was brought up in a well-to-do middle-class Jewish home.

After attending The Technical Institute from 1908, she was admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1911, graduating in 1915.

[2] In 1922 they settled in Helsingborg, first in Raus and from 1925 in a house on St Clemens gata which became a venue for local artists, writers and actors to socialize.

[1][2] For many years, Gehlin painted in water colours and oils, creating portraits, still lifes and landscapes, the latter inspired by views from her home which overlooked the city's port, houses and gardens.