Hildegard Katarina Thorell, née Bergendal, 22 May 1850 – 2 February 1930, was a Swedish painter.

[1] Thorell was born in Kroppa parish, Värmland County, Sweden.

She studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm from 1876 to 1879,[2] where she was the only married female student.

She became an agré at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in 1883 and was apprenticed to Bertha Wegmann.

Later she travelled to Paris, where she studied with Léon Bonnat and Jean-Léon Gérôme.