Oscar Törnå

Oscar Emil Törnå (18 October 1842 - 3 June 1894) was a Swedish landscape painter, illustrator and graphic artist.

[2] Impatient to receive a travel scholarship, he took off on his own in 1873 and went to Düsseldorf, but was not pleased with their teaching methods and later felt that he had wasted his time there.

[4] In 1877, he exhibited two landscape paintings at the Salon and they received praise from the critic, Louis Edmond Duranty.

This time, he made an impression, as most Swedish landscape painters were still making sketches outdoors and completing their paintings in their studios, rather than working en plein aire.

[6] In 1885, he joined a group known as the Opponents (Opponenterna) which was protesting what they felt were the outmoded methods of teaching at the Royal Academy.