Per Södermark

Johan Per Södermark (5 June 1822, Mossebro, Karlsborg Municipality - 16 November 1889, Stockholm) was a Swedish military officer, painter and lithographer.

His father, Olof Johan Södermark, was a military topographer and aspiring artist.

[1] He participated in numerous exhibitions of the Academy and a major showing at Copenhagen's Charlottenborg Palace in 1851.

Among his most familiar sitters, outside Sweden, were the artists, Nils Blommér, and Fritz von Dardel, who also began as a military officer, and the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana.

In additional to the Nationalmuseum, his works may be seen at the Academy's art gallery, Waldemarsudde and the Nordic Museum.