Sven Richard Bergh (28 December 1858 – 29 January 1919) was a Swedish painter, art critic and museum manager.

He began his formal studies with Edvard Perséus, at his private school then, from 1878 to 1881, at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts.

That same year, he joined with the Swedish artists who became known as the opponents (Opponenterna); a group that was protesting what they felt were the outmoded teaching methods at the Academy.

Together with Nils Kreuger and Karl Nordström, old friends of his from the Academy, a new style of landscape painting was created which became known as the Varberg School [sv] (Varbergsskolan).

He also found himself more attracted to Romantic Nationalism; a predilection that was strengthened by a stay in Italy from 1897 to 1898, where the art he observed impressed him as representing exactly the opposite.

Despite this apparent retirement, in 1915 he accepted an appointment as curator (Överintendent) and director of the Nationalmuseum; spending his last years on a modernization project that featured new purchasing guidelines.