Robert Thegerström

After finishing his primary education, he worked in his father's company for a year before entering the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts.

His fellow students there included Ernst Josephson, Carl Larsson, Bruno Liljefors and Richard Bergh, who would later join to create a dissident group known as the Opponent movement (Opponenterna) who were seeking modernization and reform of art education, exhibition activities and artist support.

In 1881, he travelled with Swedish painters Karl Nordström and Allan Österlind to paint in Lyons-la-Forêt and spent several summers at the art colony in Grez-sur-Loing.

After his return, he married Elin Lamm and they took their honeymoon in Egypt, where he made numerous sketches of the people and architecture.

His works is exhibited at the Nationalmuseum,[7] Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Gothenburg Museum of Art[8] and the Östergötlands nation in Uppsala.