Victor Forssell
(1846 - 1931)

 

Victor Reinhold Forssell was a Swedish landscape, animal and genre painter. In 1877, unable to obtain a scholarship, he set off on a study trip at his own expense, beginning with Düsseldorf followed by Paris, London and Antwerp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Forssell

At the City Toll Gate
1892
Oil on Canvas
65 x 75 cm
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
https://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=20432&viewType=detailView
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/43475

 

Victor Forssell often took his subject matter from Gotland or Stockholm. His pictures from the capital often show the poorer quarters. The artist’s renderings of these settings are sometimes compared to August Strindberg’s writings set in Stockholm. The main idea behind these paintings was not, however, to paint a picture of street life but to portray the typical character of the townscape, as in this painting from the tollgate at Ladugårdslandet (Östermalm) on an early spring day in 1892.