The New International Encyclopædia/Lundgren, Egron Sellif

LUNDGREN, lōōnd'grĕn, Egron Sellif (1815-75). A Swedish water-color painter. He was born at Stockholm, December 18, 1815. He studied at the Academy of Stockholm, and afterwards in Paris under Cogniet. He sojourned in Italy, 1841-49, devoting himself to water-colors. From there he went to Spain and then to England, where he was commissioned by Queen Victoria to paint ceremonial pictures. He was sent to India during the war in 1858, the results of which expedition were a series of five hundred sketches, including numerous portraits. His best works include “San Vitale, Ravenna,” and the “Library, Siena,” both in the National Museum, Stockholm; “Feast of Corpus Domini in Rome” (1841), Royal Palace, Stockholm; and a series of illustrations to “Old Swedish Tales” (1875).