The Önningeby artists' colony was founded in 1886 by Victor Westerholm, a Finnish landscape painter, who had a summer house in the village of Önningeby in Åland in the Baltic Sea. It attracted Finnish
Artists at Önningeby in 1886. On the front from left: Hanna Rönnberg, Hilma Westerholm, Elin Danielson and Nina Ahlstedt. Behind them sitting in the chair Fredrik Ahlstedt and standing by him Victor Westerholm. Sitting on the ground in the back Alex Federley and standing behind him J. A. G. Acke.
Kor i björkskog (Cows in a birch forest), Victor Westerholm, 1886
Grinden (The Gate), Nina Ahlstedt, 1886
Elin Kleopatra Danielson-Gambogi was a Finnish painter, best known for her realist works and portraits. Danielson-Gambogi was part of the first generation of Finnish women artists who received profess
Photographed in the 1880s
Mother, 1893, modeled by the artist's sister
Young Mother (Girl from Brittany), 1885