Oscar Gustaf Björck was born in Stockholm, Sweden on 15 January 1860, the son of Albert Björck, a goldsmith, and Augusta (neé Pihlgren). In 1877, he was accepted into the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, where he studied under the Swedish genre painter, Edvard Perséus. Much of his painting during this period was religious in nature, and in 1882, his final year at the Academy, he was awarded the Roya…

Provenance

The Lawrence Alkin Collection; Private collection, Sydney

Exhibitions

'The Lawrence Alkin Collection', Chris Beetles Gallery, London May-July 2026, no 43