ANDERS LEONARD ZORN (Mora 1860- 1920 Stockholm)

After studies at the Royal Academy in Stockholm, Zorn started travelling throughout Europe, to Italy from 1886. Between October and November 1894, travelling with his wife Emma, he was the guest of the collector Isabella Stewart Gardner and her husband Jack at the Palazzo Barbaro in Venice. During the stay, he painted a portrait of Isabella before the Grand Canal, the painting is now at the Zornmuseet, Mora (inv. ZO 98; see J. Cederlund, in Anders Zorn. Le Maître de la peinture suédoise, exhib. cat., Paris, Musée du Petit Palais, 2017, p. 29, ill.).