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Finnberg, Gustaf [Kustaa] Wilhelm
(b Parainen, 21 Nov 1784; d Stockholm, 28 June 1833). Finnish painter. He passed the Handicraft Painters Guild apprentice examination in Turku in 1805. He spent the years 1806 to 1820 in Stockholm, where he studied at the Konstakademi (1806–8 and 1810–14), and where he had the opportunity to study the work of Rembrandt. He was also influenced by the Romantic tendencies of later 18th-century English art, through the mediation of two Swedish artists who had studied in England and subsequently taught at the Royal School of Art: the portrait painter Carl Fredrik von Breda and the landscape painter Elias Martin. Finnberg hoped for a career as a history painter, but most of the works he produced in Stockholm were the portraits with which he made his living. Finnberg’s portraits, for example Marie Sophie Aminoff (c. 1822; Finland, priv. col., see 1984 exh. cat., p. 37), are striking for their penetrating analysis of facial expression as a record of the sitter’s character. Finnberg also painted miniatures, such as Portrait of a Lady (watercolour, 1810s; Uddevalla, Bohusläns Mus.), and city- and landscapes, such as Arsenalsgatan (before 1825; Stockholm, priv. col., see 1984 exh. cat., p. 24), dating from before 1825.
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