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ANDERS ZORN 1860-1920 Portrait of the Daughters of Ramón Subercaseaux Vicuña Signed and dated Zorn 1892. Oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm. Executed in Paris . PROVENIENS Commissioned by consul Ramón Subercaseaux Vicuña (1854-1937) in Paris 1892 thence by descent to his cousin Matias Errázuriz Ortúzar, Buenos Aires (1937) thence by descent to his daughter Josefina Errázuriz Alvear de Gómez, Buenos Aires Sotheby´s, New York, October 27, 1988, catalogue No 141 Åmells Fine Art Gallery, Stockholm Private Collection, Stockholm Sotheby's, New York, 28 maj 1992, catalogue No 117 acquired at the above sale . UTSTÄLLD Salon, Paris 1892 . . The National Museum in Stockholm, in collaboration with Petit Palais in Paris, would like to include this painting in the upcomping and important exposition "Anders Zorn - Le maître de la peinture suédoise", which will take place at Petit Palais, September 15 - Décember 17, 2017. . . ANDERS ZORN - Sweden's Master Painter Anders Zorn is one of Sweden's most accomplished and beloved artists, obtaining fame with his technical virtuosity. He had an international success as one of the most acclaimed portrait painters of his era. His sitters included three American Presidents (Grover Cleveland, William H. Taft and Theodor Roosevelt), the King Oscar II and Queen Sofia of Sweden, European nobility and numerous members of the international high society. . Zorn grew up in his maternal grandparents' home in Mora, in the county of Dalarna. In 1875 he went to Stockholm to study at the Royal Academy of Art. His extraordinary talent led to immediate fame, and he received so many commissions that he no longer had any time to spare for his academic studies. He left the Academy in 1881. At that time Zorn mainly worked in water colour. Hoping to find a market for his work he went to London in 1882, where he stayed for three years. A later visit to St. Ives in the winter of 1887 gave him the impulse to start experimenting with oil. . Anders Zorn moved to Paris with his wife Emma Lamm in the spring of 1888, they lived first at 11 rue Daubigny in the Quartier Monceau, and then on 71 Boulevard de Clichy in Montmartre, where they would remain until 1896. He came into contact with fellow artists such as the portrait painters John Singer Sargent and Giovanni Boldini establishing himself as a successful society portraitist, depicting fashionable clients in a style both elegant and relaxed. When he settled in Paris he changed his medium definitively from water colour to oil. His stay in Paris for almost eight years became a period of great importance to his development as a painter. Beginning with the year 1889, Zorn enjoyed several great successes at the French Salon. In 1893 he made the first of several visits to America, where he became much sought-after as a portrait painter. In 1893 Zorn travelled to Chicago as commissioner for the Swedish section of the World Fair. . The present portrait was commissioned in Paris by Ramón Subercaseaux to paint the portrait of his youngest daughters Blanca and Isabel. Zorn was probably introduced to Subercaseaux by Sargent, who painted a notable portrait of Subercaseaux' wife Amalia Errázuriz Urmeneta. Boldini also painted portraits of the Subercaseaux family, for example the double portrait of the two elder sons Luis and Pedro, in 1887. . The Chilean painter, politician and diplomat Don Ramón Subercaseaux Vicuña (1854-1937), born to a prominent and wealthy Chilean family, married his compatriote Amalia Errázuriz Urmenta in 1879. Three years later he became Chilean consul in Paris. The couple had six children and lived in a fashionable apartment on the avenue de Bois-de-Boulogne. In Paris they developed close friendships with several prominent artists, including Sargent and Boldini. Ramón Subercaseaux would end his successful career as Chilean Ambassador to the Holy See during the pontificate of Pius XII. . While Boldini's and Sargent's portraits of the Subercaseaux family portray them conventi