Swedish Bonad or wall painting. Dated 1844. Like the American fracture, this is the Swedish equivalent but much larger. The itinerant artist would visit the customer and inquire what subject they would like, most people wanted religious scenes, and they adorned their walls at Christmas or Easter and so on. The value of these paintings depends on who painted them. This one I understand to be by Per Svensson. He was an apprentice to Johannes Nilsson who was a renowned artist in his own right. Sevenssons paintings are easy to recognize because of the baby faces of his subjects and he didn’t like empty spaces so he filled them up with circles. Size: 50in by 50in.