̃órarinn B. ̃orláksson

  ̃órarinn B. ̃orláksson

Þórarinn Benedikt Þorláksson (February 14, 1867 – July 10, 1924[1]) was one of Iceland's first contemporary painters, the first Icelander to exhibit paintings in Iceland, and recipient of the first public grant that country made to a painter.Þorláksson was born in 1867, the 13th of 14 children of a clergyman father, who died when Þorláksson was just five years old. Originally trained and working as a bookbinder, Þorláksson studied painting under a Copenhagen-trained Icelandic woman, Thóra Thoroddsen. In 1900 he was awarded a grant by the Icelandic Parliament to study art in Denmark, and he trained there from 1895 to 1899. Returning to Iceland, he held an exhibition of his works at a place perplexingly called Glasgow, in Reykjavík, in the summer of 1900—the first exhibition of Icelandic painting in Iceland. Þorláksson's principal interest was landscape painting, and perhaps fittingly a dominant subject in this first exhibition of works was Þingvellir, a site of enormous historical significance to Icelanders as the site of their parliaments (which dated back to 930 AD).

  ̃órarinn B. ̃orláksson

  ̃órarinn B. ̃orláksson

  ̃órarinn B. ̃orláksson

  ̃órarinn B. ̃orláksson

  ̃órarinn B. ̃orláksson

  ̃órarinn B. ̃orláksson

  ̃órarinn B. ̃orláksson

  ̃órarinn B. ̃orláksson

  ̃órarinn B. ̃orláksson

  ̃órarinn B. ̃orláksson

  ̃órarinn B. ̃orláksson