Anders Zorn, Swedish artist (d. 1920)
Anders Leonard Zorn (18 February 1860 – 22 August 1920) was a Swedish painter. He obtained international success as a painter, sculptor, and etcher. Among Zorn's portrait subjects were King Oscar II of Sweden, and three American Presidents, Grover Cleveland, William H. Taft, and Theodore Roosevelt. At the end of his life, he established the Swedish literary Bellman Prize in 1920.
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