Lovisa Fredrika Solhlberg

Lovisa Fredrika Sohlberg (1756–1798), m. 1. Salsvärd, 2. Leijonhufvud. By Emanuel Thelning, circa 1798.

Lovisa Sohlberg’s father Harald Sohlberg was the Swedish Royal Navy’s master shipbuilder. When Lovisa was born, the family lived in Stockholm, but they later moved to Karlskrona. Lovisa Sohlberg married Jakob Salsvärd, captain of the Navy 20 years older than her, in Karlskrona in the spring of 1775. Salsvärd, from Västerås, was stationed in Viapori in 1772, and that is where the couple settled. They had two daughters. Sahlsvärd died in 1785 at the age of 49, and Lovisa was remarried two years later to Colonel Baron Axel Gabriel Leijonhufvud. Lovisa Fredrika died in 1798 at the age of 42 in Helsinki.

Emanuel Thelning was a Swedish miniature painter who worked in Finland in 1798–1813, especially in Helsinki and Viapori, painting portraits of officers and bourgeois families. If Lovisa Sohlberg’s miniature was painted when Thelning was already in Helsinki, it was painted just before Lovisa’s death on 22 March 1798 or posthumously after her death.

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