Johan Christoffer Boklund

Johan Christoffer Boklund was a Swedish history, genre, and portrait painter from Kulla-Gunnarstorp in Scania. He was the son of a gardener. At the age of fifteen, Boklund came to Lund, where he worked on illustrations for Sven Nilsson's works on Scandinavian fauna. He then became a student at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen where J. L. Lund was his teacher.