Prince Eugen Napoleon Nicolaus of Sweden and Norway, Duke of Närke (1 Aug. 1865 – 17 Aug. 1947); Swedish painter, art collector and patron of artists. Prince Eugen was born at Drottningholm Palace, the fourth and youngest son of Prince Oscar, Duke of Östergötland. His mother was Sophia of Nassau. The newborn prince was granted the title of Duke of Närke. Upon the Duke of Östergötland's accession to the thrones of Sweden and Norway as King Oscar II, the Duke of Närke became fourth in line to the throne. However, he was more interested in painting than in reigning. The Duke of Närke was a great admirer of Norwegian nature and frequently visited Christiania (later known as Oslo). His letters show that he preferred its artistic milieu to the more constrained Stockholm one. His most notable Norwegian friends were the painters Erik Werenskiold and Gerhard Munthe; he remained attached to them and to Norway until his death.... After finishing high school, Prince Eugen studied art history at Uppsala University. Although supported by his parents, Prince Eugen did not make the decision to pursue a career in painting easily, not least because of his royal status. He was very open-minded and interested in the radical tendencies of the 1880s. The Duke became one of the era's most prominent landscape painters. He was first trained in painting by Hans Gude and Wilhelm von Gegerfelt. Between 1887-89, he studied in Paris under Léon Bonnat, Alfred Philippe Roll, Henri Gervex and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. Puvis de Chavannes's classical simplicity had the greatest influence on Prince Eugen's work. The Duke devoted himself entirely to landscape painting, becoming one of the era's most prominent landscape painters. ...Eugen never married, in an era when royal princes almost always found princesses to wed. His homosexual orientation was unknown to the general public. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Eugen,_Duke_of_N%C3%A4rke) undefined

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