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17th February 2025

The Post is in Stockholm this week and looking at Carl Larsson's connections to the city. Together with his wife, Karin, he is of course associated primarily with Lilla Hyltnäs his family house in Sundborn, almost three hours north west of Stockholm. But he was born in 1853 into difficult and impoverished family circumstances in Gamla Stan, Stockholm's old town. This is his birthplace, Prästgatan 78, photographed in the 1920s, with a plaque to the left of the door.

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