Lars Gustaf Sellstedt (1819-1911)

Swedish-born Lars Gustaf Sellstedt (1819-1911), who settled permanently in Buffalo in 1842, was one of the founders of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy in 1862, which became the governing body of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, established in 1905 as the Albright Art Gallery. A portrait, genre, and landscape painter, Sellstedt also was active in teaching and promoting the arts and wrote a comprehensive history, Art in Buffalo, in 1910.