Esther (sometimes spelled Ester) Ellqvist-Bauer (b. 1880) was a Swedish artist whose life was cut short in 1918, when she, her husband (the artist John Bauer), their young son, and 39 others drowned following a ferry accident on Sweden's Lake Vättern. Esther studied art at the University of Arts, Crafts and Design (Konstfack) and The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Kungliga Akademien för de fria konsterna), both in Stockholm. It was at the Royal Academy that she met John Bauer, whom she married in 1906. Following the marriage and the birth of the couple's son in 1915, Esther's career took a backseat to John's, but there is evidence that she was planning to resume her artistic endeavors in 1918, when the family boarded the ill-fated steam ferry Per Brahe bound for a new life in Stockholm. I wrote recently about the sinking of the Per Brahe in an article for The Local Sweden (subscriber content), which can be found here: https://www.thelocal.se/20190404/the-day-swedens-trolls-and-fairies-wept Image: Self Portrait, Esther Ellqvist, 1910, courtesy Wikimedia Commons. #FemaleFriday #EstherEllqvist #art #WriteAboutWomen #Sweden https://www.instagram.com/victoriamartinezwriter/p/BwKHHEwAb0f/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ssxn99y9524t