Ulrika Pasch was the daughter of the painter Lorens Pasch the Elder and Anna Helena Beckman, the niece of the artist Johan Pasch, and the sister of the future painter Lorens Pasch the Younger.
13 Facts About Ulrika Pasch
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She, unlike her sister Hedvig Lovisa Ulrika Pasch was tutored explicitly because she displayed early talent for the work.
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Ulrika Pasch was therefore, after the death of her mother in 1756, employed as a housekeeper in the house of her maternal aunt's widower, the goldsmith Gustaf Stafhell the Elder.
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Ulrika Pasch's uncle allowed her to paint in her free time and develop her artistic talent, and she started to paint and draw for money.
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Ulrika Pasch was able to move into her own apartments and establish her own studio.
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Ulrika Pasch is known to have painted details in her brother's painting which he himself found tiring, especially details in textiles and clothing.
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Ulrika Pasch had an active and successful career until her death, and was frequently hired by members of the royal court and aristocracy.
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Ulrika Pasch is described as an easygoing and humorous person, who was easy to be around and could adapt to every situation.
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Ulrika Pasch was the only female who was made a member that year a recognition which seem to have been considered to be well deserved within the academy.
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Ulrika Pasch was made a member at the same occasion as her brother.
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Ulrika Pasch participated in the exhibitions of the academy, most notably in 1794.
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Ulrika Pasch is the most famous and successful female artist in Sweden and perhaps the rest of Scandinavia before the 19th century.
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Ulrika Pasch is portrayed in the novel Pottungen by Anna Laestadius Larsson from 2014, where she, alongside Anna Maria Lenngren, Ulrika Widstrom, Jeanna von Lantingshausen, Marianne Ehrenstrom and Sophie von Fersen, becomes a member in a Blue Stockings Society organized by Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, and the fictitious Rower woman Johanna is hired as a nude model by her.