A framed painting by Bruno Liljefors entitled "Hooded Crows".

Bruno Andreas Liljefors (1860 to 1939) was a Swedish artist, the most important and probably the most influential wildlife painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Liljefors is held in high esteem by painters of wildlife. The influence of the Impressionists can be seen in his attention to the effects of environment and light. During the last years of the nineteenth century, a brooding element entered his work, perhaps the result of turmoil in his private life, as he left his wife, Anna, and took up with her younger sister, Signe, and was often short of money. This darker quality in his paintings gradually began to attract interest and he had paintings exhibited at the Paris Salon.