illegitimate daughter of nobleman; orphaned at age 3
with Sophie Adlersparre (1842-47); Swedish (Royal) Academy (1847-50, Stockholm); with Léon Cogniet (1850-51, Paris)
1843 - exhibits at Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Stockholm)
1850 - wins scholarship to study in Paris
1853 - exhibits An Old Man and Two Orphans at the Paris Salon. A lithography of it was made the same year, and the painting was purchased in 1854 by the Norwegian National Gallery in Oslo.
1856 - returns to Stockholm; elected member of Swedish Art Academy first visit to Dalarna
1862 - exhibits at International Exhibition in London
1865 - exhibits at International Exhibition in Dublin
1867 - exhibits Little One's Last Bed at Exposition universelle (Paris); also at Philadelphia World's Fair (1876) and the World Columbian Exposition (1893, Chicago)
Paris (1850-56); Düssldorf and Munich (1855-56)
Breakfast, 1866 (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm)
In 1853, one of Sweden’s leading newspapers, Post- och Inrikes Tidningar, complimented Lindegren:
“She paints just like a man.”
Cited by Eva-Lena Bengtsson, ”Amalia Lindegren och verklighetens poesi,” Från Amalia Lindegren till Julia Beck: kvinnliga konstnärer paa Konstakademien 1847-1872 (Stockholm: Akademi för de fria konsterna, 1997), 41.