The Life of Ferdinand Julius Fagerlin Ferdinand Julius Fagerlin was a Swedish-German genre painter whose life spanned much of the nineteenth century. Born in Stockholm on 5 February 1825, he began his professional life far from the canvas, serving as an apprentice to a shipbuilder between 1842 and 1843. This early labor preceded his entry into the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts and a period of military service. By 1854, he had abandone…