Henrik Gabriel Porthan (1857)

Henrik Gabriel Porthan (1739–1804) was a librarian and professor of eloquence and poetry at the Royal Academy of Turku. He is regarded as the father of historiography in Finland.

The Swedish-born artist Carl Eneas Sjöstrand (1808-1906) studied in Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Germany before making his debut in 1857. His well-known works include the monument to Henrik Gabriel Porthan in Turku (1864), the frieze depicting Väinämöinen’s song in the Great Hall of the University of Helsinki (1865), and countless portrait busts.