Allan Österlind (1855-1938), painter, draughtsman, graphic artist and sculptor. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1874-76, Osterlind went to Paris in 1877 where he became a student of the sculptor P. J. Cavelier at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He then worked in France until his death, with the exception of study trips to Italy and Spain and occasional visits to his home country.

Österlind was initially most active as a sculptor, but in France he soon switched to painting and became above all a skilled watercolorist. He can best be characterized as a good representative of the French naturalistic plein air painting as represented at that time by Bastien-Lepage and others. He painted figures and portraits as well as landscapes.

August Strindberg was one person who really appreciated Osterlind's painting and he expressed his enthusiasm for Österlind, who he considered to be perhaps Sweden's greatest painter, 'peut-être le premier peintre de Sude'.

On January 15, 1895, it was announced that Allan Osterlind had been awarded the Legion of Honor - France's highest order, established in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte.