Urban Larsson, born in 1966 in Stockholm, has lived and worked in Amsterdam for the last 15 years.  
The artist studied History of Art at the University of Stockholm and one year of Architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Larsson then moved to Florence, Italy, to study at Studio Cecil & Graves the only atelier then in Europe where traditional realism was taught.  He spent nearly three years there, learning drawing and painting and being introduced to the visual language and techniques of painters from earlier centuries.  After his studies in Florence, he moved to Amsterdam to settle as a painter.

Besides his numerous and prestigious portrait commissions, both in The Netherlands and abroad, Urban has exhibited extensively throughout Europe and in the United States. Since April 2007, he is painting in the former studio of G. H. Breitner (1857-1923) on Prinseneiland, Amsterdam. He is married to Lara who is Dutch, and they have three children.