Godenhjelm was the drawing school's only teacher until 1863, when the school began to receive state subsidy. This way the school's continuity was secured, while a second teacher, the sculptor Carl Eneas Sjöstrand, was employed to teach 'drawing plaster casts by lamplight'.
The Stockholm-born sculptor Carl Eneas Sjöstrand (1828-1906) came to Finland at Fredrik Cygnaeus's invitation to design the country's first public monument, a statue of Henrik Gabriel Porthan, the 'father of Finnish history writing', that was to be placed in Turku. The great significance that the occasion was seen at the time to bear on Finland is reflected in the statue's unveiling ceremonies: the day was declared a national holiday, schoolchildren had a day off, shops were closed, the town was decorated with six hundred lanterns and fluttering pennants.
Sjöstrand's arrival in Finland meant that sculpture now became an established part of Finnish culture and that it was now for the first time taught on a regular basis.
Carl Eneas Sjöstrand was a very cautious artist who equally
favoured classicism and Romanticism, the two main sculptural styles
of the age, both in a very conventional spirit. His image as artist
was augmented by his use of Kalevala imagery. And it was his
enthusiasm for the Kalevala, his fascination with Finnish mythology
that had made it so easy to lure him to Finland in the first place.
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The Biedermeier Era B.A. Godenhjelm and C.E. Sjöstrand, the First Teachers at the Helsinki Drawing School 
Berndt Abraham Godenhjelm : Omakuva pietarilaisessa työhuoneessa Carl Eneas Sjöstrand : Kullervon surma Kullervo katkoo kapalonsa Robert Wilhelm Ekman : Ilmatar Kreeta Haapasalo soittaa kannelta talonpoikaistuvassa The Collection of the Finnish Art Society and the Idea of a Museum Magnus von Wright : Pulska-alli Sorsia Wilhelm von Wright : Riippuvia sorsia Magnus von Wright : Liljenstrandein talo talvella Annankatu kylmänä talviaamuna Ferdinand von Wright : Huuhkaja iskee jänikseen Ensi yllätys Haminanlahden puutarhassa Taistelevat metsot