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Anton Melbye
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Anton Melbye Sailing ship off Gibraltar
Painting ID:: 72604
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Anton Melbye
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(1818-1875) was a Danish painter. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and was a private student of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. He achieved international success as a marine artist, travelling widely especially to Morocco and Turkey.
His paintings are realistic, often enhanced with dramatic light and weather effects as in Eddystone Lighthouse (1846) which earned him the Thorvaldsen Medal. He was also influenced by Camille Corot whom he met in Paris where he lived from 1847 to 1858.
While in Paris he met Napoleon III who ordered a large painting from him. |
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Anton Melbye Sailing ship off Gibraltar |
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Oil painting by Danish marine artist Anton Melbye 1851
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Related Paintings::.
| Portrait of an unknown woman | the destruction of the children of niobe | Portrait of Antoinette-Elisabeth-Marie d'Aguesseau, comtesse de Segur | |
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