Vilhelm Hammershoi
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Double Portrait of the Artist and his Wife
Painting ID:: 83473 new24/Vilhelm Hammershoi-847749.jpg
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Vilhelm Hammershoi
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Danish Painter, 1864-1916, was a painter born in Copenhagen, Denmark known for his poetic, low-key portraits and interiors.The son of a well-to-do merchant, Christian Hammershoi and his wife, Frederikke (nee Rentzmann), Vilhelm studied drawing from the age of eight with Neils Christian Kierkegaard and Holger Gronvold, as well as painting with Vilhelm Kyhn, before embarking on studies with Frederik Vermehren and others at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. From 1883 to 1885, he studied with Peder Severin Kroyer. |
Double Portrait of the Artist and his Wife |
Date 1892(1892)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 37 x 66.7 cm (14.6 x 26.3 in)
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Related Paintings::. | Portrait of Diderot (mk05) | William Shakespeare heroine Imogen in his play Cymbeline | Pallas Athena, Venus and Juno | |
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