Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg was a Danish painter. He was born in Blåkrog in the Duchy of Schleswig. He went on to lay the foundation for the period of art known as the Golden Age of Danish Painting, and is referred to as the "Father of Danish painting".
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Photos 11
Self portrait at the age of twenty-eight (1811)
View north towards Kronborg Castle, Denmark![Ulysses Fleeing the Cave of Polyphemus, 1812, Princeton University Art Museum, painted while under the tutelage of Jacques-Louis David[1]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Eckersberg%2C_Christoffer_Wilhelm%2C_Ulysses_Fleeing_the_Cave_of_Polyphemus%2C_1812.jpg/1280px-Eckersberg%2C_Christoffer_Wilhelm%2C_Ulysses_Fleeing_the_Cave_of_Polyphemus%2C_1812.jpg)
Ulysses Fleeing the Cave of Polyphemus, 1812, Princeton University Art Museum, painted while under the tutelage of Jacques-Louis David[1]
View of the interior of the Colosseum in Rome
Portrait of Thorvaldsen's Italian mistress, Anna Maria Magnani
Bella and Hanna. The Eldest Daughters of M. L. Nathanson (1820)
Awards 2
Artists born in the 1780s 6
About this person
Category
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1783 to 1853 · aged 70
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