Tag: Denmark
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01 Photograph – Marine Art, Michael Ancher’s Three fishermen from Skagen hauling in their net, With Footnotes, #322
Estimated for kr300,000 DKK – kr500,000 DKK in Jun 2012 Michael Peter Ancher (9 June 1849 – 19 September 1927) was a Danish realist artist. He is remembered above all for his paintings of fishermen and other scenes from the Danish fishing community in Skagen. Ancher was born on the island of Bornholm. He attended school…
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01 Painting – Marine Art, C. F. Sørensen’s Navy with a convoy of Danish warships, With Footnotes, #320
Danish warships may have been part of convoys during wartime or in other conflicts. Convoys are groups of ships that travel together, often protected by larger or more heavily armed ships…Carl Frederik Sørensen (8 February 1818, Besser, Samsø – 24 January 1879, Copenhagen) was a Danish artist who specialized in marine painting. His paintings not only attracted…
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07 Works, Today, January 19th, is Saint Canute’s Day, With Footnotes – 19
Canute IV, byname Canute the Holy, or Saint Canute, (born c. 1043—died July 10, 1086, Odense, Den.; canonized 1101; feast days January 19, July 10), martyr, patron saint, and king of Denmark from 1080 to 1086. Canute succeeded his brother Harold Hen as king of Denmark. He opposed the aristocracy and kept a close association…
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Per Anders, Baywatch 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #231
This painting shows more or less my surroundings where I live at the southern edge of Denmark. The Baltic Ocean (or more correctly the fjord called Flensburg Fjord where Denmark is situated on the north side and Germany is situated on the other side, about 2 miles away) is right outside my windows and sailing…
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07 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, January 19th, Saint Canute’s Day, With Footnotes – 19
Holy Knud on the medieval wall painting in the Wigsteads Church Canute IV, byname Canute the Holy, or Saint Canute, (born c. 1043—died July 10, 1086, Odense, Den.; canonized 1101; feast days January 19, July 10), martyr, patron saint, and king of Denmark from 1080 to 1086. Canute succeeded his brother Harold Hen as king…
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01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, from the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #3 B
Charles Sprague Pearce, 1851 – 1914 BEATRIX Oil on canvas 21 7/8 by 18 inches, (55.6 by 45.7 cm) Private Collection Charles Sprague Pearce (October 13, 1851 – May 18, 1914) was an American artist. Pearce was born at Boston, Massachusetts. In 1873 he became a pupil of Léon Bonnat in Paris, and after 1885 he lived…
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