Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg Danish Neoclassical Painter, 1783-1853
Danish painter and teacher. He has been called 'the father of Danish painting' because of the influence he exerted on Danish painters in the second quarter of the 19th century. With Christen K?bke he was the leading painter of the Danish 'Golden Age' (c. 1800-1850). Portrait of Marie Sophie of Hesse-Kassel Queen consort of Denmark early 1800s
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