Name William Marstrand Role Artist | Period Romanticism | |
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Died March 25, 1873, Copenhagen, Denmark Education Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts | ||
William Nicholas Marstrand (1810 – after 1866) was a Danish painter.
He was born at Copenhagen in 1810, and studied in the academy of that town, and afterwards at Munich and Rome. On his return to his native city he was appointed professor, and afterwards director of the academy of fine arts. He painted the principal scenes of the comedies of Holberg, popular festivals, &c. At the Paris Universal Exhibition, 1855, were two pictures by his hand; 'Inhabitants of Dalecarlia crossing the Sylvan on their way to Church,' and ' Young Romano in deserting Home.' He was a knight of the order of the Danebrog.
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