Oil painting by Danish marine artist Anton Melbye 1851
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74361
Sailing ship off Gibraltar
English: Oil painting by Danish marine artist Anton Melbye 1851
Date 1851
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83477
View of the Adriatic
Date 1864(1864)
Medium Oil
Dimensions 70 x 108 cm (27.6 x 42.5 in)
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87349
View of the Adriatic
1864(1864)
Medium Oil
Dimensions 70 x 108 cm (27.6 x 42.5 in)
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Anton Melbye
(1818-1875) was a Danish painter. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and was a private student of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. He achieved international success as a marine artist, travelling widely especially to Morocco and Turkey.
His paintings are realistic, often enhanced with dramatic light and weather effects as in Eddystone Lighthouse (1846) which earned him the Thorvaldsen Medal. He was also influenced by Camille Corot whom he met in Paris where he lived from 1847 to 1858.
While in Paris he met Napoleon III who ordered a large painting from him.
