Artist
Martinus Rørbye
Kingdom of Denmark, 1803–1848
Martinus Rørbye was a Kingdom of Denmark Realism painter. 17 works are cataloged here, principally at Statens Museum for Kunst, most of them oil paintings. Martinus Rørbye was born in Drammen.
The View from the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis
The Prison of Copenhagen
Men of Skagen on a Summer Evening in Fair Weather
Adolf, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Declines the Offer to Accede to the Danish Throne. Copy after C. W. Eckersberg
View from the Artist's Window
A party of chess players outside a Turkish coffeehouse and barbershop
Martinus Christian Wesseltoft Rørbye (Danish:; 17 May 1803 – 29 August 1848) was a Danish painter, known both for genre works and landscapes. He was a central figure of the Golden Age of Danish painting during the first half of the 19th century. The most traveled of the Danish Golden Age painters, he traveled both north to Norway and Sweden and south to Italy, Greece and Constantinople.
He was also the first Danish painter to take to painting in Skagen at the northern top of Jutland, almost half a century before the thriving community of Skagen Painters formed and came to fame, through Michael Ancher, Anna Ancher and P.S. Krøyer.
Works by Martinus Rørbye
- The View from the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis
- The Prison of Copenhagen
- Men of Skagen on a Summer Evening in Fair Weather
- Adolf, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Declines the Offer to Accede to the Danish Throne. Copy after C. W. Eckersberg
- View from the Artist's Window
- A party of chess players outside a Turkish coffeehouse and barbershop
View of Copenhagen at Sunset
The Crypt in the Monastry of San Benedetto in Subiaco, Italy
Two Shepherd Boys in the Roman Campagna
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