Artist
Nicolai Abildgaard
Kingdom of Denmark, 1743–1809
Nicolai Abildgaard was a Kingdom of Denmark Neoclassicism painter. 72 works are cataloged here, principally at Statens Museum for Kunst, most of them oil paintings. Nicolai Abildgaard was born in Copenhagen.
Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard (11 September 1743 – 4 June 1809) was a Danish neoclassical and royal history painter, sculptor, architect, and professor of painting, mythology, and anatomy at the New Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen, Denmark. Many of his works were in the royal Christiansborg Palace (some destroyed by fire 1794), Fredensborg Palace, and Levetzau Palace at Amalienborg.
Works by Nicolai Abildgaard
The Wounded Philoctetes
Frederik II Builds Kronborg Castle at Elsinore
Frederik II Builds Kronborg Castle at Elsinore
Magnus Stenbock Surrenders the Fortress of Tønningen to Frederik IV in 1714
Christian V Presents Danish Law 1683
Christian VII Uniting the Ducal with the Royal Part of Holstein in 1767
Thetis Immersing her Infant Son Achilles in the River Styx to Make him Invulnerable
Christian IV Aboard his Flagship "The Trinity"
Odysseus Takes Counsel with Teiresias. From Homer´s Odyssey
Ymir Suckling the Cow Audhumla
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