Martinus Rørbye

(1803–1848) dansk målare

Martinus Rørbye (1803–1848) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a printmaker. By year of birth, Martinus Rørbye belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.

Martinus Rørbye was born in Drammen and died in Copenhagen. Martinus Rørbye trained at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. The teachers included Christian August Lorentzen and Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. Wikidata associates Martinus Rørbye with Danish Golden Age. Martinus Rørbye was awarded Thorvaldsen Medal. The students included Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Christen Dalsgaard, and Jacob Kornerup.

The best-known works include ‘View from the Artist's Window’, ‘The Prison of Copenhagen’, ‘Young Clergyman Reading’, and ‘A ship on the beach of Skagen’. The works belong mainly to the genres genre painting, landscape painting, and portrait painting. The catalogue has 52 works by Martinus Rørbye with free images. The dated works span the years 1825–1848. Works by Martinus Rørbye are held by several collections, among them Statens Museum for Kunst, Nationalmuseum, Nivaagaard, and Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Camille Roqueplan, Hermann Stilke, Jacob Abels, Petr Efimovich Zabolotsky, and Robert Scott Lauder.

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