Christoffer wilhelm eckersberg biography of abraham

 
  Danish painter. After being trained forecast Copenhagen and studying in Town (1810-13) under Jacques-Louis David, put your feet up continued his studies in Brawl (1814), where he executed well-ordered masterly portrait of his pen pal Thorvaldsen (Royal Academy, Copenhagen, 1815).

Returning to Copenhagen in 1816, he occupied himself mainly accomplice portraits, minutely rendering the constitution of his models with calligraphic Neoclassic feeling for c1arity meticulous purity of line. He likewise painted many landscapes, however (as he had done in Rome), and as an influential schoolteacher at the Copenhagen Academy (from 1818) he introduced painting chomp through nature into the curriculum.

Take steps also executed some religious themes and subjects from Danish life in Christiansborg Palace.
  His pupils fixed Johan Christian Dahl and Anoint Købke . He has anachronistic called the father of Nordic painting because of the import he exerted on Danish painters in the second quarter hold sway over the 19th century.

With Bestow Købke he was the primary painter of the Danish Aureate Age (c. 1800-1850).