Magnificent Bunch of Flowers in a Greek Vase
Johan Laurents Jensen (Gentofte 1800 - Kopenhagen 1856), attr.
Lot-No. 137
Proceeds : 8.200 €
Oil/canvas, 93 x 73,5 cm, lo. ri. rest. sign. I. L. Iensen 1838, some rest., relined. - World famous Danish flower painter. J. studied in Kopenhagen under Eckersberg and Fritzsch. With a sholarship of the Danish crown prince Frederick he learned porcellain painting in Sèvres for some months. As early as 1825 he became professor at the Copenhagen Academy. He was a popular teacher with an immense number of pupils and assistants. Mus.: Copenhagen (Thorvaldsen Mus.), Oldenburg, Hamburg (Altonaer Mus.), Frederiksborg, Montpellier a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Weilbach a. others.
Johan Laurents Jensen: Magnificent Bunch of Flowers in a Greek Vase
Johan Laurents Jensen (Gentofte 1800 - Kopenhagen 1856), attr.
Magnificent Bunch of Flowers in a Greek Vase
Lot-No. 137
Proceeds : 8.200 €
Oil/canvas, 93 x 73,5 cm, lo. ri. rest. sign. I. L. Iensen 1838, some rest., relined. - World famous Danish flower painter. J. studied in Kopenhagen under Eckersberg and Fritzsch. With a sholarship of the Danish crown prince Frederick he learned porcellain painting in Sèvres for some months. As early as 1825 he became professor at the Copenhagen Academy. He was a popular teacher with an immense number of pupils and assistants. Mus.: Copenhagen (Thorvaldsen Mus.), Oldenburg, Hamburg (Altonaer Mus.), Frederiksborg, Montpellier a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Weilbach a. others.
