Christen Dalsgaard | Genre painter

Christen Dalsgaard (1824-1907) was a Danish painter, a late student of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg.

Early life and education

Christen Dalsgaard was born on 30 October 1824. He was the son of the owner of the estate, Krabbesholm Manor, located near Skive in Jutland.

He showed early signs of artistic talent, and received training as a craft painter. In the spring of 1841 Niels Rademacher, a visiting landscape painter, encouraged the young artist and convinced his parents of their son's talent.

Frederik Vermehren | Genre painter

Johan Frederik (Frits) Nikolai Vermehren, also known as Frederik Vermehren (1823-1910), a genre and portrait painter in the realist style.

His artistic career took place during the period of Danish art known as the Golden Age of Danish Painting.

Vermehren, along with his fellow artists Christen Dalsgaard (1824-1907) and Julius Exner (1825-1910), were prominent in the Danish genre of painting; they depicted ordinary people of the country, especially farmers and other country folk.

His idealised depictions helped define and encourage Denmark's period of national romanticism.

Jacob Vrel | Dutch Golden Age painter

Jacob Vrel (1630–1680) was a Dutch, Flemish, or Westphalian painter of interiors and urban street scenes during the Dutch Golden Age (1588-1672). He was active from 1654-1662.

Jacob Vrel is also referred to as Jan instead of Jacob(us); alternative spellings of his surname are Frel, Frelle, Vreele, Vrelle and Vriel.

Though Vrel's birthplace is unknown, scholars consider him a Dutch artist.

He is considered to have worked in Delft and Haarlem.

Fanny Brate | Genre painter

Fanny Ingeborg Matilda Brate was a genre painter who depicted Swedish nature, folklore and home interiors. She also painted portraits.

Fanny Brate was born in Stockholm in 1861. Her father was Johan Frans Gustaf Oscar Ekbom, who served as a royal factor for King Oscar II.

Her mother was Henriette Alexandrine Dahlgren. Fanny Brate trained as an artist.

Like many of her contemporaries she studied at the Kungliga Akademi (Royal Academy) in Stockholm, where she enrolled in 1879.

Torajirō Kojima | Impressionist painter

Torajirō Kojima / 児島虎次郎 (1881-1929), born in Shimohara Village, Kawakami-gun, Okayama Prefecture (now Naruha-cho, Takahashi City) in 1881, was a leading Impressionist painter in Japan.

Torajiro Kojima was first a disciple of Takeji Fujishima and then attended the University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo, and in 1908 went to Paris to continue his studies.

In 1909 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium, where he trained in Luminism.

André Brouillet | Academic / Genre painter

Pierre Aristide André Brouillet (1857-1914) was a French academic painter specialising in genre painting, portraits and landscapes.

Born in Charroux, the son of sculptor Pierre-Amédée Brouillet and Élisabeth Leriget, Brouillet began engineering studies at the École centrale Paris in 1876 before entering the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts three years later, where he was a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme.

In the year of his reception at the Salon de peinture et de sculpture in 1879, he attended Jean-Paul Laurens' lessons.

Julius Exner | Genre painter

Johan Julius Exner, (30 November 1825 - 15 November 1910), Danish genre painter, was born in Copenhagen to Johann Gottlieb Exner, a Czech musician from Bohemia, who came to Denmark during the Napoleonic period, and his wife Karen Jørgensdatter.

Exner originally intended on becoming a history painter, but quickly found his niche, however, in genre painting, the most popular and lucrative painting style of his era.

Gustav Vermehren | Genre painter

Gustav Vermehren (1863–1931) was a Danish painter who was born in Copenhagen into a creative family and destined to become an artist.

He initially took drawing lessons from his father (the painter Frederik Vermehren).

He studied at the technical school and was finally admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in Sep. 1881 and ended his studies there in May 1891.