Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg was a Danish painter. He was born in Blåkrog in the Duchy of Schleswig. He went on to lay the foundation for the period of art known as the Golden Age of Danish Painting
Portrait by Christian Albrecht Jensen, 1832
Self portrait at the age of twenty-eight (1811)
View north towards Kronborg Castle, Denmark
Ulysses Fleeing the Cave of Polyphemus, 1812, Princeton University Art Museum, painted while under the tutelage of Jacques-Louis David
Assistens Cemetery in Copenhagen, Denmark, is the burial place of many notable Danes, as well as an important green-space in the Nørrebro district.
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
…in later life and he had to give up painting. He died in Copenhagen of cholera on 22 July 1853 during the great epidemic. He is buried in Copenhagen's Assistens Cemetery. Eckersberg was commissioned to do a number of historical paintings for Christiansborg Palace, as well as altarpieces. His best known works are portraits…
Assistens Kirkegård 1
Danish author Hans Christian Andersen's grave (replaced memorial stone)