Three Spartan Boys Practicing Archery

This is a reproduction of “Three Spartan Boys Practicing Archery” by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg of 1812. The painting is a fine example of... more

by Chrisoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

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Price

$1,400

Dimensions

16.000 x 20.000 x 0.500 inches

Title

Three Spartan Boys Practicing Archery

Artist

Chrisoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

Description

This is a reproduction of “Three Spartan Boys Practicing Archery” by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg of 1812. The painting is a fine example of Neoclassical paintings of male nudes. The Dutch artist was twenty-nine y years old when he completed this masterpiece having been born in Blakrog in Holstein. He had started training as an artist from an early age and became an apprentice at age seventeen. He moved to Copenhagen three years later and was accepted into the Royal Danish Academy of Art. He married seven years later and immediately began his studies abroad first to Germany and then Paris where he studied under Jacques Louis David. He went on the Rome from 1813 to 1816 where he became friends with Bertel Thorvaldsen. He returned to Copenhagen in 1816 and divorced his wife. He became a professor at the Academy two years later and was director from 1827 to 1829. He died in 1853 acclaimed “the Father of Danish Painting”. This masterpiece is an oil on canvas and measures 81 by 63.8 centimeters. It is in the Hirschsprung Collection in Copenhagen.

If you are interested in commissioning an oil painting on canvas of this art print, please send me an email at troy@trycap.com.

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October 29th, 2019