View of the Cliffs of Møn and a Corvette

Sødring was among the few Danish artists of this period to look to Romantic landscape painting for inspiration, and this painting is radically different from the majority of painti...

Here, Eckersberg has depicted one of the most romantic and picturesque views of the garden at the manor of Liselund. The central motif – the cleft with the small waterfall – is fra...

Eckersberg would have picked this scene while standing near the Cliffs of Møn, looking west out across the island. The painting is based on a drawing made in bright daylight in fro...

When leaving Danish waters on the corvette Galathea in the spring of 1839, Eckersberg saw – on 12 May – their companion, the brig St Jean, being accidentally rammed by a Finnish me...

Eckersberg began work on this painting of a section of a ship’s deck during a fourteen-day voyage in Danish waters on the corvette Najaden in July of 1833. The view is unusually na...

Eckersberg’s interest in sailing ships was not restricted to the design of the finished ships and to their manoeuvres on the water; he was also interested in shipbuilding. In this ...

While crossing the North Sea on the corvette Galathea in May 1839, Eckersberg experienced his first truly ferocious storm at sea. He described the experience in great detail in his...