Flemish painter (bc1568, Bruxelles, d. 1625, Antwerpen). Related Paintings of BRUEGHEL, Jan the Elder :. | Bouquet of Flowers gh | Still-Life with Garland of Flowers and Golden Tazza fdg | Magpie on the Gallow fd | Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (mk25) | Travellers on the Way (detail) fd | Related Artists: Giovanni Battista Ortolano Ferrara ca 1487-after 1524 Anton Melbye (1818-1875) was a Danish painter. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and was a private student of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. He achieved international success as a marine artist, travelling widely especially to Morocco and Turkey.
His paintings are realistic, often enhanced with dramatic light and weather effects as in Eddystone Lighthouse (1846) which earned him the Thorvaldsen Medal. He was also influenced by Camille Corot whom he met in Paris where he lived from 1847 to 1858.
While in Paris he met Napoleon III who ordered a large painting from him. Joao Batista da Costa painted Landscape in 1920