(b Copenhagen, 2 Sept 1722; d Copenhagen, 23 or 24 May 1783). Danish painter, active also in Russia. He was apprenticed to the portrait painter Johann Salomon Wahl in Copenhagen. In 1755 he competed unsuccessfully for the gold medal at the Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen with a historical painting, Lot and his Wife (untraced). In a letter he complained that the rules did not allow him to enter a portrait, a genre more suited to his talents. Presumably in 1756 he completed the portraits of the registrar of the royal art collections, Lorenz Spengler and his Wife (Copenhagen, Stat. Mus. Kst).   Related Paintings of Vigilius Eriksen :. | Portrait | The Little Fur | Fard over a isklyfta pa Gronland | Details of Gastmahl des Herodes | Pieta |
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WEENIX, Jan
Dutch painter (b. 1642, Amsterdam, d. 1719, Amsterdam).
Pierre Gautherot
painted Napoleon Ier, blesse au pied devant Ratisbonne, est soigne par le chirurgien Yvan, 23 avril 1809
VERMEER VAN DELFT, Jan
Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1632-1675