Swedish, 1844-1935 Related Paintings of Per Ekstrom :. | Portrait of Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim | Autumn | Paradiesische Landschaft und Erbsunde | An old man sitting by the fire,pouring with into a roemer | Thomas Middleton of Crowfield and His Daughter Mary | Related Artists: Charles Gifford Dyer 1851-1912 Dirck de Quade van Ravesteyn Flemish painter 1565-1620 Frits Thaulow Norwegian Impressionist Painter, 1847-1906
.Norwegian painter and engraver. Originally wanting to become a marine painter he studied at the art academy in Copenhagen (1870-73) as well as with the Danish marine specialist C. F. S?rensen (1818-79). He spent two winters at Karlsruhe (1873-4, 1874-5) as the pupil of Hans Gude and then went to Paris, where he spent much of the period 1875-9. His marines and coastal pictures, some of which were accepted at the Paris Salon, were only moderately successful, but he acquired a fair knowledge of contemporary French Realist art and felt that Norwegian artists should learn from it.