American, 1860-1935 Related Paintings of Stacy Tolman :. | Detail of Birth of St John the Baptist | Emperor Frederick III | L'ORIGINE DE LA SCULPTURE, OU PYGMALION PRIANT VENUS D'ANIMER SA STATUE | Walking Returns | Portrait | Related Artists: Georg Caspar Prenner painted The children of Count Vorontsov in 1755 George H Story 1835-1923 Thomas Fearnley Norwegian Painter, 1802-1842
Norwegian painter. He was descended from a Yorkshire merchant who had settled in Norway in 1753. In 1819 he went into business but at the same time entered the Kongelige Tegneskole in Christiania (now Oslo) and received further training at the art colleges in Copenhagen (1821-3) and Stockholm (1823-7), where Karl XIV commissioned work from him. Fearnley spent much of his life travelling. In Norway in the summer of 1826 he met J. C. Dahl, with whom he later studied in Dresden (1829-30), learning especially to observe nature. After two years in Munich (1830-32),