(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 :. | Still life floral, all kinds of reality flowers oil painting 18 | Girl With a Hoop, | Peasants at the Table (El Almuerzo) r | Light and colour-the morning after the Deluge-Moses writing the bood of Genesis (mk31) | Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery |
Related Artists:
sir herbert edwin pelham hughes-stanton,r.a.,p.r.w.s.
1870-1937
Pierre Francois Eugene Giraud
painted Gustave Flaubert vers in 1856
Willem Bodeman
painted Italianate landscape in 1847