Related Paintings of unknow artist :. | Portrait of an elegant woman | Portrait of Kajetan Soltyk - bishop of Cracow | Arab or Arabic people and life. Orientalism oil paintings 56 | Musicians and dancers | Portrait of King Michael Korybut Wisniowiecki | Related Artists: OOST, Jacob van, the Elder Flemish Baroque Era Painter, ca.1601-1671 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. Giovanni Giacometti Swiss Painter, 1868-1933,was a Swiss painter. He was the father of the artists Alberto and Diego Giacometti and the architect Bruno Giacometti.