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Birth
1850 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Death
1921 (West Hoboken, New Jersey)
Lived/Active
New York/New Jersey
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ship portrait and other marine painting
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Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Antonio Jacobsen became one of America's best known and most prolific painters of marine subjects. From 1880, he lived in Hoboken, New Jersey, having studied at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen.
He emigrated to New York in 1871 to avoid serving in the Franco-Prussian War and got a job decorating safes. At that time, he began painting portraits of the vessels of the Old Dominion Steamship Line, creating about 6000 ship portraits in the New York Harbor between 1 (showing 500 of 8728 characters). |
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