Carl Frederik Sørensen was a Danish

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 artist who specialized in marine painting. His paintings not only attracted customers in Denmark but also in the courts of St Petersburg

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, London

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 and Athens

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.

Biography

Sørensen attended the Danish Academy from 1843 to 1846. He took part in the decoration of the Thorvaldsen Museum in 1844. He studied perspective under Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg was a Danish painter. He was born in Blåkrog in the Duchy of Schleswig , to Henrik Vilhelm Eckersberg, painter and carpenter, and Ingeborg Nielsdatter...

 at the end of 1845. In 1846, he travelled to the Mediterranean

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, in 1853–54 he visited Germany

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, Holland, Belgium

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, France

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 and England

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. Almost every year he went on sea voyages. While he was influenced above all by Anton Melbye

Anton Melbye

Daniel Hermann Anton Melbye was a Danish painter. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and was a private student of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg...

's dramatic maritime scenes, he took a special interest in the weather and its effects on the sea, developing his own recognizable style. He also painted more idyllic scenes, full of charm and atmosphere. His seascapes won him widespread popularity, especially those he painted under the First Schleswig War when he sailed with the Navy around Helgoland (1849) and in the Baltic

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(1850) where he depicted the Danish fleet in combat.

Selected works

• Brand på Christianshavn, nat (1840s)
• Frederik Wilhelm IV af Preussen aflægger juni 1845 besøg i København (1846)
• Marine med damp- og sejlskib (1846)
• Dønning efter en storm under Kullen (Neuhausen's Prize, 1847)
• Sørensen Et vrag på Jyllands vestkyst ved solnedgang (1847)
• Skibbrud efter en storm ved Jyllands vestkyst ud for Ferring Kirke (c. 1848)
• Linieskib for anker, diset septembermorgen (1848)
• Den danske blokeringsflåde ud for Elben (1849)
• Fiskerbåde under kysten, Scheveningen (1853)
• Parti fra øen Guernsey, bugten ved byen St. Petersport (1854)
• Udsigt fra Nordsjælland over Kattegat med forskellige skibe (1856)
• Ved Helsingør havn (1857)
• Tidlig sommermorgen på Helsingørs Rhed (1860)
• Kystparti ved Kullen fyr (1861
• Skærgården nord for byen Marstrands fæstning i Bohuslen (1861-62)
• Marinestykke (1862)
• Frederik VIIs ligfærd over Knippelsbro 1863 (1863)
• Affæren ud for Swinemünde (1864)
• Ved Napolis golf (1864)
• Slaget ved Lissa (1866)
• Sejlere i høj sø (1867)
• Svenske orlogsskibe ud for lvsborg (1867)
• Søstykke (1869)
• Storm på Doggerbanken (1869)
• Sundet ved Helsingør, i baggrunden Kronborg (1873)
• Christian IX besøger Island (1874)
• Landskab (1877)
• Kleven ved Mandal, solnedgang (1877)
• Storm ud for den norske kyst (1877)
• Under Island (1878)