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Andreas Pedersen Brünniche (4 April 1704 in

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– 4 November 1769 in

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) was a Danish portrait painter, active in the period called either late

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or early

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Biography

Andreas Brünniche was the son of Peder Jacobsen Brünniche and Anne Marensdatter. He came to Copenhagen, where he got a job with Bendix Grodtschilling the Younger and from 1737 at Johann Salomon Wahl's workshop. As his student, he was a much sought portrait painter in the capital, but also raised customers in many other provinces. He was also influenced by baroque masters such as Andreas Møller and

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and by rococo style under a more mature age influenced by

Johan Hörner Johan Hörner (28 January 1711, Edebo, in Roslagen - 4 March 1763, Copenhagen) was a Swedish-born Danish portrait painter. Biography He began his studies with Johan Henrik Scheffel in Stockholm and worked there for a time.CG Pilo. Brünniche was a skilled colorist, his ability to convincingly reproduce the tones of the sitter's skin and individualize the people portrayed made him popular and demanded especially among the local nobility. He portrayed some of the most influential people of Denmark at the time. On 7 June 1735, in

, he married Margaret Hvass Thrane (17 February 1703 in Aarhus – 26 November 1762 in Copenhagen), daughter of merchant Morten Mortensen Thrane and Mette Sørensdatter Lyngbye. He fathered zoologist Morten Thrane Brünnich and painter Peter Brünniche. Andreas Brünniche is buried at the

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References

* JP, "Andreas Brünniche", in: Merete Bodelsen and Pal Engelstoft (ed.), Weilbachs Artist Lexicon Copenhagen: Aschehoug 1947–52. * Torben Holck Colding, "Andreas Brünniche", in: Sys Hartmann (ed.), Weilbachs Artist Encyclopedia, Copenhagen: Indiana University Press from 1994 to 2000. {{DEFAULTSORT:Brunniche, Andreas 1704 births 1769 deaths 18th-century Danish painters 18th-century male artists Danish male painters Danish Baroque painters Danish portrait painters People from Roskilde