Jacob Mathias Calmeyer (30 October 1802 – 3 August 1883) was a Norwegian painter.

Biography

He was born in Fredrikshald in

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, Norway. He was admitted in 1819 as part of the first class of students at the newly established Norwegian Royal Drawing School in Christiania. Among his teachers were Jacob Munch and Johannes Flintoe. Between 1821 and 1826 he was a student at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in

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where he trained under Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. He was admitted to the artist guild in Bergen during 1832. In 1835 he settled in Stockholm, where he remained until at least 1839. In 1859, Calmeyer returned to Norway and settled in Christiania. His students included the painter

Ragnvald Hjerlow Ragnvald Amandus Pedersen Hjerlow (surname also spelled Hjerløw; February 20, 1863 – March 13, 1947) was a Norwegian painter and a teacher at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry. Hjerlow was born in Christiania (now Oslo). ...

(c. 1877). He is represented in the National Gallery, Bergen Art Museum, National Museum and the Royal Library in Stockholm. He is represented in the

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with the paintings ''Svartediket ved Bergen'' and ''Lysakerfossen''.

References

1802 births 1883 deaths People from Halden 19th-century Norwegian painters Norwegian male painters 19th-century Norwegian male artists {{norway-painter-stub