Jacob Fosie (1679 – 1 December 1763) was a Danish artist, watercolor painter, etcher, engraver, organist and author.

Early life

Fosie was born in

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, of English descent. He was a student of

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. He painted landscapes in watercolor, mostly in the style of

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. Fosie held a

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for artists in his home. Among the frequent guests were the artists

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, Gustav de Lode and Michael Keyl, the painters

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, the sculptor Simon Carl Stanley, the poet Christian Frederik Wadskiær and several other writers.

Family

He married Anna Dorothea Ilsøe and they had three children. Daughter Johanna Marie Fosie whom he taught together with her siblings Michael Fosie and Elisabeth Fosie was the most talented of the siblings, and she signed and published illustrations in her father's drawing book in 1741. Anfallet mot Marstrand

Artistic interests

Fosie was a wealthy man; he busied himself with mechanics and linguistics, and was for several years organist at the

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and as such undoubtedly an accomplished musician, although he once admitted that he was not practicing music outside of Sundays. Fosie was a member of the oldest Danish academy (1701) and the

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, but had also hardly ever been outside Denmark. Nevertheless, he was at home in all the major languages and culture in Latin, possessed a large and good library, and was highly regarded for his multifaceted skills and knowledge. He also published a number of drawing books including ''Drawing ABCs'', ''Learning Cloths'' (1741–43), a collection of his students' works (1747) and a collection of landscapes (1746).

References

Johanna Marie Fosie Bio (''Danish'')
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