Jens Peter Møller (4 October 1783

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– 29 September 1854) was a Danish painter.

Early life

Møller was a landscape painter and the son of a potter. He was born in Faaborg and grew up with a relative in Eckernförde in

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. Together with his fellow painter and friend

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (2 January 1783 – 22 July 1853) was a Danish painter. He was born in Blåkrog in the Southern Jutland region of Denmark. He went on to lay the foundation for the period of art known as the Golden Age of Da ...

Møller moved to

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in 1803 to study at the

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. At the Academy he won the silver medal and was the first student of Nicolai Abildgaard and later was taught by Christian August Lorentzen.

Career

Christian VIII of Denmark supported Møller as a patron. At the same time Møller decided to learn how to restore paintings In 1810 he received a travel grant partly by the Prince's support. Møller first traveled to

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and from there to

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. In Paris he studied partly its technical subject and partly made landscape studies of nature by copying examples of works by Claude Lorrain. Here Møller again met Eckersberg and lived with him in 1813 when the latter traveled to

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. As early as 1814 Møller had been appointed curator at the royal collection of paintings and was for some years a drawing teacher for midshipmen. From 1841 he also supervised the paintings on the royal castles. Møller received the medal "Ingenio an arte" in 1842 for a difficult restoration of Queen Caroline Amalie's portrait. From 1834 he was also curator (inspector) of Count Carl Moltke's painting collection. At the Christiansborg Palace Møller painted his four major landscapes from Switzerland and Tyrol. The Royal Painting Collection owns eight of his pictures. Møller was also a conscientious teacher for the younger landscape painters at the Academy and introduced cash prizes in landscape art.

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Danish painters Danish landscape painters 1783 births 1854 deaths People from Faaborg-Midtfyn Municipality {{Denmark-painter-stub