Jens Peter Møller (4 October 1783
Faaborg – 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
Schleswig. Together with his fellow painter and friend
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg Møller moved to
Copenhagen
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in 1803 to study at the
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. 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
Brussels
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and from there to
Paris
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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
Rome
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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
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