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| Agony in the Garden I |
He was commissioned to produce twenty-three paintings for the King's Chapel at Frederiksborg Castle which he painted between 1865 and 1879.
His wife died in 1886 leaving him with eight children to care for. He died four years later of cancer at the age of 55.
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| Suffer the Children come Unto Me |
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| Agony in the Garden II |
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| The Transfiguration |
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| Peter's denials |
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| The Crucifiction |
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| The Burial of Jesus |
Ya know you hit on a question I've had for some time - cancer back in the day. How did they know? Like, was he covered with tumors, or they did an autopsy and... Oh, there's the tumors.
ReplyDeleteOr, as I suspect, is someone fell ill for no other obvious reasons (could have been a virus, we didn't know they existed then)... so they said he died of 'cancer'?
I had never heard of this artist. His life appears to have been one of lots of joy and heartbreak at the end. I can't imagine having eight children to raise by myself ... shenanigans ! I'm guessing a few of the older children pitched in to help.
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