ANTON MELBYE (1818-1875). sailing ships.

Anton Melbye (1818-1875), sailing ships, drawing with pencil and black chalk, white, 1849, signed and dated at the lower left, ca. 7.5 x 14 cm, framed behind passe-partout and glass, with frame ca. 25 x 28 cm

Like his brothers, the Danish artist Anton Melbye studied at the Academy in Copenhagen and was a private student of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. In Hamburg and the then Danish town of Altona, Melbye found collectors and patrons from the 1840s and regularly took part in local exhibitions. He is one of Hamburg's most popular marine painters of the 19th century.