Wilhelm Marstrand is one of the most renowned artists belonging to the Golden Age of Danish Painting. To his contemporaries and a further few generations, Marstrand ranked among Denmark's greatest painters of all time, to some authorities perhaps as the very greatest. Certainly, he was vastly productive and mastered a remarkable variety of genres - his disinterest for landscape art being a notable exception. More relevant today is the rather striking number of his works which are now familiar signposts of Danish history and culture: scenes from drawing-rooms and streets of Copenhagen during his younger days; the festivity and public life captured in Rome; the many representative portraits of citizens and innovators; even the monumentalihttps://perspective.smk.dk/en/wilhelm-marstrand-cosmopolitan-artist-caught-vortex-images J. T. Sergel, Abildgaard warming his feet by a stove, 1797 (SMK KKSgb8163) ...