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About Antonio Jacobsen

Danish · 1850–1921 · marine art

Danish[1]-American marine painter who produced six thousand ship portraits in New York, creating an unmatched visual archive of American maritime history.

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Antonio Jacobsen's works are held in 4 museums worldwide, including New York Historical, Merseyside Maritime Museum, and New Britain Museum of American Art.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom

1 museum

🇺🇸 United States

3 museums

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Who was Antonio Jacobsen?
    Antonio Jacobsen was a painter of ships. Over five decades in New York, he produced an estimated six thousand portraits of individual vessels, each identified by name and rendered with the accuracy of a marine architect.
  • What is Antonio Jacobsen known for?
    Antonio Jacobsen is known for his ship portraits. He painted virtually every major vessel entering New York harbour between the 1870s and his death, making his body of work an unmatched visual archive of American maritime history.
  • What was Antonio Jacobsen's art style?
    His method was systematic; ship owners commissioned portraits of their vessels, providing rigging plans and specifications. Jacobsen painted each ship against a standard grey-green sea, the hull proportions exact, the pennants and flags correct.

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Where to See guide aggregates verified holdings of Antonio Jacobsen's works across the following collections.

  1. [1] wikipedia Wikipedia: Antonio Jacobsen Used for: biography.
  2. [2] book Masterpieces of western art : a history of art in 900 individual studies from the Gothic to the present day Used for: biography.
  3. [3] book Beckett, Wendy, Sister Wendy's odyssey : a journey of artistic discovery Used for: biography.
  4. [4] book Landauer, Susan, The not-so-still life : a century of California painting and sculpture Used for: biography.

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