The Corvette Najaden under Sail, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1834)
In the 1830s and 1840s, Eckersberg was fascinated with marine painting. Despite the loss of the fleet in 1807, Denmark remained a seafaring nation. The ships’ aesthetic must have appealed to Eckersberg’s interest in perspective and at the time, he was the leading painter of marine art. In 1833, Eckersberg took a two-week trip with the corvette Najaden. In the following years, he painted the ship at least five times.
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