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Fritz Melbye

1826–1869 · Venezuela · Romanticism

Fritz Sigfred Georg Melbye (24 August 1826 – 14 December 1869) was a Danish marine painter, the brother of Anton Melbye and Vilhelm Melbye who were also marine painters. He traveled widely, painting seascapes, coastal and harbour scenes as well as some landscapes in Europe, the Caribbean, Venezuela, North America and Asia. Wikipedia

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Works

• “Off Caracas, Venezuela”, 1853 — Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
• “Palm Trees and Grasses” — Olana State Historic Site
• “Lithograph print of the Cruz Bay Battery on St. John from a sketch by Fritz Melbye”, 1850
• “Pastoral scene from the Danish West Indies”, 1850
• “Vista de Caracas”, 1854
• “Coastal scene with fishing boats and view of Mount Fuji”, 1869
• “Camino nuevo de Maiquetía”, 1854
• “Venezuelan Coastal Landscape”, 1857
• “A French Bark Entering the Harbour of Havana, the Morro Castle to the Left”, 1861

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