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Michael Ancher

57 works

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Interior scene of mourners gathered around a drowned fisherman laid on a table, lit by a window at right.

The drowned fisherman

1896

Full-length portrait of a woman in a black dress and hat by a window, with a light-coloured dog outside.

Portræt af min hustru Portrait of my wife

1884

Painting of a baptism in a church interior, a woman in yellow holding an infant before a priest and family members.

A Baptism

1883

Elderly bearded man with a cane sits beside a sleeping child in a bed, beside a dark iron stove in a plain room.

Blind Kristian minding a child

1885

Woman in white dress and straw hat walks through wheat field carrying yellow flowers, painted under a blue sky.

Anna Ancher returning from the field

1902

Five women in white summer dresses walk along a sunlit beach beside a calm sea, one holding a parasol.

A stroll on the beach

1896

Painting of a whitewashed cottage with red roof, pink climbing roses and a dirt path beside green trees under a summer sky.

The Old Garden House

1914

Oil painting of an elderly woman in bed watched by a young woman in a red shawl reading a book beside a table with flowers.

By a sickbed

1879

Painting of a young blonde woman in a blue dress reading a book while seated in a wooden chair.

A young woman reading

1885

Painting of a young woman with hair in a bun knitting by a window-lit wall, with a red table and yarn beside her.

Skagen girl, Maren Sofie, knitting

1882

Oil study of two seated men in suits, one in cream and one in brown, gesturing in a relaxed pose against a warm wall.

Art critics. Study

1906

Portrait of the painter Eilif Peterssen

1852

Georg Brandes

1915

Portrait of John H. Brøndum

1890

Oil painting of a sunset over a sea with orange clouds and a dark beach curving along the shoreline.

Solnedgang. Skagen

1906

Oil portrait of a young woman with center-parted hair, blue blouse, gold earrings, against an ochre background.

Skagenspige

1887

Painting of a girl in a blue dress and white bonnet bending toward red poppies in a sunlit garden.

Helga mellem valmuerne

1886

Two women in pink and white dresses talk while seated on a red sofa beside a table with a plant.

Samtale i den vestre stue

Painting of a young girl resting in bed with a red blanket, a doll nearby, and a vase of roses on a dresser.

A convalescent

1890

Oil painting of an elderly woman in a headscarf resting in bed beside a mug and lilac flowers.

The Sick Woman

1900

Painting of a red-walled living room with flowering pots on a sunlit window sill and a red sofa in the foreground.

The red living room

1914

Young woman lying in bed reading a book, with red striped blanket, flowers on side table, warm light.

A young woman, Tine Normand, being sick

1883

Painting of an interior with a fireplace, a painter with palette, a reading man in a red cap, and a large eagle above.

Under the sign of the eagle

1907

Oil painting of a vast open landscape under billowing white clouds, with a small figure walking across golden fields.

Autumn landscape, Skagen

1917

Pencil portrait study of an elderly bearded man in a fur hat smoking a pipe, drawn on tan paper.

Portrait study of Niels Gaihede (1816-1890)

1880