About Ludvig August Smith
Lived 1820 – 1906 (aged 85). Ludvig August Smith was a Danish painter and lithographer.
Ludvig August Smith (22 November 182012 November 1906) was a Danish painter, specialising in genre painting but also producing portraits and history paintings.
Born in Copenhagen, he was the son of Morten Peter Smith (1776-1835) and Lene Dorothea (nee Scheel; 1780-1853). He studied at the Kunstakademiet from 1831 until 1841 and for a time painted there under C.W. Eckersberg. His first exhibition of a work, A Family Scene, came in 1839. His genre works included Supplicants (1853), bought by the Kunstforeningen. Particularly popular was his A Copenhagen Family (1861), popularised via a lithograph copy.
In 1864 he married Margrethe Petersen (1843-1877). He last exhibited in 1894 and died in Copenhagen.
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Danish painter (1820-1906)
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Ludvig August Smith was born on 22 November 1820 in Copenhagen.
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Ludvig August Smith died on 12 November 1906 in Copenhagen.
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Ludvig August Smith was a painter and lithographer.
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Ludvig August Smith was Danish.
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