Niels Møller Lund

Niels Moeller Lund (1863–1916) was a Danish artist. He grew up in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and studied at the Académie Julian in Paris. He is known for his impressionistic paintings of England, particularly London and the North-East. His most well known painting - The Heart Of The Empire - hangs in the Guildhall Art Gallery. It provided inspiration for Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith's painting of the same name, which also depicted Threadneedle Street.

Works Attack on the Japanese Battery at Shimonoseki, National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth After Rain, Shipley Art Gallery A Winter's Night, Laing Art Gallery Corfe Castle, Dorset, Laing Art Gallery Mid the Wild Music of the Glen, Laing Art Gallery Newcastle upon Tyne from Gateshead, Laing Art Gallery Newcastle upon Tyne from the East, Laing Art Gallery The Heart of the Empire, Guildhall Art Gallery The 'Revenge' leaving Jarrow John Cooke Esq, Derry City Council Joseph Cooke, Derry City Council