Description
The sitter (1812-1844) was born on the island of Saint Thomas, at that time a colony in the Danish West Indies. He was sent to Copenhagen to study medicine and later set up practice at Satrup in Schleswig, then part of Denmark. For health reasons, he returned with his wife to the Virgin Islands, where they both died in 1844.
Provenance
Family of the sitter, by descent to his great-grandson Nils Ehnbom, Köpingebro, Sweden. London sale, Sotheby's, 26 November 1986 (lot 4, repr.), Portrait of Dr. Johann Henning Kjetil Hjardemaal, £50,600 to Artemis Fine Arts, Ltd., London. Purchased by the CMA through Eugene V. Thaw, New York, in 1987.
Accession Number
1987.51
Medium
oil on fabric
Dimensions
Framed: 45 x 37 x 7.5 cm (17 11/16 x 14 9/16 x 2 15/16 in.); Unframed: 33.5 x 25.6 cm (13 3/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
