A Gordon Setter and a Pug by Otto Bache was created in 1885. The painting is in private collection. The size of the work is 66,7 x 95,3 cm and is made as an oil on canvas.
About the Artist: Danish Realist painter Otto Bache was born in Roskilde. At age eleven he received a dispensation and was admitted into the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. In 1856 he received his first silver medal from the Academy and the following year he was awarded a second. Subsequently, he won the Neuhausen Prize for his painting “Husdyr i en Bondegaard”.
In 1866, he received the Academy’s travel grant and went to Paris and later to Italy. His stay in Paris had a particularly deep impact on his work, turning it in a direction characterized by more freedom, more colour, stronger light, and broader scope. He based in Italy in Florence, he studied the works of the old painters of the region, such as “Le Concert champêtre | by Giorgione and Titian. While cholera arrives in Florence, Bache continues his stay in Italy in Naples, Pompeii and finally Rome.
He returned to Denmark in 1868, having become a celebrity in the arts. The booming Danish economy, Otto Bache then received many orders for human and animal portraits. Read more
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