Johan Ludwig Gebhard Lund (1777 – 1867)

• J. L. Lund was a Danish painter.

• Born in Kiel, Duchy of Holstein.

• Lund came to Copenhagen to train as an artist, and in 1797.

• He started his studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Art with the support of Johan Frederik Clemens, acclaimed royal engraver.

• He studied under neoclassicist Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard.

• Lund was friends with Caspar David Friedrich, another student at the Academy.

• He traveled with to Dresden, Germany, and to Paris, where he studied under Jacques-Louis David.

• He went on to Italy, first to Florence and then to Rome, where he lived from 1802 to 1810.

• From 1804 to 1807, he received stipends from the Academy, including a travel allowance to support his stay in Italy.

• He returned to Denmark in 1810.

• He began exhibiting at Charlottenborg in 1812 and exhibited there routinely until 1861.

• He served as Treasurer of the Academy 1821–1832 and again 1854–1866.

• He had a cheerful and positive personality and was fresh and full of life to the age of 89.

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