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 | | The art of the first half of the 19th century in Copenhagen was perhaps the greatest achievement of Denmark’s Golden Age. |
 | | The sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen and the painter Eckersberg led an artistic renaissance during the Golden Age that produced, with the establishment of an academy in Charlottenborg in 1754, the artists Christen Købke, Jens Juel, Constantin Hansen, Martinus Rørbye, J. Lundbye, Wilhelm Bendz, and Emanuel Larsen to name a few. |
 | | The Royal Collections, what was later to become the National Collection after the peaceful transition to a constitutional monarchy, actively supported these new artists, buying these ‘modern’ pictures the moment they were exhibited. |
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