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| | History of Art: Romanticism |
 | | Although Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard (1743-1809) was a friend of Fuseli and Alexander Runciman in Rome, and adopted many of their subjective traits and formal distortions to increase the expressiveness of his motifs, he nevertheless ran his academy classes along largely neoclassical lines. |
 | | The academy's director, Jens Juel (1745—1802), was likewise beholding to this tradition, yet in small landscapes done around 1800 he anticipated the naturalism that would soon come to the fore in Germany, in the work, for instance, of Wilhelm von Kobell (1766-1856). |
 | | The son of a vicar at Gamborg on Funen, Juel went to Hamburg (then under Danish sovereignty), where he studied under the German artist Johann Michael Gehrmann (d 1770). |
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