Harald Adolf Nikolaj Jerichau

Place: Copenhagen

Born: 1851

Death: 1878

Biography:

Harald Adolf Nikolaj Jerichau (18 August 1851 – 6 March 1878) was a Danish landscape painter. He received his first formal drawing lessons from the architect C. V. Nielsen and studied perspective at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1868. Jerichau's father was the sculptor, Jens Adolf Jerichau, and his mother was the painter, Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. His younger brother, Holger H. Jerichau, also became a painter, while his older brother, Thorald Jerichau, was a composer.