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Jens Juel

Born: Balsley, Fünen, 12 May 1745
Died: Copenhagen, 27 December 1802
Nationality: Danish
Background: 

son of a minister

Studies: 

with Johann Michael Gehrmann (Hamburg); with Carl Gustaf Pilo at Royal Danish Art Academy (Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, hereafter Copenhagen Academy; 1765-71)

Career: 

1769 –commissionfor portrait of Queen Caroline Mathilde (National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen)

1771 – wins Great Gold Medal at Copenhagen Academy

1780 – appointed court painter

1782 – elected member of Copenhagen Academy

1784 – becomes professor at Copenhagen Academy

1795-97 and 1799-1801 – director of Copenhagen Academy

Travels

Hamburg (early 1760s, 1772); Copenhagen (1765-1772; 1780); Dresden (1773-74); Rome (1774-76); Paris (1776-77); Geneva (1777-79)

Commissions from: 

Christian VII (King of Denmark)

Important Artworks: 

The Roman Dwarf Francesco Ravai, Called Bajocco, 1774-76 (National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen)

View of the Fields at Jaegerpris, 1782 (National Gallery of Denmark)

The Crossing over the Little Belt at Snoghøj. Moonrise, 1787 (National Gallery of Denmark)

Dance Glade at Sorgenfri, 1800 (National Gallery of Denmark)

A Running Boy. Marcus Holst von Schmidten, 1802 (National Gallery of Denmark)