page_title: Martinus Rørbye
section_title: Adventurous travels and later career
hierarchical_section_title: Martinus Rørbye / Adventurous travels and later career
context_page_description: Martinus Christian Wesseltoft Rørbye was a Danish painter, known both for genre works and landscapes. He was a central figure of the Golden Age of Danish painting during the first half of the 19th century.
  The most traveled of the Danish Golden Age painters, he traveled both north to Norway and Sweden and south to Italy, Greece and Constantinople. He was also the first Danish painter to take to painting in Skagen at the northern top of Jutland, almost half a century before the thriving community of Skagen Painters formed and came to fame, through Michael Ancher, Anna Ancher and P.S. Krøyer.
context_section_description: In 1834 Rørbye received a travel scholarship from the Academy on account of his talents as a portraitist.  He traveled by way of the Netherlands and France to Rome, In Paris he met Peter Andreas Heiberg, August Bournonville and the French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.
  When he arrived in Rome, he joined the city's thriving Danish artists community which had Bertel Thorvaldsen as its central figure.
  A Group of Danish Artists in Rome, is a painting depicting the artist in Rome, painted by Constantin Hansen. Rørbye is number two from the left sitting behind Bindesbøll who is lying on the floor with a fez he often wore after their visit to Constantinople. Also appearing in the picture are the painter himself, Marstrand, Küchler, Blunck and Jørgen Sonne, sitting on the table.
  In Italy he traveled to Sorrento, the Sabine Mountains, and Sicily.
  The following year Rørbye traveled to Athens accompanied by the architect Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll, one of the compatriots he had met in Rome. From there they continued to Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire, a rare adventure in those days.  He sketched prodigiously during his travels.
caption: A company of Danish artists in Rome
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