Dr. Johann Henning Kjetil Hjardemaal
Medium
oil on fabric
Dimensions
unframed: 33.5 × 25.6 cm · framed: 45 × 37 × 7.5 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Accession Number
1987.51
Tags
male
About this artwork
The sitter (1812-1844) was born on the island of Saint Thomas, at that time a colony in the Danish West Indies. He was sent to Copenhagen to study medicine and later set up practice at Satrup in Schleswig, then part of Denmark. For health reasons, he returned with his wife to the Virgin Islands, where they both died in 1844.