#Copenhagen (1882)

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The Joseph Conrad at anchor in Sydney Harbour, 1935

The iron-hulled sailing ship Joseph Conrad was originally launched as George Stage in Copenhagen in 1882 as a training ship for young sailors.

In 1934 George Stage was about to be broken up when Australian author and sailor Alan Villiers bought the vessel, renaming it after his favourite author.

The vessel is now a part of the collection at the Mystic Seaport museum in Connecticut.

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Bertha Wegmann (Danish, 1846-1926) • Interior with field bouquet, the artist's paint box, palette and a half-smoked cigar • 1882 • The Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen, Denmark

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A Study in Scarlet: Tobias Gregson Shows What He Can Do

Of the three papers mentioned here, only the Daily Telegraph still exists - the Standard and the Daily News have since merged into other publications.

Anti-immigrant sentiment was definitely a thing on both sides of the Atlantic by this point - the Chinese Exclusion Act being passed in the US in 1882.

London had a very large number of homeless people, who would seek any available shelter at night. The police generally left them alone unless their superiors ordered them to do something so they could look good in the press.

Sub-Lieutenant is the second lowest officer rank in the Royal Navy, above Midshipman - today the latter are promoted automatically after twelve months of service, during their training for their specific roles.

Train times were pretty irregular in Victorian Britain; "clock-face scheduling" was not a thing yet.

Wouldn't the label say København i.e. the Danish name of Copenhagen?

Klinger points out that a pound a day each was well above market rate for the time. 

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Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Tent Room | Schloss Charlottenhof, Potsdam, Germany, 1882-1890 VS Arne Jacobsen, Bellevue Teatret, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1936

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Anna Ancher (Danish painter) 1859 - 1935

Wife with a child sitting in front of tailor Uggerholt's house, 1889

aka Skagenskone med den lille Helga Ancher på skødet i solskin foran et hvidkalket hus (A woman from Skagen sitting with the infant Helga Ancher in front of a white house), 1889

pastel

50 x 63 cm. (19.69 x 24.8 in.)

signed A. Ancher 89

Skagens Museum, Skagen, Denmark

© photo Bruun Rasmussen

The pastel was made by Anna Ancher after a stay in Paris, and although the motif is entirely Skagen, the work perhaps also bears a little touch of the southern sun and inspiration from the French Impressionists.

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Anna Kirstine Brøndum was born in Skagen, Denmark the daughter of Erik Andersen Brøndum (1820–1890) and Ane Hedvig Møller (1826-1916). She was the only one of the Skagen Painters who was actually born and grew up in Skagen where her father owned the Brøndums Hotel. The artistic talent of Anna Ancher became obvious at an early age and she grew acquainted with pictorial art via the many artists who settled to paint in Skagen, in north of Jutland.

While she studied drawing for three years at the Vilhelm Kyhn College of Painting in Copenhagen, she developed her own style and was a pioneer in observing the interplay of different colours in natural light. She also studied drawing in Paris at the atelier of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes along with Marie Triepcke, who would marry Peder Severin Krøyer, another Skagen painter. In 1880 she married fellow painter Michael Ancher, whom she met in Skagen. They had one daughter, Helga Ancher. Despite pressure from society that married women should devote themselves to household duties, she continued painting after marriage.

Anna Ancher is considered to be one of the great Danish pictorial artists by virtue of her abilities as a character painter and colourist.Her art found its expression in Nordic art's modern breakthrough towards a more truthful depiction of reality, e.g. in Blue Ane (1882) and The Girl in the Kitchen (1883–1886).

Ancher preferred to paint interiors and simple themes from the everyday lives of the Skagen people, especially fishermen, women and children. She was intensely preoccupied with exploring light and colour, as in Interior with Clematis (1913). She also created more complex compositions such as A Funeral (1891). Anna Ancher's works have often represented Danish art abroad. She was awarded the Ingenio et Arti medal in 1913 and the Tagea Brandt Rejselegat in 1924.

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Caroline Emilie Mundt (22 August 1842, Sorø – 25 October 1922, Frederiksberg) was a Danish painter, known for her portraits of children.

Her father, Carl Emil Mundt, was a Professor of mathematics at the Sorø Academy. Her mother died when she was three and her father moved the family to Copenhagen. As a child, her home was filled with political and philosophical discussions, as her father was also a member of the Danish Constituent Assembly and her uncle, J.H. Mundt [da], was the Mayor of Copenhagen.

She and her sister, Jacobine, received their basic education at N. Zahle's School and, in 1861, she took an exam to become a private tutor. However, her drawing teacher, Frederik Helsted was impressed with her artistic talent so, after graduation, she became a drawing and writing teacher at the school.

At the age of thirty, she finally set out to become an artist and enrolled at the "Painting School for Women", operated by Vilhelm Kyhn. It was there she met her life partner, Marie Luplau.In 1875, she unsuccessfully sought to gain admission to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts so, following the advice of Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, she and Luplau went to Munich to continue their studies with Eilif Peterssen.

During a later period of study in Paris at the Académie Colarossi (1882-1884), she was influenced by the works of Jules Breton and Jules Bastien-Lepage. Their depictions of the lives of poor people inspired her to create a series of paintings on the lives of poor children, many of which were done at a local orphanage.

In 1886, she and Luplau set up their own painting school for women in Frederiksberg, which was in operation until 1913. They were also diligent campaigners for women's suffrage and, in 1890, adopted a young girl named Carla. In 1916, she became one of the first members of the Kvindelige Kunstneres Samfund (Women's Art Society).

In addition to paintings of children, she is known for scenes of peasant life; many created during a stay at the art colony in Pont-Aven, Brittany.

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Peter Rostrup Bøyesen (Jan. 16, 1882 - 1952) was a Danish post-impressionist artist, trained mainly at Zahrtmann's school, but also briefly at the Academy. He depicted the changing city and landscape of Copenhagen, and its population, and became increasingly socially conscious.

Here is a canvas from SMK:

Vinter på Nørrebro, 1913-14 - oil on canvas

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Maria Nielsen (1882–1931) was a Danish historian and headmistress. In 1919, she became one of the first women in Denmark to head a public high school when she was appointed rector of Rysensteen Gymnasium in Copenhagen. She was particularly attentive to pupils from needy homes and strove to provide better living conditions for her female students. Nielsen also published well-sourced history textbooks in an attempt to move away from rote learning. In 1926, she was behind the establishment of Denmark's History Teachers' Union (Historielærerforening) which she chaired until her death. She was also active in the educational activities of the League of Nations, participating in sessions held in Geneva. via Wikipedia

Born in Vemmetofte Parish, Faxe Municipality, on 20 September 1882

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Events 3.29 (before 1960)

1430 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of Venice. 1461 – Battle of Towton: Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England, bringing a temporary stop to the Wars of the Roses. 1549 – The city of Salvador, Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded. 1632 – Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629. 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13 days earlier. 1806 – Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway. 1809 – King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d'état. 1809 – At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden. 1847 – Mexican–American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege. 1849 – The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab. 1857 – Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry mutinies against the East India Company's rule in India and inspires the protracted Indian Rebellion of 1857, also known as the Sepoy Mutiny. 1867 – Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes Canada on July 1. 1871 – Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria. 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus. 1882 – The Knights of Columbus is established. 1927 – Sunbeam 1000hp breaks the land speed record at Daytona Beach, Florida. 1936 – The 1936 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for the recent remilitarization of the Rhineland. 1941 – The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement goes into effect at 03:00 local time. 1941 – World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan. 1942 – The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II is the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city. 1947 – Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule begins in Madagascar. 1951 – Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. 1951 – Hypnosis murders in Copenhagen. 1957 – The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.

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Two of the Danish ships which are seized at Copenhagen entering Portsmouth Harbour’ in 1808 and then retitled ‘Boat’s crew recovering an anchor” in 1809, painted by J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), engraved by William Miller (1796-1882)

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"Paris". 1928.

'Gerda Gottlieb Wegener Porta (15 March 1886 - 28 July 1940) was a Danish illustrator and painter best known for her erotica. She moved to Copenhagen to pursue her education at the Royal Art Academy, and married fellow artist Einar Wegener (later Lili Elbe) (1882–1931) in 1904. After moving to Paris in 1912, she found much success both as a painter and as illustrator. Her career relied on a phenomenal talent but perhaps even more so on her notorious diligence, and the advantages that her unusual marriage brought her.

Lili Elbe, who by many at the time was considered a more talented artist, toned down her own work and profile to help her wife in her artistic endeavors. Posing for Gerda in women's clothes, Lili became Gerda's favorite model, and eventually came out as a male-to-female transsexual woman. She had the first publicly known sex reassignment surgery in history in 1930. Her partner supported Elbe throughout her transition. Lili Elbe was an intersex person and one of the first identifiable[1] recipients of sex reassignment surgery. Elbe was born in Denmark as Einar Mogens Wegener and was a successful artist under that name. She also presented as Lili, sometimes spelled Lily and publicly was introduced as Einar's sister. After transitioning, however, she made a legal name change and stopped painting.

The Danish Girl, David Ebershoff's 2001 novel about Elbe was an international bestseller and was translated into a dozen languages. The novel is being developed for the screen The Danish Girl by producers Gail Mutrux and Neil LaBute (from Wikipedia)'

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Via Female Artists in History Bertha Wegmann (Danish painter) 1847 - 1926

Interiør med markbuket, kunstnerens malerkasse, palet og en halvt røget cerut (Interior with a bunch of wild flowers, the artist’s paint box, a palette and a half-smoked cheroot), ca. 1882

oil on canvas

86 x 101 cm. (33.85 x 39.76 in.)

The Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen, Denmark

© photo The Hirschsprung Collection

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Vilhelm Rosenstand - Outside the Café A Porta, Copenhagen (1882)

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Vilhelm Rosenstand / “Outside Café A Porta, at Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen” / 1882 / National Museum of Fine Arts, Stockholm