August Schiøtt

After his confirmation, he was sent to school in Copenhagen where he later entered the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and had an undistinguished academic record.

In addition to these portraits, his most notable include those of Baron Carl Frederik Blixen-Finecke, who was the grandfather-in-law of Karen Blixen, General Gerhard Christoph von Krogh, and the history painter J.L.

[5][6] He was married in 1850, to Betty Augusta Ultima Søth (1820–1853), but she wife died three years later, after they returned from an Academy supported study trip to France, England and Italy.

This enabled him to visit Southern Europe, Egypt and Palestine where he made numerous sketches of people and landscapes.

[5] In addition to his portraits, he created numerous figure compositions, such as King Wermund with his son Offa, Christ at Gethsemane and genre scenes of peasant life.