Frants Henningsen

His connections with Denmark's more traditional, realist school encouraged criticism from many of his more reactionary contemporaries, especially Karl Madsen who objected to his appointment as a professor at the Academy in 1887.

In 1878, he travelled to Spain together with Peder Severin Krøyer, Frans Schwartz [da] and Julius Lange.

Despite his studies under Bonnat, he remained a rather traditional, though diligent and careful artist, portraying everything from portraits, genre works, and landscapes to animal paintings and illustrations.

His painting of En Begravelse (A Funeral) (1883) shows how he had mastered the use of colour from the Spanish school, for example Diego Velázquez.

His dark tones and a deep, dull black are not unlike Édouard Manet and the early works of Krøyer.