One of his most well-known works is Negotiating the 1915 Constitution which features prominently in Christiansborg Palace.

[1] Herman Albert Gude Vedel was born in Copenhagen, Denmark.

He attended the Copenhagen Technical College where he trained under Henrik Grønvold (1858–1940).

After his debut at Charlottenborg with Portrait of a young girl in 1900 (Danish National Gallery), he quickly became a sought after portraitist.

He painted a vast number of prominent figures of his time, including, critic and scholar Georg Brandes, Nobel Prize-winning author Johannes V. Jensen and polar explorer Knud Rasmussen.