Holger H. Jerichau

He was initially apprenticed to the merchant trade in Germany and Italy, but displayed little aptitude for that career.

He lived abroad for most of his life; primarily in Italy, but also in southern Russia and Asia, including a year in India (1893–94).

Most of his Danish landscapes are from 1885 and 1886, when he lived near Hørsholm and married Anna Frederikke Birch, daughter of the local registrar.

Their son, Jens Adolf [da], a promising Expressionist painter, committed suicide at the age of twenty-five.

Despite the cultural diversity of the places where he lived and visited, his choice of subjects is often banal and the colors very simple.