Jacob Calmeyer

Jacob Mathias Calmeyer (30 October 1802 – 3 August 1883) was a Norwegian painter.

He was admitted in 1819 as part of the first class of students at the newly established Norwegian Royal Drawing School in Christiania.

Among his teachers were Jacob Munch and Johannes Flintoe.

Between 1821 and 1826 he was a student at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen where he trained under Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg.

He is represented in the National Gallery of Norway with the paintings Svartediket ved Bergen and Lysakerfossen.

Jacob Calmeyer, self-portrait.