Theodor Philipsen

Theodor Esbern Philipsen (10 June 1840 – 3 March 1920) was a Danish painter of Jewish ancestry; known for landscapes and animal portraits.

Theodor Philipsen was born at Copenhagen to a cultured merchant family and learned to draw at an early age.

He began his studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts with Carl Bøgh and later came under the influence of Frederik Vermehren.

[1] He was also familiar with the animal portraits of Johan Thomas Lundbye and the 17th-century painter Paulus Potter.

He also obtained knowledge of the radical trends in French art through his friend, Rémy Cogghe, with whom he spent some time in Spain and Italy.