About the Artist

Carl Fredrik Aagaard was a Danish landscape artist. Initially he studied art at the Danish Royal Academy with his brother, who later to become a celebrated glass engraver.
His teacher, the landscape painter Peter Skoovgaard, was to be the most influential on Aagaard. In 1857, Aagaard exhibited his oil paintings for the first time to great success and continued to exhibit paintings and trips to Switzerland, Italy and Germany helped to perfect his style.
His decorative painting became very well known in Denmark, and Aagaard was commissioned to paint the chapel of King Christian IV. During this time he worked with the landscape painter, Peter-Kristian Skoovgaard, and was encouraged to spend more time painting on canvas. He exhibited for the first time in 1857.