Peder Balke
Hard luck in the land of supernatural beauty

Peder Balke, The Artists

Portrait of Peder Balke

Peder Balke was a Norwegian artist born in 1804. Balke contributed to the Romantic movement and died in 1887.

North Cape, Peder Balke

North Cape

Steigen, Peder Balke

Steigen

Lighthouse on the Norwegian Coast, Peder Balke

Lighthouse on the Norwegian Coast

Coastal Landscape with Wreck, Peder Balke

Coastal Landscape with Wreck

Månelys, Peder Balke

Månelys

Northern Lights, Peder Balke

Northern Lights

Vardøhus Fortress, Peder Balke

Vardøhus Fortress

The Northern Lights over Four Men in a Rowboat, Peder Balke

The Northern Lights over Four Men in a Rowboat

John Constable, The Artists

John Constable

Nature wins, every time

Eugène Delacroix, The Artists

Eugène Delacroix

Drama, movement and a search for the exotic

Ivan Aivazovsky, The Artists

Ivan Aivazovsky

A military painter sponsored by the state—smells like propaganda

18011900

The second person to invent photography

Hippolyte Bayard

Five kids, a farm, and dizzying allegory

Thomas Cole Peder Balke

The inventor of the steam hammer maps the moon

The inventor of the selfie

Robert Cornelius

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