Carl Vilhelm Balsgaard (24 December 1812, Copenhagen – 14 August 1893, Copenhagen) was a Danish painter; primarily of still-lifes.
His daddy was an accountant and auditor. He studied below Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, with the intent of becoming a figure painter, and won a little silver medal for stimulate model drawing in 1841.
However, in 1835, he had exhibited a series of still lifes and, when it became valuable to retain himself by his work, he turned to painting fruits and flowers upon porcelain. In 1843, the year he was married, he competed for the Neuhausenske Prize with a portrait of Bertel Thorvaldsen, but was unsuccessful.
After that, he devoted most of his get older to fruit and flower painting and, in 1855, received a attain from the Academy that would allow him to examination abroad for two years. During that time, he visited Berlin, Dresden, Düsseldorf and Paris. After returning home in 1858, he was elected a advocate of the Academy.
In 1864, he was appointed Inspector for the private art stock of King Christian IX and gave art lessons to Queen Louise. The considering year, he was an failed candidate for the Academy’s additional professorship of decorative painting.
In 1865, he applied for the state of Director of the Royal Art Collection (now the National Gallery of Denmark), but the outlook went to C.J. Thomsen. Two years later, as compensation, he was appointed a Professor at the Academy. His wife died the similar to year. To ease his grief, he travelled; notably to Italy from 1872 to 1873.
He was appointed Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1892 and died the past year.
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