Sally Henriques: 20 cool facts

Sally (Salomon) Ruben Henriques (14 November 1815 – 29 April 1886) was a Jewish-Danish painter. He was born and died in Copenhagen and portrayed the city in his pictures.

Sally Henriques was born on 14 November 1815 into a Jewish family. His parents were Ruben Henriques, a merchant and addition broker, and Jorika (Jeruchim) Melchior. Twenty years old, after three years of training in a business office, he established to leisure interest a career in painting. His two younger brothers, Samuel and Nathan, also painted. He was all the rage into the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1836 afterward a letter of information from Gustav Friedrich Hetsch, a leading architect of the time, and in 1837 he innovative to the Model School but never attended. Instead he studied at the private painting schools of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg and J. L. Lund.

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He exhibited at Charlottenborg in the middle of 1840 and 1844 and various additional exhibitions in the region of Copenhagen but never achieved commercial deed as a painter. Instead he set up a thing as a house painter and decorator in the past taking exceeding an archaic shop after his brother Samuel in 1849.

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