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Title:Portrait of Hans Christian Oersted After Christian Albrecht Jensen oil

Description:Portrait of Hans Christian Oersted 1777-1851 (as he looked in 1844) after Christian Albrecht Jensen (1792-1870). This painting is by an unknown artist and it is similar to the painting by Jensen - see photograph 7 of the Jensen painting. The oil painting we have is 27" x 18" oil on canvas (framed size: 30-1/2" x 21-1/2") unsigned. Has a placque: H.C. Oersted after C.A. Jensen (1844). Appears to be early 20th century. NOTE: We also have an painting listed that is a Portrait of Oersted After Eckersberg (when Oersted was younger). It could be great to own both paintings of Oersted as he appeared as a younger and older gentleman.
Hans Christian Ørsted, Ørsted also spelled Oersted, (born August 14, 1777, Rudkøbing, Denmark—died March 9, 1851, Copenhagen), Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric current in a wire can deflect a magnetized compass needle, a phenomenon the importance of which was rapidly recognized and which inspired the development of electromagnetic theory.
In 1806 Ørsted became a professor at the University of Copenhagen, where his first physical researches dealt with electric currents and acoustics. During an evening lecture in April 1820, Ørsted discovered that a magnetic needle aligns itself perpendicularly to a current-carrying wire, definite experimental evidence of the relationship between electricity and magnetism.
Ørsted’s discovery (1820) of piperine, one of the pungent components of pepper, was an important contribution to chemistry, as was his preparation of metallic aluminum in 1825. In 1824 he founded a society devoted to the spread of scientific knowledge among the general public. Since 1908 this society has awarded an Ørsted Medal for outstanding contributions by Danish physical scientists. In the early 1930s the name oersted was adopted for the physical unit of magnetic field strength in the centimetre-gram-second system.
The work we are offering is after the artist Christian Albrecht Jensen (26 June 1792 – 13 July 1870) was a Danish portrait painter who was active during the Golden Age of Danish Painting in the first half of the 19th century. Painting more than 400 portraits over the course of his career, he depicted most of the leading figures of the Danish Golden Age.

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Portrait of Hans Christian Oersted After Christian Albrecht Jensen oil

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