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Vilhelm Petersen (painter)
1812Dec, 17

Vilhelm Petersen (painter)

Vilhelm Petersen, Danish painter (d. 1880)
Vilhelm Peter Carl Petersen (17 December 1812 – 25 July 1880 )was a Danish landscape painter. He was one of the first Danish landscape painters to work on Bornholm and in the moorlands of Jutland. Small fishing villages were especially attractive to him.

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