Peter Nicolai Arbo belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Peter Nicolai Arbo as Norwegian painter (1831–1892).
Peter Nicolai Arbo was born at Gulskogen in 1831. His recorded nationality is Norway.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter.
Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
Recognition followed: Knight of the Order of St. Olav.
That the work was made in Norway shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Peter Nicolai Arbo died in 1892, aged 61. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Knight of the Order of St. Olav
