Antonio Jacobsen

Antonio Jacobsen studied at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. The recorded working language is English. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are marine. Places of work recorded in the authority are New York City. Work by Antonio Jacobsen is recorded in the collections of Australian National Maritime Museum, Royal Museums Greenwich, Smithsonian American Art Museum, New York Historical and New Britain Museum of American Art.

• Name — Antonio Jacobsen • Born — 2 November 1850 • Birthplace — Copenhagen, Denmark • Died — 2 February 1921 • Place of death — New York City, U.S. • Training — Royal Academy of Design, Copenhagen • Field — Maritime art • Children — 3 • Illustration — "The Forteviot," 1896

Jacobsen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark where he attended the Royal Academy of Design before heading across the Atlantic Ocean. He arrived in the United States in August 1873. He settled in West Hoboken, New Jersey (now Union City, New Jersey), across the Hudson River from Manhattan and New York Harbor, its port filled with ships from America and around the world. Jacobsen got his start painting pictures of ships on safes, and as his reputation grew, he was asked to do portraits of ships by their owners, captains and crew members, with many of his works selling for five dollars. Jacobsen painted more than 6,000 portraits of sail and steam vessels, making him "the most prolific of marine artists". Many of his commissions came from sea captains, and Jacobsen was chosen both for the accuracy of his work and his low fee.

Jacobsen and his wife Mary had three children; Carl, Helen and Alphonse. Mary died in 1909.

• Illustration — Schooner Thomas Winsmore, Independence Seaport Museum • Illustration — Portland 1890 • Illustration — The Alaska Rehs Galleries • Illustration — The SS Bunker Hill Rehs Galleries • Illustration — The City of New Bedford Rehs Galleries • Illustration — New York Yacht Club Race, 1878 Rehs Galleries • Illustration — An American Clipper Rehs Galleries • Illustration — S.S. Mohawk, dated 1911 • Illustration — In the trough of the seas, USS Adams in the collection at The Mariners' Museum • Illustration — County of Edinburgh on the Beach in the collection at The Mariners' Museum • Illustration — Samar in New York Harbor in the collection at The Mariners' Museum • Illustration — U.S. Navy Gunboat Adams in the collection at The Mariners' Museum • Illustration — Pilot Schooner Fannie in the collection at The Mariners' Museum • Illustration — Steamship Chicago City in the collection at The Mariners' Museum • Illustration — SS Columbia in a private gallery

The authorities additionally record the headings Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jaconsen, Antonio Nicolo Gaspara Jacobsen, Antonio N. Jacobsen, Anthony Jacobsen and Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen. His recorded language was English.