Otto Bache

Otto Bache was a Danish Realist painter who received early recognition as a portrait painter. He also showed great interest in painting animal motifs, gradually also turning to genre works and history painting. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts under Wilhelm Marstrand and received the Academy's travel grant in 1866. He went to Paris and later to Italy, where he was influenced by the French Realist movement. He returned to Denmark in 1868 and married. He was named a Commander in the Order of the Dannebrog and later was awarded the Dannebrogordenens Hæderstegn. He served as the director of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts for several terms. He was the father of lawyer Niels Haagensen Bache. Some of his notable works include A Pack of Horses Outside an Inn, The Conspirators Ride from Finderup After the Murder of Eric Klipping, and Danish Soldiers Return to Copenhagen in 1848. He died in Copenhagen in 1927 at the age of 87.