Thomas Fearnley

Thomas Fearnley (27 December 1802 -16 January 1842) was a Norwegian romantic painter, a pupil of Johan Christian Dahl and a leading representative of Norwegian romantic nationalism in painting.

His son Thomas Fearnley (1841–1927) founded the Fearnley dynasty of shipping magnates.

Thomas Fearnley was born in Frederikshald (now Halden), in Østfold county, Norway. He was the son of merchant Thomas Fearnley (1768–1834) and Maren Sophie Paus (1782–1838). Fearnley's grandfather, merchant Thomas Fearnley (1729–1798), immigrated from Hull[1] in England to Frederikshald in Norway in 1753. His mother belonged to the prominent Norwegian Paus family. He was the brother of astronomer Carl Frederik Fearnley.

In 1840, he married Cecilia Catharine Andresen (1817–1888). She was the daughter of his benefactor, banker Nicolai Andresen, who founded what became the Andresen Bank, one of Norway's largest commercial banks of its time. In the autumn of 1841, the couple went to Amsterdam for the birth of their only child, Thomas Nicolay Fearnley (1841-1927), who became a Norwegian shipping magnate. His grandsons were shipping magnate Thomas Fearnley (1880–1961) and land owner N. O. Young Fearnley. His descendants founded the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in 1993.

Thomas Fearnley attended National Cadet Corps (Landkadettkorpset) 1814-1819. He was a student of the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry (Den kongelige Tegneskole) (1819-1821), Art Academy (Kunstakadamie) in Copenhagen (1821-1823) and the Art Academy (Konstakadamien) in (1823–27) under .

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