Vintage Framed Poster For Christen Kobke Exhibition - National Galleries Of Scotland - 2010 Christen Schiellerup Købke (26 May 18107 February 1848) was a Danish painter, and one of the best-known artists from the Golden Age of Danish Painting. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. At the age of 11 he suffered from a bout of rheumatic fever. He made many drawings during his convalescence and decided that he would become an artist. In 1822 at 12 years of age he started his studies at Royal Danish Academy of Art He lived in Kastellet until 1833 and made many paintings of the area. His painting "Gården ved bageriet i Kastellet" (ca. 1832) hangs in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek museum in Copenhagen. In 1832 he shared a studio with his friend, landscape painter Frederik Hansen Sødring (18091862). He painted a portrait of Sødring which now hangs in the Hirschsprung Collection. In 1834 he moved, along with his parents, outside of Copenhagen's fortifications near Sortedam Lake (Sortedamssø