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Michael Ancher
Danish painter (1849–1927) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Michael Peter Ancher (9 June 1849 – 19 September 1927) was a Danish realist artist, and widely known for his paintings of fishermen, the Skagerak and the North Sea, and other scenes from the Danish fishing community in Skagen.
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