Ernest Ludvig Ipsen

Ernest L. Ipsen
Ernest L. Ipsen
Born	September 5, 1869; School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Known for	Painter; Portrait painter
Movement	Impressionism
Parent	Ludvig Sandöe Ipsen (father);
Awards	Thomas R. Proctor Prize, National Academy of Design, 1921; Isaac N. Maynard Prize, National Academy of Design, 1929; Walter Lippincott Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, 1937

Ernest L. Ipsen (1869-1951) was an American painter specializing in portraiture. He painted hundreds of portraits commissioned by institutions of government, education, religion, and commerce who wanted to commemorate their associates. His subjects include architect

Maurice Francis Egan, Minister to Denmark

under three U.S. presidents, was presented to the King and Queen of Denmark. He also painted landscapes and seascapes, particularly along the New England coast.

Early life and education

Ipsen was born September 5, 1869, in

Copenhagen, Denmark

. He studied at the

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 1884 to 1887, under the tutelage of portrait painter Frederic Porter Vinton, who may have influenced his choice to pursue portraiture. He continued his training at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (where his father had studied architecture) from 1887 to 1891. His instructors there included Carl Bloch.^[2] He won a prize for figure studies and a scholarship in life painting.^[3]

Career

Following his study in

South Dartmouth, Massachusetts

.

His work was widely praised for its "sincere, honest statements of personality"[5] and he "would be the choice for a serious, carefully considered portrait without dash or technical bravura of any sort, whose very seriousness brings with it both charm of style and surface."^[6]^{[note 1]}

Personal life

On June 15, 1908, Ipsen married Edith Boyden Crocker of

New Brunswick, Canada, in the summer.^[11]

Edith Ipsen died on January 20, 1948.[12] Ernest Ipsen continued to paint his friends and neighbors, lecture and exhibit locally in Florida until his death in 1951.^[13] They are interred at the Walnut Hills Cemetery in Brookline.

Gallery

Pierre Félix Masseau, 1891
Marblehead, Massachusetts, 1898
South Dartmouth landscape, 1907
Edith Nourse Rogers, 1909
Lucy Carnegie Ferguson, c.1920
Robert H. Nisbet, 1920
William G. Watt, 1923
Cass Gilbert, 1927
Robert E. Lee, 1931
The Artists Guide, Maine, 1935
Milton H. Bird with his champion Irish Terrier Kelvin Colleen, 1943

Notes and references

Notes

^ This may be a subtle dig at Ipsen's contemporary, John Singer Sargent, whose work many considered rather flamboyant.

References

^ "Births Registered in the Town of Malden for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine". familysearch.org. Retrieved June 19, 2022.
^
ISBN 978-0-615-15499-2

^ Lee, Cuthbert (1929). Contemporary American Portrait Painters. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. p. 48.
^ Fielding, Mantle, "Ipsen, Ernest L.," Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers (New York: James F. Carr, 1965).
^ "Macbeth Galleries Show Ernest Ipsen's Portraits". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 2 December 1928. p. 67.
^ "To Whom Shall I Go For My Portrait?". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 17 January 1926. p. 61.
^ "Massachusetts Marriage Records, 1841-1915". familysearch.org. Retrieved June 19, 2022.
^ "Edith Valborg Ipsen". familysearch.org. Retrieved June 19, 2022.
^ "Ipsen, NY Artist, Calls Writers "Pups"". The Boston Globe. 21 July 1923. p. 14.
^ "Wife of Ipsen, Artist, Badly Hurt in Crash". The Boston Globe. 1 June 1938. p. 10.
^ Harrison, Gwen (24 October 1943). "Ipsen Brush Portrays Startling Personalities". The Miami News. p. 25.
^ "Obituary for EDITH B. IPSEN (Aged 76)". The Miami News. 21 January 1948. p. 22.
^ "Obituary for Ernest Ludwig Ipsen (Aged 83)". The Miami News. 4 November 1951. p. 42.

External links

Media related to Ernest Ludvig Ipsen at Wikimedia Commons

Short biography on AskART.com
Name Authority at Union Lists of Artist Names Online (Getty)
Exhibition of portraits, an exhibition catalog available from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries.
List of works maintained by the Smithsonian https://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=ernest+ipsen

[7] This may be a subtle dig at Ipsen's contemporary, John Singer Sargent, whose work many considered rather flamboyant.

[1] "Births Registered in the Town of Malden for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine". familysearch.org. Retrieved June 19, 2022.

[Lowrey-2] 
ISBN 978-0-615-15499-2

[3] Lee, Cuthbert (1929). Contemporary American Portrait Painters. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. p. 48.

[Fielding-4] Fielding, Mantle, "Ipsen, Ernest L.," Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers (New York: James F. Carr, 1965).

[5] "Macbeth Galleries Show Ernest Ipsen's Portraits". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 2 December 1928. p. 67.

[6] "To Whom Shall I Go For My Portrait?". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 17 January 1926. p. 61.

[8] "Massachusetts Marriage Records, 1841-1915". familysearch.org. Retrieved June 19, 2022.

[9] "Edith Valborg Ipsen". familysearch.org. Retrieved June 19, 2022.

[10] "Ipsen, NY Artist, Calls Writers "Pups"". The Boston Globe. 21 July 1923. p. 14.

[11] "Wife of Ipsen, Artist, Badly Hurt in Crash". The Boston Globe. 1 June 1938. p. 10.

[12] Harrison, Gwen (24 October 1943). "Ipsen Brush Portrays Startling Personalities". The Miami News. p. 25.

[13] "Obituary for EDITH B. IPSEN (Aged 76)". The Miami News. 21 January 1948. p. 22.

[14] "Obituary for Ernest Ludwig Ipsen (Aged 83)". The Miami News. 4 November 1951. p. 42.

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