Ernest Ludvig Ipsen (1869-1951)

Ernest Ludvig Ipsen (1869-1951)

Born to Danish parents in Malden, Massachusetts, in 1869, Ernest Ludvig Ipsen knew he wanted to become an artist by the time he was sixteen years old. He began his training at Boston’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts from 1885 until 1887, and later went abroad to Denmark and studied at the Copenhagen Royal Academy for four years. Upon his return to Boston, Ipsen worked under the direction of renowned portrait painter Frederick Porter Vinton, whose success may have inspired the younger artist’s own foray into portraiture. Ipsen’s talents for capturing the likenesses of his sitters soon garnered international recognition, and his extensive clientele hailed from academia, business circles and the highest echelons of government; a portrait of President Howard Taft painted in 1929 now resides in the collection of the U. S. Supreme Court. By 1908, the artist had married and relocated to New York, but also maintained a summer residence in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

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Ipsen was a member of the Salmagundi Club, the American Water Color Society and the Century Association, and in 1924 the National Academy of Design inducted him as a full Academician. His work was exhibited locally at the Boston Art Club from 1895 to 1909 and the New Bedford Art Club during the teens, and he participated in the annuals at the National Academy, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Corcoran Gallery of Art during the 1920s. In 1941, Ipsen moved to Florida where he continued working almost up to the time of his passing in 1951. Two years later Vose Galleries hosted an exhibition featuring a selection of quality paintings from his estate. 

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