Brief Biography-Vilhelm Hammershøi was born in Copenhagen in 1864. He began drawing at eight and studied later at the Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He also studied alongside Peder Severin Krøyer for two years at the Independent Study Schools. He became very successful in Germany, and he visited London, where he found inspiration and was appreciated. However, the art world largely ignored Hammershøi’s work after his death in 1916. The renewed interest in his paintings happened in the 1970s. His most outstanding images are of bleak interiors, bathed in benumbed sunlight, with only the life of floating dust. Hammershøi’s pictures can seize your attention. Regardless of how empty they may feel, they will mesmerise.