Brief Biography-Vilhelm Melbye was born in Helsingør, Denmark, in 1824. His brother, Anton, a marine artist, tutored him in seascapes. He entered the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1884 for three years. He sailed to Iceland with the Navy in 1847 and traversed the north coast of Denmark, where he got most of his inspiration. From 1851 he visited numerous European countries and exhibited in Paris. Melbye worked out of London until 1867, visiting other countries intermittently, and he married and settled in Roskilde on the Roskilde Fjord near Copenhagen in 1854. He exhibited in Vienna and Paris and regularly visited Norway and Sweden, where he sold many works. In 1880 Melbye became a professor at the Royal Danish Academy after being awarded the Order of Dannebrog in 1976. His younger brother Fritz was also a marine painter who travelled the Americas and Asia.