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Høyer, Cornelius
(bapt Hellebæk, nr Helsingør, 26 Feb 1741; d Copenhagen, 2 June 1804). Danish miniature painter. He trained at the Kunstakademi, Copenhagen, from about 1755 to 1764, and he was particularly influenced by Carl Gustav Pilo and by Louis Tocqué, who was in Copenhagen in 1758–9. Awarded a travel grant by King Frederick V, Høyer went to Paris and received further instruction in miniature painting. From 1765 he attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and became the favourite pupil of Jean-Baptiste Massé. Two fine miniature portraits of an unknown man and woman (both Paris, Louvre) date from this period. He spent the years 1766–7 in Rome studying and copying miniatures by Rosalba Carriera. By then he was already a fully fledged artist. He travelled home via Dresden, where he stayed for nine months to paint the family of the Elector Frederick-Augustus III (untraced).
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