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Thim [Timm], Reinholt [Reinhold; Reinholdt]
( fl Italy, 1615–16; d Sorö, 12 Jan 1639). Painter, active in Denmark. Between 1618 and 1631 he executed seven of the thirty ceiling paintings commissioned by Christian IV, King of Denmark and Norway, for the Banqueting Hall at Rosenborg Slot, Copenhagen. Often directly copying elements from paintings by the Italian Mannerists, Thim contributed Apollo, the Children of the Sun, Mercury’s Children, Adolescence, Youth, Infancy (a studio collaboration) Rhetoric (also attributed to Pieter Isaacsz; all Helsingør, Kronborg Slot; formerly known respectively as Battle on a Bridge, the Sculptor’s Workshop, the Tilting Competition, the Girls’ School, The Nursery and the Lesson at the Noble Academy) and Cadmus and the Three-headed Dragon (Kolding, Castle Mus.). In 1623 Thim became an art teacher at the Noble Academy in Sorö. His later known works included a portrait of Prince Valdemar Christian (1631–4; Valdemar), two Epitaphs (1625, Køge, St Nicholas; 1634, Nykøbing, parish church) and an altarpiece (1634; Dienisse, parish church).
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