This self-portrait was painted in 1833 by the 21-year-old Gurlitt. It shows a young, self-conscious artist wearing an elegant green painter’s smock to keep spots of oil paint off the neat outfit underneath. That same year, Gurlitt received the academy’s silver medal – an outward expression of the fact that, even while still a student, he was seen as one of Danish art’s great hopes for the future. This was chiefly on account of his landscapes from the North Zealand countryside north of Copenhagen.