JERICHAU, Jens Adolph - b. 1818 Assens, d. 1883 Neder Droby, Frederikssund

Jens Adolph Jerichau (usually J. A. Jerichau), Danish sculptor. He received his art education initially at the Academy in Copenhagen and from 1839 in Rome, becoming a pupil of his distinguished compatriot Thorvaldsen. He established his calling through a bas-relief on a frieze in a royal castle in Christiansborg near Copenhagen, depicting the marriage of Alexander the Great to Roxane. His colossal sculpture Hercules and Hebe as well as a marble statue of Penelope are in a strong classical style. He created a splendid depiction of nature in a sculpture depicting a panther attacking a hunter.

As a result of a commission from the Princess of Prussia, he produced a depiction of the resurrection of Christ. His Bathing Women is also splendid. He died on 25 July, 1883.

His wife, Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, was a painter as was his son Harald Jerichau. A number of his most famous works were damaged or ruined in a fire in the Christiansborg Palace in 1884.