Peter Hendrik came from a long line of shoemakers in Svendborg, on the island of Funen in south-central Denmark. For reasons that may have been at least partly tied to the socioeconomic conditions of the time, he broke from family tradition and moved to Horsens as an apprentice. There, he trained as a house painter, developed his skills as...
Henrik remained in Denmark, though some of his descendants later settled in the UK. Read their story here. In the UK, Erin was the artist of the family, as was his second cousin Henri in France. Although both inherited the artistic talent of their paternal great-grandfather, Peter Hendrik, they never had the chance to know...
The Hvilsted family stayed in Denmark. Their story is told here.