Making an impression: National Gallery of Canada puts Ordrupgaard Collection front and centre this summer

A little more than a century ago, Danish businessman Wilhelm Hansen made his fortune in insurance and spent it on art.
In 1892, a year after he and his wife, Henny, were married, they bought their first painting, a small oil study of a cow. By 1918, the couple had collected 140 paintings by 19th century Danish artists and had begun amassing French paintings also from the previous century. Thanks to a burst of buying in Paris between 1916 and 1920, into their hands came works by Manet and Monet,