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The experts at Sotheby's read the year next to the signature as 1953, but they must surely have meant 1853. Sørensen was in the Netherlands at that time.</div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Carl_Frederik_S%C3%B8rensen" class="extiw" title="w:en:Carl Frederik Sørensen"><span title="Danish artist (1818-1879)">Carl Frederik Sørensen</span></a>
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