The Precision of a Danish Hand To look at the surviving works of Georg Raedel is to encounter the disciplined reality of mid-19th-century Danish portraiture. He was not a painter of grand, sweeping abstractions, but a technician of the specific. His output, preserved in institutions like the Statens Museum for Kunst and the Fitzwilliam Museum, reveals a man preoccupied with the tactile truth of his subjects. He worked with a clarity t…