Later in his life, he was bruised again when his enormous and painstakingly crafted masterpiece Five Portraits proved impossible to sell in his home country and went instead to Sweden. (https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2005/jul/06/art) In Five Portraits, Hammershøi depicted (left to right) Thorvald Bindesbøll, Svend Hammershøi (his brother, foreground, with pipe), Karl Madsen, Jens Ferdinand Willumsen, Carl Vilhelm Holsøe