Christian Albrecht Jensen

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Danish portrait painter (1792-1870)

ArtistsLived 1792 to 1870 · aged 78

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Languages19

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Christian Albrecht Jensen was a Danish painter who specialised in portrait painting and was active during the Danish Golden Age.

Also inDeutsch

Photos 12

The sculptor H. E. Freund portrayed during Jensen's stay in Rome, 1818-20

Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1840

Awards 1

1858Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog

In their orbit 1

ChildThomas Jensen

Artists born in the 1790s 6

Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel49.8

Leopold Kupelwieser49.3

Princess Dorothea of Courland50.2

William Wyon49.2

Philipp Veit50.3

Carl Blechen49.0

About this person

Christian Albrecht Jensen was a Danish painter who specialised in portrait painting and was active during the Danish Golden Age. Painting more than 400 portraits over the course of his career, he depicted most of the leading figures of the Danish Golden Age, including the writer Hans Christian Andersen, the painter Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, the physicist Hans Christian Ørsted and the theologian N. F. S. Grundtvig. Although Jensen experienced considerable commercial success, he received little official appreciation from the artistic establishment of his day. In particular, the art historian and critic Niels Lauritz Høyen criticized his style, finding his paintings 'unfinished'.