Christian Albrecht Jensen
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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 depi
Self-portrait, 1836
The sculptor H. E. Freund portrayed during Jensen's stay in Rome, 1818–20
Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1840
Cecilie Lønborg, 1819
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg was a Danish painter. He was born in Blåkrog in the Duchy of Schleswig. He went on to lay the foundation for the period of art known as the Golden Age of Danish Painting
Christian Albrecht Jensen
…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…
Portrait by Christian Albrecht Jensen, 1832
Self portrait at the age of twenty-eight (1811)
View north towards Kronborg Castle, Denmark
Ulysses Fleeing the Cave of Polyphemus, 1812, Princeton University Art Museum, painted while under the tutelage of Jacques-Louis David