Artist
Christian Albrecht Jensen
Kingdom of Denmark, 1792–1870
Christian Albrecht Jensen was a Kingdom of Denmark Realism painter. 40 works are cataloged here, principally at Statens Museum for Kunst, most of them oil paintings. Christian Albrecht Jensen was born in Bredstedt.
Christian Albrecht Jensen (26 June 1792 – 13 July 1870) 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'.
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