Christian Albrecht Jensen

• Name — Christian Albrecht Jensen • Born — 26 June 1792 • Birthplace — Bredstedt, Duchy of Schleswig • Died — 13 July 1870 • Place of death — Copenhagen, Denmark • Known for — Painting • Training — Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts • Movement — Danish Golden Age

Jensen was born at Bredstedt in Nordfriesland. From 1810 to 1816, he attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen where he studied under Christian August Lorentzen. From 1817 to 1818, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden.

• Illustration — The sculptor H. E. Freund portrayed during Jensen's stay in Rome, 1818–20 In 1818, he traveled to Rome by way of Vienna, Venice, Bologna and Florence. When he arrived, he joined the large colony of Danish-German artists' who lived in the city at the time and also met the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen. During his years in Rome, Jensen painted small, informal portraits of many of his fellow artists, including the writer Bernhard Severin Ingemann who visited Rome from 1818 to 1819, and the sculptor Hermann Ernst Freund, Thorvaldsen's closest associate from 1818 to 1828. After leaving Rome, he made an unsuccessful attempt to establish himself as a portrait painter in Hamburg.

The 1840s brought a further decline in orders, prompted by his political views which were not in line with the nationalist tendencies at the time as well as by continued criticism from Høyen. Eventually, after completing more than 400 portraits, he stopped painting. His last two works, portraits of Andreas Christian Krog (1854) and the theologian Andreas Gottlob Rudelbach, are considered to be among his best. For the remainder of his life, he worked as an assistant at the Royal Print Collection and as a conservator, supplementing his income by selling paintings from his large art collection.

• Illustration — Cecilie Lønborg, 1819 • Illustration — Cathrine Jensen (the artist's wife), 1825 • Illustration — Birgitte Sobotker Hohlenberg, 1826 • Illustration — Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, 1832 • Illustration — Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1832 • Illustration — Hans Christian Andersen, 1836 • Illustration — William Martin Leake, National Portrait Gallery, London, 1838 • Illustration — Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1840 • Illustration — N. F. S. Grundtvig, 1843 • Illustration — Andreas Gottlob Rudelbach, 1858

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