Louise Bonfils

Her brother, Sophus Carl Emmanuel Bonfils, trained as a bookseller at G.E.C. Gad, owned a bookshop and from 1893 to 1896 was chairman of the Copenhagen Booksellers Association. According to the official censuses in Copenhagen, Louise Bonfils lived with her father and brothers in her childhood home on Gammel Kongevej until 1901, after which she moved to the Kunstnerhjemmet in Gothersgade. Here she lived next door to another well-known marine painter, Vilhelm Arnesen. She died unmarried in Copenhagen and is buried at Solbjerg Park Cemetery in Frederiksberg.

• Illustration — Ships on the Sundet on a summer day, 1878 • Illustration — Sailing boats off a rocky coast, 1885 • Illustration — Coast, 1887 • Illustration — Coast with small boats on the shoreline, 1887 • Illustration — Beach in Villingebæk, Nordsjælland, 1887 • Illustration — Coast with sailing ships and steamships off Kronborg beach, 1890 • Illustration — Coast with house and boats, 1901 • Illustration — Coast from Gammel Skagen. Eftermiddag, 1903 • Illustration — Evening Stavanger Fjord, 1909 • Illustration — Showers at Hornbæk, 1921 • Illustration — Harbour with two small sailing ships, 1883 • Illustration — People in conversation on a sunlit street in Dragør, 1894 • Illustration — Boats in Gilleleje harbour, 1927