Thorald Læssøe

Training under Christian Frederik Carl Holm and Christen Købke is recorded. The recorded working language is Danish. Places of work recorded in the authority are Copenhagen. Work by Thorald Læssøe is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum, Fitzwilliam Museum and Statens Museum for Kunst.

• Name — Thorald Læssøe • Born — 25 June 1816 • Birthplace — Frederikshavn, Denmark • Died — 25 March 1878 (aged 61) • Place of death — Copenhagen, Denmark • Education — Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts • Children — 2 • Relatives — Frederik Læssøe (brother)

Læssøe was born in 1816 in Frederikshavn to Niels Frederik Læssøe, a customs inspector, and his second wife, Margrethe Juliane Signe Læssøe (Abrahamson). Læssøe was the brother of Army officer Frederik Læssøe, numismatist Ludvig Læssøe, and priest Kristian Frederik Læssøe. As a teenager, he decided to become an artist after initially planning to study civil service. Although he was primarily self-taught, Læssøe had periodically attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1834 to 1839, where he was a student of Christian Holm and briefly Christen Købke. He spent the following decades residing in various cities across Europe, such as Basel, Prague, and Rome. Læssøe belonged to the circle of Lorenz Frølich, Jens Adolf Jerichau, J.T. Lundbye, and P. C. Skovgaard but did not reach the same degree of their popularity. In 1857, Læssøe married Emy Francisca Erhardine Tidonia. After she died in 1863, he lived in Rome for a second time with his two children from 1866 to 1868. Læssøe died in 1878 in Copenhagen, aged 61.

• Illustration — Landscape near Rome with the Alban Hills in the distance, 1847 • Illustration — Part of Marble Square with the ruins of the unfinished Frederik's Church, 1838 • Illustration — Valløby Church on Zealand, 1839 • Illustration — View of the Terme di Caracalla in Rome, 1845 • Illustration — View towards the Roman Forum from the Colosseum, 1848