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Christian Albrecht Jensen

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353: 42: 468: 383: 400: 417: 451: 284: 368: 434: 211: 276:'s sober, Neoclassical style, yet Jensen's more psychological portraits won immediate popularity. Up through the 1820s, he portrayed a large number of prominent members of Danish society but in spite of his commercial success he received little appreciation from art critics or from the establishment at the Academy and when a professorial chair became vacant after 333:
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
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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
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in the first half of the 19th century. 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
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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.
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After 1830, commissions dwindled and he experienced financial difficulties. In response, he started collaborating with the historical collections at
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from that series remains the most famous portrait of the mathematician. Other portrayed scientists included the astronomer
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During his years in Rome, Jensen painted small, informal portraits of many of his fellow artists, including the writer
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The 1840s brought a further decline in orders, prompted by his political views which were not in line with the
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After leaving Rome, he made an unsuccessful attempt to establish himself as a portrait painter in
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Back in Copenhagen in the winter of 1822/23, the portrait scene was dominated by
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From 1837, he increasingly looked to other countries for customers. By the
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criticized his style, finding his paintings 'unfinished'.
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portrayed during Jensen's stay in Rome, 1818–20
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who visited Rome from 1818 to 1819, and the sculptor
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C. A. Jensen

Bredstedt
Duchy of Schleswig
Copenhagen
Denmark
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Danish Golden Age
portrait painter
Golden Age of Danish Painting
Hans Christian Andersen
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hans Christian Ørsted
N. F. S. Grundtvig
Niels Lauritz Høyen
Bredstedt
Nordfriesland
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Christian August Lorentzen
Academy of Fine Arts

H. E. Freund
Rome
Vienna
Venice
Bologna
Florence
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bernhard Severin Ingemann

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