Christian Albrecht Jensen

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. ==Time abroad==

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. ==Success and criticism==

Back in Copenhagen in the winter of 1822/23, the portrait scene was dominated by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg's sober, Neoclassical style, yet Jensen's more psychological portraits won immediate popularity. Other portrayed scientists included the astronomer Wilhelm von Struve. ==Late life==

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. ==Gallery==

File:Cecilie Lønborg (1799-1882).jpg|Cecilie Lønborg, 1819 File:Cathrine Jensen, født Lorenzen, kunstnerens hustru.jpg|Cathrine Jensen (the artist's wife), 1825 File:Birgitte Sobotker Hohlenberg.jpg|Birgitte Sobotker Hohlenberg, 1826 File:Adam Oehlenschlaeger (1825 painting).jpg|Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, 1832 File:Maleren C.W. Eckersberg. (1832).jpg|Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1832 File:C.A. Jensen 1836 - HC Andersen.jpg|Hans Christian Andersen, 1836 File:N-f-s-grundtvig-portræt.jpg|N. F. S. Grundtvig, 1843 File:William Martin Leake by Christian Albrecht Jensen.jpg|William Martin Leake, National Portrait Gallery, London, 1838 File:Christian Albrecht Jensen 001.jpg|Andreas Gottlob Rudelbach, 1858 ==See also==