Louise Bonfils

The coast south of Helsingør with Kronborg Slot and Skt. Olai Kirke, 1882 Louise Marie Magdalene Bonfils (3 November 1856 - 28 March 1933) was a Danish painter, best-known for her seascapes despite a serious eye disease.

She was born in Frederiksberg to head-of-office (later director) of the Militære Underklasses Invalideforsørgelsen Carl Josef Julius Bonfils (1814–1901) and Elisabeth Juliane Louise née Soelberg (1815–1884). 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.

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