Thorald Læssøe

Thorald Læssøe (25 June 1816 – 25 March 1878) was a Danish landscape painter active during the Danish Golden Age. Several of his paintings are owned by the National Gallery of Denmark.

Biography Læssøe was born in 1816 in Frederikshavn to Niels Frederik Læssøe, a customs inspector, and his second wife, Margrethe Juliane Signe Læssøe . Læssøe was the brother of Army officer Frederik Læssøe, numismatist , and priest Kristian Frederik Læssøe. As a teenager, he decided to become an artist after initially planning to study civil service.

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.

Selected works