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Laurits Regner Tuxen
(1853-1927)
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Laurits Regner Tuxen (1853-1927) is a listed Danish artist. He studied at Kunstakademiet (The Academy of Fine Arts) in Copenhagen and was a student of Lèon Bonnat in Paris.

He exhibited widely. Not only in Denmark but also in Europe, The U.S. and Australia. The most important being Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), The Salon (Paris), Erste internat. Kunstausst. (Vienna, Düsseldorf and Berlin), Victorian Exhibition (London), The 1890 Paris World Exhibition, The 1893 Columbian Exhibition in Paris, Chicago), Grosse Berliner (Berlin), Victorian Gold Jub. (Sydney, Melbourne), Espo. Internat. (Rome, Barcelona), Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling (The Artists' Fall Exhibition, Denmark) and Kunstnerforeningen af 18 November (The Artists' Society of November 18th).

Tuxen was the founder of Modelskolen (The Model School) and Kunstnernes Studieskole (The Artists' Study School) where he also worked as a teacher. Later he became one of the jurors at the World Exhibitions in Paris and Rome and in the years 1920-23 he was the vice director at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen where he also taught and was a member of the board.

Laurits Tuxen knew already as a child that he wanted to be a painter. He started out as a marine painter but his teachers at The Academy encouraged him to paint figures and portraits. In 1883 he painted the royal Danish family which was the beginning of his international career. Queen Victoria also ordered a family portrait and she was so delighted with the result that she hired Tuxen as court painter. He travelled all over Europe to paint the royal families.

n 1901 Tuxen got married for the second time and returned to Denmark where he bought an old farm in Skagen. He continued painting portraits but his favoured motif was the beautiful landscape around Skagen and in 1908 he founded the Skagen Museum. Laurits Tuxen's remarkable talent and coloristic powers made him one of his generations most acclaimed artists.

A Laurits Tuxen painting "The Anniversary Dinner at Adelaide" sold for $85,000 at Sotheby's, New York in May 1997.