Laurits Regner Tuxen: A Life in Portraiture and Light Early Life and Education Born on December 9, 1853, in Copenhagen, Denmark, Laurits Regner Tuxen came from a family with strong ties to the Danish navy. His father, Nicolai Elias Tuxen, was a naval officer and director of the Danish naval shipyard. His sister, Nicoline Tuxen, was also an artist specializing in still life and flower painting. From 1868 to 1872, Tuxen studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art alongside Peder Severin Krøyer, a fellow artist who would become closely associated with the Skagen Painters. He further hon…