Carl Frederik Emanuel Larsen, known as Emanuel Larsen (Copenhagen, 1823-Copenhagen, 1859), was a Danish painter who specialized in marine subjects. He was admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in January 1839, where he studied under Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg and Frederik Theodor Kloss. Under Eckersberg he turned to marine painting, the genre in which he worked for the rest of his brief career.
In 1845 he exhibited Morgen ved Sjællands Kyst, which was bought by the Statens Museum for Kunst. That same year he sailed on a naval ship to the Faroe Islands and Iceland. From 1852 to 1854 he travelled to England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Paris and the French Mediterranean coast. In 1851 he was awarded the Neuhausen Prize for Udsigt fra Langelinie mod Nyholm med Mastekranen. Morgenbelysning.
Despite his interest in Dutch marine art, he was probably the Danish artist least influenced by foreign works. The influential critic Christian Jürgensen Thomsen praised his fresh, open view of life at sea and noted that his ships seemed truly to move. Larsen died in September 1859 after a short illness.
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Studied with
- Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg 1783–1853
- Frederik Theodor Kloss 1802–1876