Bolette Puggaard

[3] On 13 August 1816, she married the wealthy merchant Hans Puggaard (1788–1866) with whom she enjoyed a substantial degree of freedom, allowing her to develop her interest and proficiency in landscape painting.

When the Thorvaldsen museum was inaugurated, she put the French tricolour on the top of the building, claiming to be ready to defend this action even in front of the King if needed.

Her passion for democracy was inspired by her brother Johannes Dam Hage (1800-1837), a leading defendant of the abolition of absolutism in Denmark who killed himself after having been condemned to censorship for life.

Also her son in law Orla Lehmann, married to her daughter Maria, and later one of the main authors of the Danish liberal Constitution of 1848, had been jailed for his democratic ideas.

[7] Many of her descendants were reputed artists, such as the poet Helge Rode (1870-1937), the writer Jacob Paludan (1896-1975), the painter Oluf Hartmann (1879-1910), or the sculptor Rudolph Tegner (1873-1950).