Christen Dalsgaard (30 October 1824 – 11 February 1907) was a Danish painter, a late student of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg.

In the spring of 1841 Niels Rademacher, a visiting landscape painter, encouraged the young artist and convinced his parents of their son's talent.

Home during the summer and holidays, he busied himself by filling sketchbooks with studies of the local landscape, costumes, and way of life.

Dalsgaard was a loyal follower of Høyen's artistic ideals, and forwent the customary journey to Italy, choosing rather to concentrate on themes closer to home.

In March 1846 he began studying at the Academy's model school under professors Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, J. L. Lund and Martinus Rørbye.

The painting, created only six years after the missionaries' arrival in Denmark, is set in the shadowed interior of a provincial cottage.

It is a study of contemporary daily life, carefully depicting the interior and costumes of the people in detail.

Their circle of social acquaintances included Constantin Hansen, Niels Lauritz Høyen, Wilhelm Marstrand, P.C.

In 1890 he finished the first of twenty-one small Bible pictures, a project which he continued to work on for the next ten years.

He paid great attention to details – folk costumes, the manners and habits of the people, and architecture and landscape.