Edvard Petersen (4 February 1841 – 5 December 1911) was a Danish painter.

[1] From 1851 he attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

[2] He was a close friend of fellow painter Theodor Philipsen and together they went on several travels, including two stays in Italy between 1875 and 1880 and a visit to France.

[3] The friendship did not seem to influence Petersen's rather conservative style of painting and his works from the times abroad are generally traditional paintings of local life.

The sculptor Vilhelm Bissen moulded the birds and the fountain was inaugurated in 1904.