[2] Together with two colleagues, Adolph Kittendorff and Karl Muller, he won 2,000 Danish rigsdaler in the lottery.

They intended to invest the money in setting up their own company and thought of buying the Berlin Brothers' lithographic institute (founded 1840).

While Kittendorff mainly devoted himself to reproducing artistic works, Tegner's specialty was portrait lithography.

With the support of the Reiersen Foundation, he had sought further education in Berlin, Dresden and Paris, and his ability to make a likeness, his careful if somewhat dry execution made his works very popular.

[1] He married secondly on 31 October 1863 in the Garrison Church to Athalia Frederikke Henriette Thaae (1832–1888), widow of the luithographer Andreas Christoffer Møller Hansen (1823– 62).

Her parents were Icelandic merchant David Christian Frederik Thaae (1802–71) and Christine Marie Biermann (1802–80).