Jørgen von Cappelen Knudtzon

Jørgen von Cappelen Knudtzon (28 April 1784 – 29 July 1854) was a Norwegian businessman and patron of the arts.

Born in Trondheim to a prosperous mercantile family of German extraction, he travelled to Hamburg, Germany to study commerce.

With the family firm's trade ships Knudtzon often travelled to foreign destinations in Southeast Asia.

At one occasion the ship wrecked; in the subsequent tumult he made friends with the Scot Alexander Baillie, with whom he would later travel around Europe.

[1] His father was born in Bredstedt, North Frisia (now part of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein) and had established himself as a leading businessman in Trondheim.