Laurits Regner Tuxen CVO (9 December 1853 – 21 November 1927) was a Danish painter and sculptor specialising in figure painting.

In the 1880s and 1890s, he travelled widely painting portraits for Europe's royal families including Christian IX of Denmark, Queen Victoria and the Russian royalty.

Laurits Tuxen became the school's first director and Peder Severin Krøyer one of its teachers.

He subsequently purchased Madam Bendsen's house in Skagen in the north of Jutland, converting it into a stately summer residence.

Tuxen painted mainly landscapes in Skagen, but also portraits of European royal personalities, namely Christian IX of Denmark, Queen Victoria, Czar Nicolas II, etc.