Louise Thomsen

Marie Louise Thomsen née Molbech (1823–1907) was a pioneering Danish photographer who ran a photographic business in Hellebæk in the north of Zealand from the early 1860s.

Many of the photographs she took in the area near her home have been preserved and are published in Jesper Godvin Hansen's Fotografen Louise Thomsen 1823–1907.

After matriculating from Frederiksborg lærde skole in Hillerød she became a private tutor for her cousin's children in Frederiksyndest near Fredensborg.

In 1862, the family moved to the house known as Skovhuset in Hellebæk where they spent the rest of their lives.

[3] In August 1864 and frequently thereafter the Helsingør Avis published an advertisement announcing that portraits would be taken in the former forester's house in Hellebæk.