Ludvig August Smith

Ludvig August Smith (22 November 1820 – 12 November 1906) was a Danish painter, specialising in genre painting but also producing portraits and history paintings.

[1] Born in Copenhagen, he was the son of Morten Peter Smith (1776-1835) and Lene Dorothea (nee Scheel; 1780-1853).

His first exhibition of a work, A Family Scene, came in 1839.

His genre works included Supplicants (1853), bought by the Kunstforeningen.

Particularly popular was his A Copenhagen Family (1861), popularised via a lithograph copy.

Interior with mother and daughter by the window by Ludvig August Smith, 1853, Nationalmuseum