Mads Alstrup

For 16 years, he produced an enormous number of daguerreotypes, in Copenhagen and the provinces, before his business suffered from the financial crisis of 1857.

Born in Viborg and trained as a goldsmith, Alstrup initially had a business in Randers in Jutland.

In the summer of 1842, he moved to Copenhagen and set up a daguerreotype studio behind the Hercules Pavilion in the Rosenborg Gardens.

[1] From 1843 to 1848, he travelled around Denmark, spending a few days or weeks in different towns where he set up temporary studios.

In 1849, he finally settled in Copenhagen, opening a studio at a central location on Østergade near Kongens Nytorv.