Peder Mørk Mønsted (10 December 1859 – 20 June 1941) was a Danish realist painter.

At an early age, he began receiving painting lessons at the art school in Aarhus.

From 1875 to 1879, studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts with Niels Simonsen and Julius Exner.

In 1882, he spent some time in Rome and Capri then, the following year, visited Paris, where he worked in the studios of William Adolphe Bouguereau.

Three years later, he travelled to Greece, where he was a guest of King George I who had been born a Danish prince.