Mads Alstrup

Mads Alstrup (1808-1876) was the first Danish portrait photographer with his own studio.

From the opening of his studio in 1842, until he left the country in 1858, he produced an estimated 33,000 daguerreotypes in the Copenhagen area, before his business suffered beginning in 1857. He moved to Sweden in 1858 and continued to take portraits there until he died in 1876. He is considered one of the pioneers of photography in Denmark.