page_title: Hans Puggaard
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Hans Puggaard / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: Dansk: hos Puggaard i via Avignonese 8. februar 1836- Info
context_page_description: Hans Puggaard was a Danish merchant and shipowner who founded H. Puggaard & Co. in 1813. The company became a leading wholesaler of grain and was also active in the market for import of colonial goods such as coffee and especially sugar.
  Puggaard's wife, Bolette Puggaard née Hage, a daughter of Christopher Friedenreich Hage, was a painter. The couple supported many of the artists of the Danish Golden Age. A daughter married Orla Lehmann.
context_section_description: Puggaard married Bolette Cathrine Frederikke Hage on 13 August 1816 in Stege Church. They had three children, the sons Christoffer Rudolph Puggaard (1818-1883) and Hans Christopher Wilhelm Puggar (1823-1864) and the daughter Annette Maria Puggaard (1821-1849).
  Hans and Bolette Puggaard lived at Store Kongensgade 72 from 1930. Puggaard has also lived in the listed properties at Kronprinsessegade 48 (1816–1818), Nyhavn 31 (1826), Nyhavn 43 (1827–1829) as well as in a now demolished building at Store Kongensgade 63 (1916 and 1819–1823) and Dronningens Tværgade 9 (1824–1825). In 1831, Puggaard purchased Skovgården at Ordrup. for use as a summer retreat. The building was moved when Skovgårdsskolen was built in the 1960s but has now been listed.
   
  Bolette Puggaard was interested in the arts and herself a painter. Their homes in Copenhagen and Ordrup were frequented by many of the leading artists of the time, Bertel Thorvaldsen, C. W. Eckersberg, Wilhelm Marstrand and Thorvald Bindesbøll.
  The Puggaard family visited Rome several times in the 1830s, for instance in 1835-36. . Their Roman residence was situated in Via degli Avignonesein, close to  Piazza Barberini and Thorvaldsen's studio. The Puggaard's became known for their soirées. Puggaard was a member of the committee that was set up in connection with the establishment of Thorvaldsens Museum.
  When one of their daughters married Orla Lehmann their home also became a meeting place for the inner circle of the National Liberal movement. Puggaard had political interests and was a member of Folketinget from 1854 to 1958 and again  1861 to 1864, and of Landstinget in 1864-66.
  Puggaard died on 8 April 1866 and is buried in the Cemetery of Holmen.
caption: Carnival at the Puggaard family's residence in Rome, 1836
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