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Yes and no! I doubt whether the Danish expatriate community in Rio de Janeiro in the 1860s was very large. Although RJ was of course the capital - and there was undoubtedly a diplomatic/consular presence there - it is likely that Danes would indeed be thinly spread through the RJ community - a trader here, an engineer there, a teacher here a shipmaster there etc. There was no sizeable community comparable to the long-established British with extensive role in import/export and as investors in Brazil.
Unlike some other Europeans, I do not think that there had been much emigration of Danes to found agriculture-based colonies anywhere in Brazil (cf the Germans, Russians, Italians - and in 1866/7, Americans). In any case these tended to provide for their own needs far from the capital or other port cities.
Even by the late 1860s there were few protestant churches in Brazil; in RJ the British church had been established under treaty privileges some fifty or so years earlier, as head the burial ground at Gamboa (there were others also in Pará, Pernambuco, Bahia and elsewhere). Although there may have been a Lutheran church in RJ by 1866, I have never heard of another protestant burial ground at that time. All the burial registers I have seen have a smattering of Scandinavian and Germanic names and nationalities.
That said, a visiting seaman may not have received a religious funeral/burial at all. However, particularly if if it was a Danish ship, I would expect the Danish consul to have been involved in the local arrangements and to have reported the death back to Copenhagen. It may be that there are surviving consular records the in Danish national archives or elsewhere.
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