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Jens Erik Carl Rasmussen (1841-1893)
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Jens Erik Carl Rasmussen (1841-1893)
Erik Röde discovers Greenland
signed and dated 'C. Rasmussen -/1875.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
54¼ x 88in. (137.7 x 223.5cm.)
Erik Röde (Eiríkr Thorvaldsson, 'Eric the Red') sailed with Vikings from Iceland in 986 to colonise and farm Greenland. He had spent the previous three years exploring the country: 'The name 'Greenland', which he coined for it, may have been a promotional stunt, but by this time the limited amount of cultivable land in Iceland was already occupied, and larger-scale emigration of several hundred Icelanders with Eirík was due mainly to land hunger....[the] flourishing Norse colonies in Greenland ceased to exist altogether some time before about 1500.' (R. Vaughan, The Arctic, A History, Stroud, 1994, pp.44-6.)
Rasmussen studied at the Copenhagen Academy (1862-1866) and went on to specialise in Greenland subjects. He drowned in 1893 en route from Greenland to Denmark.
Erik Röde discovers Greenland
signed and dated 'C. Rasmussen -/1875.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
54¼ x 88in. (137.7 x 223.5cm.)
Erik Röde (Eiríkr Thorvaldsson, 'Eric the Red') sailed with Vikings from Iceland in 986 to colonise and farm Greenland. He had spent the previous three years exploring the country: 'The name 'Greenland', which he coined for it, may have been a promotional stunt, but by this time the limited amount of cultivable land in Iceland was already occupied, and larger-scale emigration of several hundred Icelanders with Eirík was due mainly to land hunger....[the] flourishing Norse colonies in Greenland ceased to exist altogether some time before about 1500.' (R. Vaughan, The Arctic, A History, Stroud, 1994, pp.44-6.)
Rasmussen studied at the Copenhagen Academy (1862-1866) and went on to specialise in Greenland subjects. He drowned in 1893 en route from Greenland to Denmark.
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