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| Keywords: Eckersberg, CW - Kristus i Emmaus - 1833.jpg Artwork en Jesus in Emmaus This painting was part of a request from the amtmand bailiff of the western province of Iceland Bjarni Thorsteinsson for bells and an altar-piece for the church of Bjarnarhöfn sent December 19 1829 Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg was chosen as painter but his first proposal from June 1831 was rejected for being too costly After some deliberations the Danish king Frederik approved an altar-piece at the same price in September 1832 and Eckersberg finished it in the spring of 1833 A new church was built in 1857 and a story evolved around the altar-piece making it a work of a Dutch master from the Rembrandt school around 1640 brought to Iceland in the 17th century by Dutch sailors A good story - but just a story 1833 oil wood Bjarnarhöfn church Snæfellsnes accession number place of creation place of discovery object history exhibition history credit line Kasper Monrad Eckersberg page 140 150 <br>Emil Hannover Maleren C W Eckersberg page 384 <br>https //aegirjoh wordpress com/2015/06/14/364/ aegirjoh wordpress com<br>http //www mbl is/greinasafn/grein/1121194/ Example of the myth in mbl is December 24 2006 Scanned from old book PD-old-100-1923 Religious paintings by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg 1833 1833 paintings Lutheran churches in Iceland Bjarnarhöfn | ||||
