Jens Erik Carl Rasmussen (31 August 1841 – 1 October 1893) was a Danish painter best known for his marine art and scenes of Greenland. Biography. Rasmussen was born at Ærøskøbing in Ærø, Denmark. He was the son of Johan Aranth Rasmussen and Caroline Sophie Kaasden. . He was the eldest of eleven children born to a master tailor who later became City Treasurer. At fifteen, he went to Copenhagen to learn the hosiery trade and completed his training in 1861. While there, however, he was attracted to the art works he saw and took drawing lessons with the architects Hans J. Holm and C. V. Nielsen.
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Jens Erik Carl Rasmussen (31 August 1841 – 1 October 1893) was a Danish painter best known for his marine art and scenes of Greenland. Biography. Rasmussen was born at Ærøskøbing in Ærø, Denmark. He was the son of Johan Aranth Rasmussen and Caroline Sophie Kaasden. . He was the eldest of eleven children born to a master tailor who later became City Treasurer. At fifteen, he went to Copenhagen to learn the hosiery trade and completed his training in 1861. While there, however, he was attracted to the art works he saw and took drawing lessons with the architects Hans J. Holm and C. V. Nielsen.
