Peter Raadsig

After his confirmation, he was enrolled at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

While there, he was awarded several silver medals for his portraits and historical images and earned a reputation as a diligent painter.

[4] Raadsig was occupied with topics from Danish history, especially as it was perceived in contemporary literature.

In 1850 Raadsig made the painting Ingolf tager Island i besiddelse, depicting Ingólfr Arnarson, the first Norse settler of Iceland, newly arrived on the site of what would become Reykjavík, commanding his high seat pillars to be erected.

[5] He was awarded De Neuhausenske Præmier by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in connection with his work Vildttyve i forhør hos en birkedommer (1857).