The World's Columbian Exposition
Chicago. U.S.A. 1893

4 soon felt that the small town did not yield suffi- cient means for his activity. The assistance he required in artistic as well as in technical respects was not to be had there. So he decided to leave for the capital, and in 1856 he established himself at Copenhagen where he at once proceeded to give to art the greatest possible influence on his works. And his endeavors met with a great success, understanding, as he did, how to associate with his work artists like Messrs. C. Peters and H. Olrik. His produc- tions attracted the attention of connoisseurs in Den- mark and abroad, and were in great demand on account of the workmanship shown in their execu- tion and their purity of taste which often made them the object of notices in foreign periodicals; of which The- Art Journal published in London may be named in particular. A speciality which has also attracted general attention to Mr. Christesen’s Establishment, even at international expositions, is its reproductions of ornaments from originals at the Museum of Old Northern Antiquities, and also its copies of