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The painting illustrates a battle in the Great Northern War in 1716, when a Swedish transport fleet was destroyed by a Danish squadron led by Peter Wessel Tordenskjold, at Dynekilen. Mølsted made a drawing of the same scene, depicted in Rikard Magnussen: <i>Chr. Mølsted</i> in <i>Danske Kunstnere</i>, 1935 page 67.</div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Christian_M%C3%B8lsted" class="extiw" title="w:en:Christian Mølsted"><span title="Danish painter (1862-1930)">Christian Mølsted</span></a>
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