Carl Johan Neumann (1833 - 1891) belonged to the second generation of Danish Golden Age painters trained under Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. While he traveled extensively, including to Turkey, Egypt, and Syria, he found inspiration for his landscape and marine paintings from his native land, particularly the coastline and villages along the northern end of the Jutland peninsula.

S/S Kronprinsesse Louise was a Danish railway ferry built in 1891 at Helsingør Skibsværft og Maskinbyggeri for DSB for traffic between Helsingør and Helsingborg.

She could carry 850 passengers and the track on deck had room for six railway carriages and a maximum weight of 115 tonnes. Passengers travelling in first and second class had access to a saloon with plush upholstered furniture in the front part of the ship, and on the aft deck there was a simpler saloon for those travelling in third class, as well as benches on the carriage deck.