The Royal Coat of Arms had a design by Eilif Peterssen made in 1905, in which the design of the lion is somewhat more naturalistic than in the State Coat of Arms.
In 1896 he went to Arques-la-Bataille in Normandy, where he painted several landscapes, and from France he went together with his family to Rome in 1897.
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Inspired by Symbolist and Pre-Raphaelite art Peterssen painted a series of pictures with motifs from a mediaeval French legend, Gujamar's Song (1905-1907) for the publisher William Nygaard, and four years later another series of paintings based on a Norwegian folk song, Rikeball and the Proud Gudbjørg (1911) for the shipping magnate Jørgen B. Stang.
Painted by Eilif Peterssen in 1892: An evening at the Norwegian Society (''En aften i Det norske Selskab''). The man with the raised glass in the foreground is Johan Herman Wessel | Eilif Peterssen |