The country house Abbéma was built in 1795 after the architect C. F. Hansen's design to the Batavian ambassador Abbéma on the banks of the Elbe. The country house was ready for habitation during the years 1796–1797. The house was sold in 1798 to the French emigrant C. l. C. Rainville. The country house was converted into a restaurant and the garden was laid out in terraces down to the river. The house was demolished in 1867 and a maritime school was built on the premises and the garden was laid out as a puplic park.

Friedrich Rosenberg is mentioned in Weilbach's dictionary of artists. The present painting is referred to (in Danish): “View of the Elbe, Altona, Rainville, with the now demolished Haus Abbéma, designed by C. F. Hansen.” He exhibited at Charlottenborg in 1826 and 1828.