Rasmus Andersen Holm, View Across Gavnø, Zealand

Rasmus Andersen Holm, View Across Gavnø, ZealandAn easy going landscape painting depicting a view across the peaceful island of Gavn in South Zealand, Denmark. The artist, Rasmus Andersen Holm (1781 1874) has picked a beautiful spot with the large trees on the left casting their long shadows towards the foot of the image. While, further on, a scattering a timber framed buildings help to guide our eye outwards the evenings sunlit sky. The work is signed dated in the lower right. Medium Oil on canvas

Oil on cardboard laid on canvas

Very presentable

You can almost feel the chill in the air as you cast your eyes downriver towards the bridge in the distance

We’ve written a blog article that explains a little more about this important Catalan luminary

But the real accomplishment here is Henrichsen’s sublime treatment of the light as it falls across the lake and illuminates the front of a cottage

Size including frame 13⅔” x 17¼” / 35cm x 44cm

He then continued on to Russia where he created a silhouette of Rasputin that brought him much acclaim

Size including frame 11” x 13” / 28cm x 33cm

The sitter bears a striking resemblance to the artist’s sister

Allegre studied at the School of Fine Arts in Marseille and often painted light-filled views along the French Riviera

an old gasworks is gently illuminated under a purple sky - the clouds are breaking at first light

A fine 17th-century portrait of an older lady wearing a plain white collar with lace edging