Emma Meyer, Interior With Two Women

Emma Meyer, Interior With Two WomenThis late 19th century oil painting by Danish artist Emma Meyer (1859 1921) depicts a tastefully decorated interior with two women one reading by a window, the other exploring a cabinet. Meyer was an accomplished painter of scenes and naturalistic landscapes. The composition cleverly splits the view into two distinct elements to create added interest. Were standing in, perhaps, the parlour, where an older lady sits to read by a gently lit window. A

Each captured with delicacy to convey a perfect notion of Victorian family bliss

and is known to have exhibited at the illustrious Paris salon in 1864

Clare was an accomplished painter of still lifes

The painting is signed/dated in the lower left and housed within a handsome gilded frame with decorative borders

Painted in around 1820

Francisco de Zurbarán’s (1598-1664) ‘Christ the Saviour Blessing’

Such an interesting piece

in another work

the girls are attired in the latest fashion

Note the bravado - chest puffed outwards

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This exquisite late-19th-century watercolour by British artist Jane Sophia Robson (1846-1907) depicts a glass vase of flowers and fruit with insects and snail