Gudmund Stenersen, River Landscape

Gudmund Stenersen, River LandscapeThis early 20th century oil on canvas by Danish artist Gudmund Stenersen (1863 1934) depicts a tranquil river landscape. Tucked into a verdant valley rich with luscious green tones, the shimmering form of a quiet river disappears between trees. The water described with short impressionistic marks to capture reflections that flicker. This was Stenersens Norway, a place he loved a far cry from the busy ateliers of Paris, where hed trained some years

Overall size: 41” x 27” / 104cm x 69cm

Here he uses colour intelligently to emphasise the figure against the natural tones of the background

1931) depicts a row of period houses on Dorp Street

Some minor paint losses

including roses

When her parents commissioned this portrait in around 1900

Year of creation: 1907

With exquisitely controlled brushwork

This early 17th-century portrait depicts a lady wearing an intriguing outfit consisting of a red dress

As if she could leap from the page and dance

the ‘Liereman painters’ were obsessed with nature in its truest sense - without embellishment or fictional flourishes

Rodde specialised in picturesque landscapes that celebrated an idealised vision of rural life