18th-Century Dutch School Idealised Landscape With Resting Figures

18th-Century Dutch School Idealised Landscape With Resting FiguresA fine 18th century oil on canvas depicting two figures resting in an idealised rural landscape with setting sun. The artist has drawn their inspiration from the imagined landscapes of classical painters, such as Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin. Artists working in this manner would combine elements from their own natural world with fictional components from antiquity. Often theyd incorporate imagined ruins in a classical style as we can see towards

it’s rare to find Mary unaccompanied at the foot of the cross as usually there are other figures such as a disciple or Mary Magdalene

An early 19th-century portrait of the English composer and musician

Morten Thrane Brünnich (1805-1861)

Foss loved this area and he’s captured the effects of light so beautifully as it illuminates the lake and three grazing sheep

To this day

“It is true that I am a bit occupied by my hairstyle

The portrait is signed/dated in the lower left and housed in a period frame with coved sides and a decorative inner border

Henrichsen trained at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen and often painted views along the Danish coastline

An attractive impressionistic French landscape painting depicting a view across a field towards distant trees

so it’s interesting to consider why these were painted so far apart

But good enough to hang without a problem

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