Axel Johansen, Harbour Scene Near Copenhagen

Axel Johansen, Harbour Scene Near CopenhagenA light filled impressionistic harbour scene by noteworthy Danish painter, Axel Johansen (1872 1938). The composition is skilfully balanced with the masts from each boat creating strong vertical lines that reflect across the water. Such a beautiful summertime palette that seems to bring a little warmth into the room with every glance. Johansen was considered to be one of the foremost Danish painters of his generation and exhibited regularly at the

1876) trained at the Munich Academy and all four of his siblings pursued creative endeavours

he was asked to exhibit his work internationally including a show in Rome

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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

Johan Pankraz Koeber (1796-1832)

Hygrell was a versatile and widely-exhibited painter who studied in Gothenburg and later at the Stockholm School of Art

Her delicate golden lorgnette (which is a pair of spectacles with a handle) is folded and held between her thumb and index finger

A fine pair of mid-19th-century portraits by German painter

It has a misty dreamlike quality often synonymous with many portraits from the period

We love the way that the foreground colours are muted and the trees are almost imperceptible

Carl August Gosch was a pupil at the academy in Berlin

which translates from Italian as ‘pity’ or ‘compassion’