Maurice Wiliquet, Farmhouse With Cart, Trees & Church

Maurice Wiliquet, Farmhouse With Cart, Trees & ChurchA picturesque oil on canvas depicting a farm building and cart before a small church. The artist, Maurice Wiliquet (1913 1991) hailed from Neerlinter in Belgium and studied at the Academy of Saint Josse ten Node under Henri Ottevaere. He was a proponent of plein air painting and many of his works feature the beautiful Sonian Forest near Brussels. During the 1960s, he was asked to exhibit his work internationally including a show in Rome. Housed within

Some light craquelure

Her right arm is resting on a table with several red books

Frederik (1823-1910) was an accomplished painter - well admired for his idealised rural scenes that romanticised the working classes

Justus Evald Lundegård (1860-1924)

It’s signed in the lower right and housed within a gilded foliate frame

A fine late 19th-century oil on panel depicting a woman walking along a countryside track towards a rustic old building

we can touch them up with gilt cream to cover the losses

A freshly boiled pot is placed on the table as the couple park down for their daily routine

Both artists adopted a romantic approach to landscape painting that was driven by their love for Danish rural life

while ahead of them

Size 26½” x 37” / 67cm x 94cm

We love the way she’s peering to one side - perhaps a little awkwardly