Monday, September 30, 2024

Charles Euphrasie Kuwasseg
(1833 - 1904)
 
Charles Euphrasie Kuwasseg was a French painter of the 19th century. He essentially specialized in landscape paintings - particularly the coastal landscapes of Brittany and Normandy. His work is represented in museums in Montreal, Rouen, Pontoise, Digne and La Rochelle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kuwasseg



Au bord du fleuve
1883
Oil on panel
23 x 41 cm
Private collection (Sold by Christie’s on 21 Jun 2011)

Sunday, September 29, 2024

 Johannes Hilverdink
(1813 - 1902)
 
The Dutch artist Johannes Hilverdink was born in 1813 in Groningen. He was a watercolorist, lithographer, painter, draftsman, pastelist and graphic artist. He was the son of the actors Jacobus Hilverdink (1783-1828) and Anna Maria Corver. His mother was a granddaughter of the famous actor Marten Corver. Hilverdink studied under Jan Willem Pieneman and Jean Augustin Daiwaille at the Art Academy in Amsterdam. Hilverdink painted in the style of the Romantic School. His genre was landscapes and seascapes. He also painted church interiors and city views. He traveled abroad to Belgium, Germany, England, France and Greenland. Hilverdink was a member of the “Arti et Amicitiae” and a member of the Royal Academy in Amsterdam.
Hilverdink’s work is in the collections of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Boymans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam and the Teylers Museum in Haarlem.
 
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Hilverdink
 

Sailing vessels near a harbour entrance
Oil on panel
39,3 x 61,5
Private collection
https://www.simonis-buunk.com/artwork/johannes-hilverdink-painting-sailing-vessels-near-a-harbour-entrance/25870/


Saturday, September 28, 2024

Salomon van Ruysdael
(1602 - 1670)
 
Salomon van Ruysdael was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. He was the uncle of Jacob van Ruisdael.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomon_van_Ruysdael



An estuary with a ferry and other vessels, a church and windmill beyond
Oil on panel
Around 1650
36.1 x 32.8 cm
Private collection (Sold by Christie’s on 5 Jul 2018)
https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-salomon-van-ruysdael-an-estuary-with-a-6152924/

Friday, September 27, 2024

Thomas Baker
(1809 - 1864)
 
Thomas Baker was a Midlands landscape painter and watercolourist often known as "Baker of Leamington" or "Landscape Baker".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Baker_(artist)


Sunset, View of Warwick Castle
1858
Oil on canvas
23 x 43 cm
Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum

Thursday, September 26, 2024

Vilhelm Kyhn
(1819 - 1903)
 
Peter Vilhelm Carl Kyhn was a Danish landscape painter who belonged to the generation of national romantic painters immediately after the Danish Golden Age and before the Modern Breakthrough. Even though he outlived many of his artistic peers by several decades, he remained a traditionalist and expressed strong criticism of many of the new trends in the painting of his day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhelm_Kyhn


En sommerdag. Motiv fra Horneland ved Fåborg 
(A summer day. Motif from Horneland near Fåborg)
1869
Oil on canvas
149,5 x 200 cm
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
https://open.smk.dk/artwork/image/KMS866

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Jan Willem van Borselen
(1825 - 1892)
 
Jan Willem van Borselen was a Dutch landscape painter, often associated with the Hague School. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Willem_van_Borselen
 

Towers in a Dutch polder landscape
1872
oil on canvas
65.3 x 100.2 cm
Private collection
 
It's not really clear in the picture but the two people near the board of the river are towing the boat.



Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Adriaen van de Velde
(1636 - 1672)
 
Adriaen van de Velde was a Dutch painter, draughtsman and print artist. His favorite subjects were landscapes with animals and genre scenes. He also painted beaches, dunes, forests, winter scenes, portraits in landscapes, as well as mythological and biblical scenes. He belongs to a group of painters referred to as the Dutch Italianate painters, who combined Dutch agricultural landscapes with mythological or Arcadian scenes in Italian settings. His paintings are characterised by their delicate, careful composition and his mastery of lighting effects as well as the human figure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriaen_van_de_Velde

A Landscape with a Farm by a Stream
1661
Oil on canvas
32,5 x 35,4 cm
National Gallery, London
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/adriaen-van-de-velde-a-landscape-with-a-farm-by-a-stream

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