Gustav Vermehren, Coastal View With Beach

Gustav Vermehren, Coastal View With BeachThis early 20th century oil painting by Danish artist Gustav Vermehren (1863 1931) depicts a coastal view with substantial rocks, beach and pools. Vermehren was born into a creative family and destined to become an artist. His father, Frederik (1823 1910) was an accomplished painter, well admired for his idealised rural scenes, and taught both his sons to draw. Soon, Gustav enrolled at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, where he would later become

Josef Huber-Feldkirch trained under church painter Franz Plattner and later studied at the Munich Art Academy

perhaps a distant ancestor

Year of creation: 1929

Netherlands

735 achieved for ‘Drève à Overyssche’ at an auction in Belgium in 1996

" and "Gravé d'après le Tableau Original de Gabriel Metzu"

The portrait is housed within a highly decorative carved and gilded foliate frame - a work of art in itself

On either side

The National Gallery of Denmark acquired his ‘Jægersborg Dyrehave’

Overall size: 36½” x 45½” / 93cm x 116cm

He painted this scene seven years after Harriette’s sudden death so perhaps the energy

he enrolled at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen