Danish Coastal Landscape With Cottages

Danish Coastal Landscape With CottagesA peaceful impressionistic rural view of several farm buildings situated on the Danish coast. Amid a subtle array of Autumnal tones, the red tiled roof of a stone cottage draws your eye, while a splash of royal blue gives depth to the composition. The painting appears to be housed within its original frame and it's signed illegibly in the lower right. Medium Oil on canvas Size including frame 29 x 24 74cm x 61cm Year of creation 1909 Provenance

One is dated in the lower left and all three are framed

We particularly love the flashes of green and red to highlight the brightly coloured shop fronts

Canvases relined

A fine mid-19th-century portrait of Käthe Holm Née Ahlefeldt wearing a green dress

which gives the painting a ‘lost in time’ quality

first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1802 and was generally known as a painter of theatrical subjects

This quirky building (completed around 1844) had a central octagonal stairwell hall with a cantilevered stair - so it was far from the norm

such as Cézanne

During the 1870s

He’s clad in silks with a black cloak contrasting against an impressive red and white shirt

Perhaps you may be able to discover the young lady’s name

The portrait is housed within an ornate gilded frame with swept corners and elaborate foliate ornamentation