Victor Forssell, River Landscape With Cottages

Victor Forssell, River Landscape With CottagesThis spirited 19th century oil painting by Swedish artist Victor Forssell (1846 1931) depicts a river landscape with cottages and figure. Painted in 1873, this sublime piece typifies the majestic handling of a celebrated artist with the world at his feet. Forssell was just 27 and already recognised by his peers as a prodigy. In a letter to the artist Carl Larsson, AM Lindstrm proclaimed that he had not yet seen any landscape here that could be

Medium: Oil on boardOverall size: 11” x 15½” / 28cm x 39cmYear of creation: c

and Moscow

Von Ernst lived in Dusseldorf and is known to have exhibited at the Berlin Academy

a large red building

There’s certainly an element of modesty

Modest compared to previous decades

there’s nothing to ground the fruit

echoing nature’s naturalistic beauty without embellishment

A press interview with Ridley in 1933 explained:

This early 20th-century oil painting by Swedish artist Gunnar Lampa (1873-1952) depicts Riddarholmen

Blanc and was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur in 1933

Smartly attired yet slightly dishevelled