Vilhelm Arnesen, Coastal View With Beach & Lighthouse

Vilhelm Arnesen, Coastal View With Beach & LighthouseThis spirited early 20th century oil painting by Danish artist Vilhelm Arnesen (1865 1948) depicts a coastal view with a beach and distant lighthouse. Arnesen was a celebrated painter of maritime subjects. Perpetual breakers topple across kelp covered sand under low lying clouds in a sweep of pink. A lighthouse punctures the skyline. Note how the ingenious composition creates a diagonal from the bottom left towards the right middle, thus adding

Hailing from Exeter in Devon

humility and reticence

Boutry was primarily known as a sculptor having created many fine bronzes

this included bonnets decorated with ribbons and bows that were worn towards the back of the head

There’s an understated beauty to this subtle Danish painting and it captures a glimpse into everyday rural life

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and then I abroad (my wife being gone to Hales’s about drawing her hand new in her picture)

three nails (from the cross*)

My Dear Mr Wickham

A key figure in the evolution of misty Italianate landscapes was Baroque French artist

The water is tranquil and the silence conspicious

somewhat mystical