Carsten Henrichsen, Coastal Landscape With Mother & Child

Carsten Henrichsen, Coastal Landscape With Mother & ChildA fine 19th century landscape painting depicting a woman and child walking along a coastal track under a vast sky. The artist, Carsten Henrichsen (1824 1897) has captured the wind swept scenery perfectly and the whole composition seems to be leaning left. The bush on the right of the couple appears to have grown diagonally with the wind whipping across the open landscape. Henrichsen trained at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen and often painted views

which is housed at St

But the years have been a little unkind leaving it flaking and worn

Canvases relined

which is perhaps a tether bar

Christian Berthelsen (1839-1909)

Medium: Oil on panelOverall size: 19½” x 23” / 50cm x 59cmYear of creation: 1881Provenance: DenmarkCondition: Areas of craquelure and one minor paint loss on the right

Antoni Kierpal (1898-1960)

The canvas is in good shape and the paint layer is stable under varnish

perhaps ‘Pluis’

Her hair is styled into a coiffure and she wears a large diamond brooch that sparkles with light

A charming early 19th-century miniature portrait of a doe-eyed lady wearing a beautiful dress with short puffed sleeves and a necklace

Perhaps a character from a Dickensian play