Robert Panitzsch, Living Room Interior With Mother & Child

Robert Panitzsch, Living Room Interior With Mother & ChildThis early 20th century interior scene by Robert Panitzsch (1879 1949) celebrates a loving moment within a spacious well kept interior. Daylight bursts through a tall window where a mother reads quietly. Her daughter looks intently on, paying close attention to the tale unfolding. Around them, a variety of period furniture and two colourful artworks. This is the artists home a place he treasured and painted often. Robert Panitzsch produced numerous

Every year thousands of pilgrims travel here to visit the Grotto of Massabielle where

“The [former] house and garden of Johan de Witt on den Kneuterdijk

Provenance: Germany

A late 19th-century portrait of a handsome bearded gentleman dressed in his Sunday best by German artist

A mid-20th-century three quarter length portrait of a seated lady by Finnish-Swedish artist

Both portraits are held within period gilt frames with extensive corner decoration

It’s a middle ground between worlds

He had a skill for romanticising everyday fleeting moments that would otherwise pass us by

Peter's Basilica

Several of his works are housed in the museums at Brussels and Antwerp

waistcoat and necktie

as Wykeham Archer explains