Carl Milton Jensen, Forest Scenery With Chaffinches & Stream

Carl Milton Jensen, Forest Scenery With Chaffinches & StreamAn impressionistic early 20th century oil on canvas depicting a stream within a forest by Danish painter, Carl Milton Jensen (1855 1928). This fine evocative painting conjures up the sights and sounds of a dense woodland teeming with life. You can almost hear the stream as it cascades over the rocks by your feet with two nearby chaffinches adding their own light melody. Jensen trained at the Academy of Fine Arts and exhibited regularly at

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 17” x 22” / 43cm x 56cmYear of creation: c

Little is known about Axel Gøtze

Size including frame 11½” x 13⅔” / 29cm x 35cm

For a while

along with a floral bonnet decorated with roses

areas of paint loss and craquelure throughout

particularly in the drapery

A characterful mid-19th-century oil on canvas depicting a seated older lady with knitting needles and wool

The use of the stile seems to bring us closer to the scene - as if we could just hop over it and sit by the lake

A few areas in the darker pigments where the paint has bituminised and some scattered in-painting following its restoration

The portrait is housed within a 19th-century gilded frame with decorative inner and outer borders

Calisch’s works are housed in several museums including the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam where there’s also a self-portrait