Peder Knudsen, Meadow Landscape With Stream & Distant Sea View

Peder Knudsen, Meadow Landscape With Stream & Distant Sea ViewThis sprightly early 20th century oil painting by Danish artist Peder Knudsen (1868 1944) depicts a stream cutting through a meadow, with a distant glimpse of the sea. Into the first throws of summer, the flora lively and established the stream shallow, narrow and crisp. Knudsen loved it here, perhaps in Bornholm, where he returned to paint often during the 1920s. He's captured the view with careful attention to each element. The stream is the star,

while his wife remains at home and occasionally mingles within the realms of high society

Edward Williams died of a broken heart

a large document spans the width of an oak table

25 January 2008 (lot 343)

When her parents commissioned this portrait in around 1900

and subsequent employment aboard the ‘Harvest Queen’

the painting rewards prolonged looking

several spoons hang alongside a fireplace decorated with Delft tiles

The scene invites quiet reflection on both civilisation’s endurance and fragility

It carries a level of Baroque intensity yet softened by the ethereal grace of the subject

Overall size: 15” x 19” / 38cm x 48cm

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