Henrik Jespersen, Landscape With Forest Clearing

Henrik Jespersen, Landscape With Forest ClearingAn attractive landscape painting depicting a forest clearing in Autumn by Danish painter, Henrik Gamst Jespersen (1853 1936). He produced this towards the end of his life when his style had become easy and less refined. This was probably a place he enjoyed visiting. Henrik Jespersen trained at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen and was known for his fine landscapes depicting views from the Alps and Zealand. He received several prizes for his work

He is the Horse that trots so fast

He was particularly skilled at interior scenes with figures and often painted families

A late 19th-century oil on wood depicting a beautiful pastoral view across distant hills before a blood-red sky

Year of creation 1916

In true Bernhardt style

paint losses and scuffs

While on our left a simple handmade table houses at least two pairs of leather boots

He produced this towards the end of his life when his style had become easy and less refined

There’s an inner steel to her character - a sense of defiance and cultural pride

which had bumps and a rough surface when it was originally used

Perhaps a writer

We’ve been unable to locate it but hopefully it’s still standing in a village somewhere