Emil Ekman, Marine Scene With Fishing Boats

Emil Ekman, Marine Scene With Fishing BoatsThis rhythmical seascape by Swedish artist Emil Ekman (1880 1951) depicts a static fishing boat under a majestic sky. In near darkness, with the morning breaking, they begin their daily ritual. Ekmans spirited portrayal seeks to capture more than the event itself. With expression, gesture and free flowing brushwork, he imbues the scene with a sense of poetry. Its early and the boat is at one with nature, its furled sail penetrates the sky. The nets

Behind the horse and cart

Émile Jean-Marie Brunet was an accomplished painter that trained under the great Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris

Birgit Hygrell (1903-1972)

a poem in The Southend Standard refers:

Artist’s auction highlight: £31

De Dardel-Kihlman studied at the École des Beaux Arts de Genève and also at Otte Sköld’s school in Stockholm

Medium Oil on panel

Areas of craquelure but the paint is stable following a previous restoration

A large early 20th-century etching of a frigate in stormy waters battered by the elements

which was active between 1902 and 1921

perhaps the creator has been influenced by the approach of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood who were working around the same time

An attractive early 20th-century English rural scene with a family and cottage