Early 19th-Century Danish School Portrait Of A Lady

Early 19th-Century Danish School Portrait Of A LadyThis exquisite early 19th century portrait is abundant with mystery its unusually alluring. It depicts a lady wearing a white high waisted Empire dress with a sumptuous blue sash. Her hair is classically styled after figures from antiquity as she gazes across the decades with a look of quiet defiance. The Empire dress became popular at the beginning of the 19th century during a revival of styles from Greco Roman art. Women began to wear loose fitting,

Jean Alphonse Stival (1879-1944)

An atmospheric mountainous nocturne with sailboats by Swedish artist

His acclaimed 1909 paper

the sketched lines are on top

Her hairstyle and outfit match the expectations of the 1860s when women wore full bell-shaped dresses with low sloping shoulders that flared out into wide sleeves

The canvas is unstretched and framed flat which is a little unusual for an oil painting

Anna Cramer (1857-1941)

He was a proponent of bold colours and believed that colourful artwork is a vital element of contemporary living

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 30” x 40½” / 76cm x 103cmYear of creation: c

depicts a variety of disparate objects set upon a contrasting blue tablecloth

19th-century landscape painting by German artist

Charles Spackman