Eric Ekengren, Moonlight Landscape With Sailboats

Eric Ekengren, Moonlight Landscape With SailboatsAn atmospheric mountainous nocturne with sailboats by Swedish artist, Eric Ekengren (1868 1955). Its been painted with broad expressive marks and a palette that seems to draw you further towards it. Ekengren began his career as an engineer but later devoted himself to his art. Some of his landscapes feature coastal views from England and France. The painting is signed in the lower left and housed within a beautiful gilt frame thats probably its

A rhythmical form rendered with expressive brushwork and subtle muted tones

Canvas has come away at the bottom and it’s a little bumpy

On Brighton Pier

While gentleman were expected to wear shirts with upstanding collars and cravats or neckties

If it was part of Hill’s process

Overall size 22½” x 21” / 57cm x 54cm

Note how the artist has shown contrast between the violence below and the celestial heavens above

It captures the atmosphere of a lazy Summer’s day as the light begins to diminish while several villagers rest by a river

He would later exhibit in many major international cities

A fine mid-19th-century portrait of a dapper gentleman wearing a navy frock coat

was a respected philanthropist

Scuffing and one paint loss around the edges due to its previous frame