Joseph Thors, View In Surrey, Breezy Day

Joseph Thors, View In Surrey, Breezy DayA beautiful 19th century landscape painting depicting a breezy day in Surrey by Dutch artist, Joseph Thors (c. 1835 1920). A horseback rider is travelling along a country track. In the distance, another figure is coming towards them. On the right of the composition, a small cottage is nestled into the trees smoke from its chimney blows in the wind. Thors spent most of his life working in England but also travelled back to his native Holland from time

a horse and cart with hay

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 17½” x 21” / 44cm x 54cmYear of creation: c

Emanuel Aage Petersen (1894-1948)

Paintings such as this were rarely commissioned

The portrait is housed within a decorative gilded frame and signed/dated in the lower right

157 achieved for ‘Interiör med unge piger omkring en petroleumslampe ’ at auction in 1998

And afterwards no sign of her coming is found therein

1900Provenance: EnglandCondition: Very presentable

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