Viggo Pedersen, Sheep Shearing

Viggo Pedersen, Sheep ShearingThis splendid late 19th century oil painting by Danish artist Viggo Pedersen (1854 1926) depicts three figures shearing a sheep in a slatted barrel. Working in a woodland clearing, they grapple with its feisty limbs while several others look on patiently waiting their turn. In the lower right, a lamb suckles its mother alongside a felled tree. Pedersen has captured the scene perfectly from the hunched trio wrestling with the unwilling participant to

large diamond crucifix and a fancy gold cap

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 12” x 16” / 30cm x 41cmYear of creation: c

and this enabled him

In his right hand

grooms and gardeners

Robert Gustav Otto Panitzsch (1879-1949) was born in Germany but later immigrated to Denmark and became a national

Nature enlivened by the sanctity of light

The general notion is that nature

the Victorians wore one on their left hand to signify their reluctance to marry

Inspired by the emerging avant-garde

Each layer more intriguing than the last

It’s unsigned but clearly by a very accomplished academy-trained artist