Auguste Bohm, Romantic Landscape With Oak Trees

Auguste Bohm, Romantic Landscape With Oak TreesThis mid 19th century oil painting by Belgian artist Auguste Bohm (1819 1891) depicts a romantic landscape with oak trees. Towering over a thatched cottage, nestled into foliage, a giant oak tree stands majestic and unfurls its great branches towards pockets of blue. The sky, otherwise overcast, is tinted with a sunset gradient. A father looks upon his son knowingly, keen to impart decades of wisdom. Auguste Bohm captured natures romance. The rural

were popular with the aristocracy

and these in turn form the basis of Robert’s website

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 17½” x 20” / 45cm x 51cmYear of creation: c

Richard D'Oyly Carte (1844-1901)

A charming mid-20th-century Russian school oil painting of a woman wearing an orange coat and a red/green headscarf

The painting was created on paper and it seems that it’s been saved at some point by attaching it to board

His landscapes are often imbued with buoyancy

There’s an intelligent use of light and shade throughout the face

and sensitivity

with the chair rendered at an angle - a book placed on top

poets and writers were transfixed by this vista - JMW Turner

Many of his expeditions involved long sledge trips through Greenland’s wildest terrain - across unstable sea ice