Meyer Von Bremen, Grandmother’s Story

Meyer Von Bremen, Grandmother’s StoryThis late 19th century oil painting by German artist Meyer Von Bremen (1813 1886) depicts a doting grandmother reading a story to her three beloved grandchildren. Johann Georg Meyer Von Bremen was a distinguished painter of biblical and genre scenes. Considered the foremost German painter of his type, the popularity of his idyllic vignettes was phenomenal. According to the critics, there were few American collections without at least one Meyer von

Fine craquelure in areas and a little dirty

who encouraged students to study the models of Dutch landscape painting from the 17th century

A beautiful late 18th-century portrait of a fashionable Rococo lady wearing flowers in her hair

his drawings were later used as the basis for his own engravings

There’s romance but it’s not over-dramatised like a Rossetti

Supplier’s stamp relating to Lefranc Bourgeois

in a remarkable act of philanthropy

which arises in the shape of an upturned pyramid

to adopt pleasing compositions

Various losses

000 achieved for ‘Ducks resting in a meadow by a pond’ at Christie’s

gained after decades of study