Swedish School Nocturne With Sailboats

Swedish School Nocturne With SailboatsA beautiful early 20th century Swedish nocturne with numerous sailboats and a steamboat. Two thirds of the composition is comprised of a cloudy sky with a partially obscured moon. While on the right, the coastline draws your eye out towards a distant rocky view. Nocturnes always seem to capture the imagination with their dramatic skies and evocative moonlit scenery. On the reverse, an inscription refers to when the artwork changed hands in the Summer

Stéphane Leroy hailed from Belgian and was naturalised in France

An unusual 19th-century oil on wood depicting a small area behind a barn with two chickens

But although his intentions are quite clear

Cornelis Jan van Rijsewijk (b

A beautiful mid-19th-century portrait depicting a lady with her arm resting on a table with a bouquet

Pierre Vincent (b

A charming early-20th-century landscape painting depicting a thatched cottage with red windows and door by Danish painter

Quick daubs of built-up oil paint scatter the canvas with the artist paying close attention to the light atop the water

1850Provenance: Worcestershire

’ at auction in 2000

It concludes as follows:

This idealised rural vision is intended to transport the viewer away from the rigours of life and into a simpler world inspired by ancient Greece