Early 19th-Century Swedish School, River Landscape With Cottages & Fishermen

Early 19th-Century Swedish School, River Landscape With Cottages & FishermenThis charming early 19th century Swedish oil painting depicts a blissful rural idyll with fishermen and cottages. Under the glow of mid Summer, two figures dangle lines into a calm river, which winds past thatched cottages. While a mother and child wander along a sunlit track towards the bough of a leaning tree. The sky is abundant with buoyant clouds. During the late 18th and early 19th century, landscape painting in Sweden wasnt a particularly

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pond and figures

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The painting is signed B

It’s by Eric Ward (1945-) who was born in Cornwall and studied at the St Ives School of Art

Overall size 18” x 22” / 46cm x 56cm

Together with his Academy associates

The painting is monogrammed in the lower right and housed within a 19th-century gilded frame that’s probably the original

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