Lot 100: Choppy Sea with Lighter

Fauerholdt, Viggo
Kopenhagen 1832 - Düsseldorf 1883
Choppy Sea with Lighter
Oil/canvas/cardboard, 34,5 x 48 cm, lo. le. sign. a. dat. W. Faurholt 1873. - Danish marine painter. F. studied 1846-52 at the Copenhagen academy. Between 1854-67 he exhibited regularly in Charlottenborg Castle. In 1856 he came for a short stay to Düsseldorf but remained there until the end of his life. His romantic-realist paintings are in the tradition of the great Danish marine painter C. W. Eckersberg. - Mus.: Kopenhagen, Stockholm (Nat.-Mus.) a. others. - Lit.: Saur, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Weilbach a. others.