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Lot 70: THOMAS FEARNLEY

Est: £4,000 GBP - £6,000 GBPSold:
Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomNovember 24, 2009

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Description

HØYSTAKKER, RYDAL, CUMBRIA (HAYSTACKS, RYDAL, CUMBRIA)
inscribed, dated and signed with initial Rydal. 28 Aug. 1837 F. lower left; signed by the artist on an exhibition label attached to the reverse

Dimensions

24 by 40.5cm., 9½ by 15¾in.

Artist or Maker

Medium

oil on panel

Exhibited

Berlin, National Galerie, Deutsche Jahrhundert-Ausstellung, 1906

Provenance

Hofjægermester Fearnley (the artist's son)
Thence by descent to the artist's great-granddaughter
Bequeathed from the above to the late owner in 1994

Notes



Painted in the Lake District during Fearnley's stay in England between 1836-1838.

The foremost pupil of Johan Christian Dahl and an acquaintance of Caspar David Friedrich, during his short life Thomas Fearnley established himself as the most distinguished Norwegian landscape painter of his generation.

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