Lot 286: Thomas Fearnley Norwegian 1802-1842 , Høystakker, Rydal, Cumbria (Haystacks, Rydal, Cumbria) oil on panel

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 oil on panel

24 by 40.5cm., 9½ by 15¾in.

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

PROPERTY OF A BRITISH PRIVATE COLLECTOR
Painted in the Lake District during Fearnley's stay in England between 1836-1838.

The foremost pupil of Johan Christian Dahl (lots 256 & 257) 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. An inveterate traveller, he responded to the huge variety of landscapes that he crossed in his quest to record nature and his changing surroundings.