Fredrik Borgen, River Landscape With Grazing Cattle

Fredrik Borgen, River Landscape With Grazing CattleThis early 20th century oil painting by Norwegian artist Fredrik Borgen (1852 1907) depicts a river view with grazing cattle. Borgen was a skilled painter of naturalistic landscapes who exhibited extensively, including at the Autumn Exhibition in Oslo and the Exposition Universelle in Paris. A river snakes through pasture towards a distant hill, which is a veritable patchwork of tones. Dense clouds above reflect in the silvery waterway, with flickers

a steel merchant from Sheffield

Marchioness of Ely

He studied under the great Jean-François Portaels and trained numerous others

28½” x 32½” / 72cm x 83cm

This early 20th-century oil painting by Belgian artist Prosper De Wit (1862-1951) depicts a complex of farm buildings in Uikhoven

there’s a sense of wilderness

With a keen understanding of texture and light

the Breared School led by Johannes Nilsson (1757-1827)

Signed lower right in pencil

Rarely was drawing considered as such as most felt it should be either left to the professionals or kept within amateur sketchbooks

The result is a varied array of unusual portrayals depicting an amalgamation of ideologies

while lighter subjects were favoured by the rising middle classes