Edmund Aubrey Hunt RBA, Dutch Estuary With Sailboats & Windmill

Edmund Aubrey Hunt RBA, Dutch Estuary With Sailboats & WindmillThis panoramic late 19th century oil painting by American artist Edmund Aubrey Hunt RBA (1855 1922) depicts a Dutch estuary with sailing vessels and a windmill. The sprawling sky, set above a low horizon line, dominates the composition, with its transient clouds drifting across the view. While several sailboats, rendered in soft muted tones, move slowly across the water. In the middle distance, a faint townscape stretches out with small vertical

there’s a simmering atmosphere with unresolved questions

Year of creation: 1902

has rendered her skin with a great degree of skill and even the veins in her hands are visible

Artist’s auction maximum: £63

And like many of the greatest artists of the last five centuries

The figures are both standing with back turned to draw emphasis to the outfits

their imposing presence quietly receding

Carefully rendering a likeness

His daughter was painting during this later stage of his career

almost crystalline

Robert Panitzsch (1879-1949)

which was published in 1842