Phillipe De Rougemont, Portrait Of A Woman With Folded Arms

Phillipe De Rougemont, Portrait Of A Woman With Folded ArmsA magnificent oil on canvas depicting a middle aged lady in profile with her arms folded. What do you get from her? Were seeing strength and a sense of defiance. The artist, Louis Philippe Edgar de Rougemont (1891 1965) was born in Lille, France, and studied at the Acadmie Delecluse in Paris. He was the son of Pastor Alfred de Rougemont and Baroness Franziska von Stain zu Lausnitz. In 1919, he moved to Stockholm where he established a studio and

The painting is monogrammed in the lower right and housed within a frame that’s probably the original

A peaceful moonlit harbour scene by Danish painter

If you peer into the shadows on the right-hand side

he’s wearing a gold earring in his right ear along with a brooch and a gold ring

Paul-Antoine Hallez was highly regarded during his lifetime and trained under Pharaon de Winter (1849-1924) and the brilliant portraitist Léon Bonnat (1833-1922)

We’re catching the last of the evening’s light as it vanishes behind a distant hill

A light professional restoration has been undertaken at some point within the last 50 years and this included relining the canvas

while his comrade is leaning forward with his hands on the boat

A fine mid-19th-century portrait of a dapper gentleman wearing a navy frock coat

000 achieved for ‘Gathering Berries’ (92cm x 71cm) in 1999 at Sotheby’s

Abraham Hulk the Elder (1813-1897) and exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of British Artists

and scenery