Carl Bille, Coastal Marine Scene With Ships & Overcast Sky

Carl Bille, Coastal Marine Scene With Ships & Overcast SkyThis fine 19th century marine scene by Danish artist Carl Ludwig Bille (1815 1898) depicts several sailboats buffeted by waves. The predominant ship leans towards its port side a Danish flag flutters in the wind. Bille was a master of capturing seafaring conditions and spent many years offshore studying the elements first hand. Underpinning his work was a passion for sailing and he probably sketched this while onboard. Note the tonal variance within

Condition Craquelure throughout and several areas of paint loss

Wirkner was an artisan and his landscapes feel poetic and gestural

A fine 19th-century engraving titled ‘Picciola preda il desi nostro appaga’ after a work by Francesco Zuccarelli (1702-1788)

and details of the sitter were lost to time

The portrait is signed/dated and housed within a period frame that’s probably its original

115 achieved for ‘Bal Tabarin’ (51cm x 65cm) in 2007

by painter and actor Georg Adam Strohecker (1846-1899)

This mid-18th-century Swedish oil painting depicts the ancient Greek hero

we see the riverbank gently climbing towards a central point

A chair is partly dismantled

A wonderful decorative item and it’s hard to find anything quite comparable

He appears in a list of Coachman’s Horses in 1785