Bernt Lund, after Thomas Fearnley (b. Våler in Solør in Norway 1812, d. Oslo 1885)
Spring day in Ramsau. Signed and dated B. Lund 13. Ap. 1840. Oil on canvas. 41×36 cm.
Ramsau is a mountain village in Bavaria, not far from Berchtesgaden. The town was a popular destination for Scandinavian artists who lived in Munich. Among them for example Thomas Fearnley, Albert Küchler, Jørgen Sonne, Fritz Petzholdt, Christian Morgenstern and Wilhelm Bendz. Several motifs by Bendz are known including the beautiful church. The painters visited the village in the early 1830s.
Bernt Lund was a student of Thomas Fearnley in the late 1830s, later he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf.
Thomas Fearnley's painting is owned by The Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham.
Condition report on request.
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Paintings & drawings, 31 May 2016