Robert Panitzsch

Robert Panitzsch, Port Of Copenhagen, Oil Painting

1943

This mid-19th-century Belgian oil painting depicts a windswept landscape with a cottage, figures, copse and grazing cattle. A brisk gale rushes across the scenery, clutching at ever...

This endlessly charming mid-19th-century English oil painting depicts a rural scene with a family, cattle, pond, and cottage. A mother and child pause to observe a drover, perhaps f...

This late 19th-century oil painting by British artist Rosa Müller (1822-1914) depicts the Moel Siabod mountain in Snowdonia, from the winding River Llugwy. Two children play on the r...

This mid-19th-century oil painting by Danish-American artist Joachim Ferdinand Richardt (1819-1895) depicts a congregation observing a river baptism, probably in the Mississippi River. In 2009, at President Obama’s Inauguration luncheon, a panoramic view of Niagara was selected as the backdrop to his speech. It’s a breathtaking image, capturing the sublimity of the American Falls and the Horseshoe Falls in all their iconic majesty. The ‘Maid-of-the-Mist’, negotiates the rapids, a mere speck within a broad expanse of water. While beyond, a colossal sheet of spray is sharply illuminated through passing clouds. It was painted by the son of a bookbinder, a humble Danish artist who travelled extensively across the United States to document its nature, buildings and civilization. Admired in his own lifetime, this unassuming adventurer produced scores of resplendent vistas but also numerous vignettes documenting everyday activities. Joachim Ferdinand Richardt was initially destined to become a carpenter but, thankfully, enrolled at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts where he studied under three distinguished masters. Blessed with a skill for drawing, he was awarded medals and in 1839 began exhibiting at the prestigious Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition. In 1841, the Danish Royal Family acquired one of his works and six years later granted him a five-year stipend. Richardt trained at a time of exceptional creative output whereby Denmark was developing a clearer identity. Dubbed ‘National Romanticism’, artists were extolling their country’s natural beauty, while also celebrating humble folk life within rural environs. Stylistically, their work is somewhat comparable with German Romanticism...

Stunning oil on canvas, scene of two young courting lovers in an extensive landscape. A French painter from the middle to late 19th century. Dastugue was a portrait and genre painter...

Sidney Richard Percy (British, 1822 - 1886) - River landscape with swallows in flight. 51.5 x 76.5 cm without frame, 57.5 x 82.5 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, in a...

Massive size, this six-foot long oil painting makes an impression! Professionally preserved, this masterful work looks as contemporary and detailed as the day it was completed in 18...

Italian painter (19th century) - Gulf of Naples with eruption of Vesuvius. 44 x 70 cm without frame, 53 x 76 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, in a gilded wooden frame...