AUTHOR: Peter Raadsig 1806-1882 TECHNIQUE: oil on canvas DIMENSIONS: 65-43 cm DIMENSIONS WITH FRAME: 81-58 cm NOTES: Magnificent oil painting on canvas by the Danish master PETER JOHANN RAADSIG signed and dated 1880, in the beautiful original frame (as from photos with some imperfections due to time), original canvas and frame, 2 small restorations (if you see them on the back in the photos). The world-renowned author boasts over 200 auction results with a ceiling of 12095 euros in 2001 in Copenhagen. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: He studied at the Copenhagen Academy, obtained prestigious awards already in his youth thanks to a series of small paintings of historical subjects and between 1833 and 1840 the royal house bought four works for his own collection, born at aim to acquire works by talented young artists. Despite the awards he fails to obtain the scholarship to go abroad and so, encouraged by Bertel Thorvaldsen and Chritoffer w. Eckesberg, in 1841 went to Rome by his own means. With so much sacrifice and living in hardship he manages to spend four years between Rome and the neighboring countries in Lazio and one year in Munich. He was a prolific painter, who never abandoned his artistic personality, not even out of necessity, representing subjects and scenes with settings and cuts not usual for the time and avoiding falling into the ease of prosaic even when dealing with sacred subjects, preponderant part in his pictorial activity. He was born on 18th October in Copenhagen and died there on July 1st. Raadsig was a painter of genre and figure scenes and landscapes who studied under Kunstakademi in Copenhagen. He is especially known for his depiction of coastal scenes and notably fisherfolk. Although he spent most of his career immersed in the artistic life of Denmark he also spent some time in Rome and Munich. His work is represented in the Aarhus with a piece entitled “Jens H. Ulfstand and the Abbot of Bekkeskov, in the National Museum of Copenhagen with 6 paintings and in Skagen with a piece called“ In the Dunes of Old Skagen ”. FOR MORE PHOTOS PLEASE CONTACT ME BY MAIL OR WHATSAPP SHIPPING COST IN ITALY WITH COURIER, NOT INSURED, FREE. THE COURIER DELIVERS ON THE STREET FLOOR ONLY. YOU CAN COLLECT IN STORE FOR FREE FROM ME, EXCLUDING SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND SUNDAY WITHIN 10 DAYS OF PURCHASE.