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Vilhelm Petersen 1812-1880
VILHELM PETER CARL PETERSEN. Oil on canvas. Coast scenery with sunlit cliff and two fishermen taking care of net in a boat near the shore. Signed V Petersen 1847, on stretcher: "Tilhører Stamhuset Engestofte" (belonging to the Stamhus Engestofte). 46 x 68 (61 x 82). With fine craquelures and minor peelings along the left edge (see photo).
Provenance: Originally belonging to the Wichfeld family, Stamhuset Engestofte on Lolland Falster and probably acquired by Jørgen Wichfeld (1800-1888). He had done a legal final university examination and had a strong interest for art and science, in particular in the area of history and archaeology. Especially his interest for the arts was shared by his talented wife Warinka Wichfeld, born Rosenkrantz. In 1967 the painting was sold at Brunn Rasmussens Auktioner (auction No 210. lot No 171) and it has until now been in private ownership.
"It’s not until the recent years that Vilhelm Petersen has stepped forward from the relative oblivion as an unknown painter of the 'Guldalder' (The Golden Age) into being on of the more important landscape painters in the Danish painting of the 1800s, ... his landscape painting can without difficulty claim itself among the later highly appreciated open-air painting of the period." Quotation Weilbach, of which one moreover can read more about Vilhelm Petersen and the bigger National Romantic works, this being a rare example.
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