Carsten Henrichsen, Coastal Landscape With Mother & Child 1900s It’s an atmospheric old piece

It’s an atmospheric old piece that was probably originally housed in a church or private place of worship

the light is gently falling across a haystack-covered field and some distant hills

and it’s darkened over time

This technique is often used to indicate that another artist painted the original

Carsten Henrichsen, Coastal Landscape With Mother & Child 1900s It’s an atmospheric old pieceA fine 19th century landscape painting depicting a woman and child walking along a coastal track under a vast sky. The artist, Carsten Henrichsen (1824 1897) has captured the wind swept scenery perfectly and the whole composition seems to be leaning left. The bush on the right of the couple appears to have grown diagonally with the wind whipping across the open landscape. Henrichsen trained at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen and often painted views