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Brave Fine Art has dated this Antique Oil Painting to the 1930s.
A crystal decanter, half filled with liquor, reflects light from a nearby window. Two glasses, perhaps for port, stand alongside. She carries the tray mindfully - dressed to impress. Is she hosting an evening soirée? Or is this the prelude to a romantic tête-à-tête?
Born in Copenhagen, the daughter of a stockbroker, Rohweder’s early tuition was undertaken at the School for Drawing and Applied Art for Women. The first school of its kind, it offered female artists the opportunity to train at a time when a male-dominated society still broadly frowned upon such endeavours. In 1902, she enrolled at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
Her early works in oil tend to focus on maternal activities within the home. Two mothers bring children to a playdate, bourgeois women undertake handicrafts in opulent drawing rooms, and inquisitive sisters peer into a dresser. In all of these, no males are present.
Underpinning her talent for observational genre scenes was her attention to detail coupled with her finesse with a pencil. She was an extraordinary draughtswoman able to accurately render minute forms with unerring precision.
Her true calling soon became evident when she was commissioned to produce numerous illustrations for scientific journals, documents and books. In 1916, working on the ‘Textbook of Zoology’ by JEV Boas; in 1925, providing a set of exquisite diagrams for ‘The Elephant's Head, II’ by the same author; and in 1938, illustrating ‘The Housefly and Stingfly’ by Math. Thomsen.
While her career as an illustrator appears to have provided the mainstay of her income, she continued to work in oils over the course of her life. She married Aage Carl August Strubberg in 1923, changing her name to Bodil Larsen Strubberg.
Held in a later frame.
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Medium: Oil on canvas
Overall size: 25” x 36½” / 64cm x 93cm
Year of creation: c. 1930
Provenance: Private collection, Denmark.
Condition: Cleaned. Revarnished. Later stretcher. Areas of restoration and in-painting. Canvas relined. Frame in excellent condition.
Our reference: BRV654
Brave Fine Art has dated this Antique Oil Painting to the 1930s.
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Bodil Larsen Rohweder, Portrait of a Woman Holding a Tray - Antique Oil Painting
