This sprightly early 20th-century oil painting by Danish artist Peder Knudsen (1868-1944) depicts a stream cutting through a meadow, with a distant glimpse of the sea. Into the first throws of summer, the flora lively and established - the stream shallow, narrow and crisp. Knudsen loved it here, perhaps in Bornholm, where he returned to paint often during the 1920s. He''s captured the view with careful attention to each element. The stream is the star, running through the centre of the composition, and tapering off. Lighter toward the upper edge, more exposed to the sun filtering through the overhead clouds. In the foreground, a line of arranged stones suggests a short improvised walkway. Either side of the stream, we see prominent white and pale yellow meadowsweet and imagine them tremulous in a slight breeze, swaying tall among the grasses. These are common in Denmark. There''s also, perhaps, cow parsley in places.Behind them, sprawling out across the meadow, mixed grasse...