Brave Fine Art has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
Perhaps she’s telling him to place his catch in the basket before it slips from his grasp.
While on the left of the image, a bearded fisherman, which is probably the boy’s father, is tending to the sail of a small boat.
The artist, Ehrnfried Wahlqvist, has masterfully rendered the moonlight as it gently illuminates a channel of water. A young boy’s back is slightly lit as he kneels by his brother.
Wahlqvist was the son of a glove maker and began painting from an early age. His studies took him to Copenhagen, where he worked alongside several experienced painters, and Düsseldorf where he studied under Carl Hilgers.
During his lifetime, his works were exhibited internationally including in Paris, Dublin and Philadelphia. Many are now held in museums throughout Sweden.
Signed and dated in the lower right.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size including frame: 35½” x 28” / 90cm x 71cm x 8cm
Year of creation: 1872
Provenance: Sweden
Condition: Fair. Canvas a little undulant and there’s a repair in the top right.
Artist’s auction highlight: £6,604 achieved for ‘Winter Landscape With A Mill’ (52cm x 81cm) in 2011.
Brave Fine Art has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
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Ehrnfried Wahlqvist, Twilight Fishing, Swedish Nocturne
