Oil Painting A Plough Team Farmer Wearing Top Hat & Farm Dog At Rest C1866. Large Danish Fine Art 19th Century Victorian Oil Painting A Plough Team Farmer Wearing Top Hat & Nordic Farm Dog At Rest. Subject. Portrait of a Danish Farmer resting on a thick grassy green sloping hill, he is sitting down, his primitive livestock bowed wood fencing, He is wearing a brown tall country hat together with traditional farming clothing. He is holding a long curled smokers pipe. His loyal best friend a nordic brown farm dog is just in front of him sitting up and looking towards his master with love in his eyes. A large brown beer jug is on the floor just beyond. You can see a small green tool box container right the farmers foot, which has a blanket folded and placed over, the tool box lid is nearby. Next to the farmer on his flank is a Victorian hand push plough which has his black overcoat jacket placed over. On his other flank are 2 large Danish horned cattle of which one is resting laying down looking towards the viewer and the other is standing nearby facing left. Further back views of a freshly ploughed dark earth brown sloping field which is now ready for planting crops. Overhead mainly overcast grey sky above with spots of blue coming through near the top areas. “Title A plough team at rest." Oil on canvas. Circa mid 19th century dated 1866. Signed bottom corner by the known Danish artist Johannes Wilhelm Zillen 1824-1870. An impressive size with the frame being 57.5 cm high and 78 cm wide. Set in a decorative later gilt frame. Exceptionally well painted such a very fine example of the artists work which is so collectible & sought after. Johannes Wilhelm Zillen also known as Wilhelm Zillen Primary name Zillen, Johannes Wilhelm
Details Individual, printmaker, painter, draughtsman, Danish, Male Life Dates 1824- 1870. Biography Animal etcher, sculptor & painter. Studied sculpture the Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts 1845-47. Worked in the workshop of H.W. Bissen as a sculptor. Zillen's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging up to 5,148 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 5,148 USD for Sheep in a Landscape, sold at Christie's South Kensington in 1998. Provenance label verso along with artist Biography. We provide friendly professional exceptional customer service. With hanging thread on the back ready for immediate home display. Condition report the painting surface is in good overall order offered in fine charming used condition. Having various craquelure, some foxing staining in places to the canvas area. The outer frame is later and having signs of general wear, scuffs, scratches, minor chip losses & stains commensurate with usage & age. Dimensions in centimetres of frame approximate High (57.5 cm)
Length depth thickness (6 cm)
Wide (78 cm)

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