From 15 minutes to sketch a passing thunderstorm in oils, to more than a year for several masterworks of the 19th century.
history of painting
He spent much of the war on the Danish island of Bornholm, planning a series of paintings about death and resurrection. He died young, a century ago today.
Born into poverty in Stockholm, he worked as an assistant to Carl Larsson before training in Sweden and Paris. One of the fathers of Modernism.
Remember the water cycle from school? Here’s the grandfather of such explanatory diagrams, told in one of the first modern landscape paintings.
An assorted collection of his undated paintings, mainly interiors of inns. Although his oil paintings are extremely conservative, but watercolours are much looser.
While the French Impressionists were starting up, Ten Kate was painting scenes of old in antique style.His watercolours are very painterly, though.
More anglers caught with their rods and lines in paintings by Troyon, Corot, Hodler, Carl Larsson and a surprise catch from Tom Thomson.
Fishing with rod and line plays a significant part in the myth of Daedalus, and adds calm and timelessness to many landscapes.
One of the world’s most famous paintings, a conversation piece for his noble friends, was commissioned by a Count with strange voyeuristic tastes.
Completed his training in 1908, then progressed rapidly to Fauvist landscapes. Exhibited at the 1913 Armory Exhibition in New York, but dead in 1914.
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