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Ferdinand Joachim Richardt Brede 1819 - California 1895
Description
- Ferdinand Joachim Richardt
- View of Scandinavia
- signed and dated lower right Faenlinge(?) S 8 sept 1848/F. Richardt
- oil on original canvas
Catalogue Note
Ferdinand Joachim Richardt was born in Denmark and studied painting at the Royal Art Academy in Copenhagen. He received support from the Crown to paint Danish landscapes, and a number of his paintings entered the Danish Royal collections. He painted primarily landscapes and many of paintings and drawings were reproduced in lithographs. His lithographs of Danish and Swedish manor houses first appeared in 1844 and were published until 1870, by which time his works had entered the collections of Queen Victoria and the Russian Czar Alexander II. This unidentified landscape is most likely a scene on the Scandinavian coast; there is an inscription that appears to read "Faenlinge" but it is unclear if this is a place name or some other annotation. Shortly after this was painted, the artist emigrated to America, reputedly at the invitation of William Vanderbilt who appears to have paid him $14,000 to paint Niagara Falls. Richardt produced over 100 landscapes of subjects in America and died in California in 1856.