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TITLE:
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Rocks Covered by Heather
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WORK DATE:
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1837
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CATEGORY:
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Paintings
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MATERIALS:
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Oil on paper on card
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MARKINGS:
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Dated lower left 3 Sept 37 and signed with the initials TF
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SIZE:
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h: 26.7 x w: 22.9 cm / h: 10.5 x w: 9 in
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REGION:
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Norwegian
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STYLE:
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Plein Air
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PRICE*:
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DESCRIPTION:
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Fearnley returned to Norway by way of London and Copenhagen in May 1836 after a six-month stay in Paris. He must have felt drawn to London, because in October of the same year he moved there for two years. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, the British Institution and the Royal Society of British Artists and was certainly fully conversant with contemporary tendencies in British landscape painting. Ernst Haverkamp considers his English nature studies to be some of his most outstanding works.
In August and September of 1837, Fearnley visited the Lake District with the English painter Charles West Cope, a friend from Sorrento days2 (see the present sketch Loggia in Sorrento). The steep rocky slopes, or fells, of this mountainous region of north-western England were notable in Fearnley’s day for their luxuriant growth of heather and bracken. Fearnley has captured the distinctive characteristics of the craggy landscape to remarkable colouristic effect.
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PROVENANCE:
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Hofjägermeister Thomas Fearnley, Oslo (only son of the artist, 1841-1927)
Thomas Fearnley, shipowner
Private collection, Norway
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