Antique Norwegian oil painting from early 20th century of Staverns Fortress

This is a large original vintage oil on canvas coastal landscape painting by renowned Danish painter Viggo Bertram Jacobsen (1900-1969). The painting is impressionistic in style wi...

This is an original Danish oil on canvas painting estimated to be from the early 20th century. The painting is signed in the bottom left corner and framed in a solid wooden frame wi...

Painting painted on canvas. Dimensions: Frame: height 74 cm / width 99 cm Painting: height 48 cm / ser. 73 cm

Set in its original silvered leaf frame, this vibrant oil on canvas captures the sunlit charm of the island of Porquerolles on the French Riviera, painted in 1932. The scene depicts a Provençal village with terracotta rooftops, a church steeple rising over the clustered houses, and vineyard rows in the foreground, all set against a backdrop of deep blue waters and distant mountains under a luminous, cloud-filled sky. The artist’s rich brushwork and warm palette convey both atmosphere and place, creating a work full of depth and natural harmony. Signed in the lower right corner by Gregoor Van Puyenbroeck and dated on the verso, the painting remains in very good condition commensurate with age and use, with fresh, lively colors and appealing surface texture. Gregoor Van Puyenbroeck (Belgium, 1906–1982) was part of a family of artists, the brother of painter Jan Van Puyenbroeck. He studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts and the Institut des Beaux-Arts in Antwerp, where he was a pupil of Walter Vaes...