Hans ANDERSEN BRENDEKILDE Oil on Canvas Painting, Village Street

An antique painting of a village street scene lined with thatched roof houses, with a girl and an elderly man in conversation standing in the street.

Brendekilde began his career as a social realist but his subjects evolved into more religious and idyllic village scenes. He studied sculpture at the Royal Danish Academy of Arts but changed to painting in 1881.

MAKER Hans Andersen Brendekilde (Danish, 1857-1942)

MARKS Signed (lower left): H.A.B.

DATE c. 1910

DIMENSIONS Width 31 Height 25.5 in. Sight: Width 26.5 Height 20.5 in.