Valdemar Magaard, An Old Captain

Valdemar Magaard, An Old CaptainThis charming early 20th century oil painting by Danish artist Valdemar Magaard (1864 1937) depicts an old captain reading a newspaper by the light of a window. Magaard was an accomplished painter of tender genre scenes. With his head held back, as many of us long sighted folks do, he studies the latest news. It feels like a daily ritual grandads reading time. The wall behind yields clues as to his life a painting of a ship, a portrait of a gentleman,

He’s also represented in the Statens Museum for Kunst

He’s also represented at the National Museum in Stockholm

And perhaps there’s no better example of an artist who understood the restorative qualities of nature than Joseph Knight

maybe a damson

Paulsen undertook his training at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen - where he later became a professor

could it be a reference to a lost love

becoming an integral part of the artistic ‘in-crowd’

He specialised in landscape painting and had a keen fondness for the natural world

working among the wilds

particularly where the paint is thickest

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It brought rewards but equally suffering as he was soon blighted by a ‘violent nerve fever’