Sunset over Flensburg Fjord
Wilhelm Ferdinand Xylander (1840 - 1913)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1878 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
546 x 775 mm (21 1/2 x 30 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Denmark
Order this imageCollection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 22851
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Sunset over Flensburg Fjord by Wilhelm Ferdinand Xylander (1840-1913), signed and dated 'W. XYLANDER 1878'. Depicting a square-rigged sailing ship coming up river past wooded headland, windmill and small boat and figure in foreground.
Provenance
Purchased by Antony Gibbs, London, 1879; purchased by the National Trust from the estate of the late George Richard Lawley Gibbs, 2nd Baron Wraxall (1928 – 2001) with the assistance of the NHMF, Art Fund and donations from members and supporters in 2002
Credit line
Tyntesfield, The Gibbs Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Wilhelm Ferdinand Xylander (1840 - 1913), artist