Study of Water and Plants
1837
Medium
Oil on paper, laid down on wood
Dimensions
15 3/8 × 20 1/2 in. (39 × 52 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Christen Sveaas, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary, 2020
Accession Number
2020.84.1
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Thomas Fearnley · 1802–1842
Thomas Fearnley was a leading Norwegian Romantic painter, born on 27 December 1802 in Frederikshald (now Halden) to merchant Thomas Fearnley and Maren Sophie Paus, whose family belonged to the prominent Paus lineage of Telemark. His grandfather had immigrated from Yorkshire, England. Sent at age five to live with an aunt in Christiania (Oslo), he first studied drawing at the Royal Drawing School f...