PETERSEN Tom
A QUIET MOMENT
Oil on canvas: 70 x 60.5 cm / 27.6 x 23.8 ins
Signed and dated '1900' lower right
Painter of genre scenes and landscapes with figures.
Tom Petersen was a pupil of Nielsen and a student at the Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi in Copenhagen. He exhibited in Paris and received an honourable mention at the Exposition Universelle of 1889.
Period:
Thisted 1861 - Aerosköbing 1928
Danish School
Literature:
E. Bénézit, "Dictionary of Artists", Paris 2006, Vol. 10, p. 1246.