P. C. Skovgaard (b. Ringsted 1817, d. Copenhagen 1875)
Summer day in the garden at Iselingen. Signed with monogram and dated 17 June 1853. Oil on canvas. 31×53 cm.
On the stretcher the following information, i.a.: “af Skovgaard. Iselingen midt juni 1853. Figurscene: Carl Hall, lille Holger Hall og barnepigen med Per og Michala Aagaard og Sanne Grotschilling” (By Skovgaard. Iselingen Mid June 1853. Scene with Carl Hall, the infant Holger Hall and the babysitter with Per og Michala Aagaard and Sanne Grotschilling).
Provenance: Councillor (etatsråd) Hammerich Iselingen. Remains of a label on the stretcher: Tilhører Prof[mangler] Hamm (Belongs to Prof[missing] Hamm).
Professor Martin Hammerich (1811–1881) was among other things headmaster at Borgerdydsskolen (the civic virtue school) in Christianshavn and a writer of literary history. In 1841, he married Anna Mathea Aagaard (1820–1904), whose family owned Iselingen manor. The manor was handed over to Martin and Anna Hammerich in 1867.
An almost identical painting from the same year with the same dimensions belongs to the Vordingborg Museums. This illustrated in Jesper Brandt Andersen (ed.), “Martin Hammerich - Kunst og dannelse i Guldalderen”, 2011, fig. 17 p. 218, and it can be seen in an interior photo from the north wall in the Living Room at Iselingen, fig. 26 p. 226.
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Fine art, 10 June 2024