Gustaf Wilhelm Palm
GUSTAF WILHELM PALM, oil on canvas, signed GW (with an additional palm tree). Executed in 1840.
"Utsigt af slottet Gutenstein i Steiermark" (View over Gutenstein castle in Steiermark, Austria). 96 x 77 cm.
Paint loss. Pressure mark. Crazing. Dirty.
Provenance
Stockholms konstförening (Stockholm Art Association), 1840 (acquired directly from the artist in 1840, apparently the first painting sent home by G.W. Palm to the Art Association from abroad); Countess de Geer (won as a prize in lottery staged by the Art Association above); Captain Claes Breitholtz; Bukowski Auktioner AB, Stockholm, Sale 351, "Vårauktionen", April 15-17 1953, lot 70; private collection.
Exhibitions
Konstföreningens exposition, Stockholm, 1840, no. 353.
Literature
Gustaf Lindgren, "Gustaf Wilhelm Palm. 1810-1890", SAK, 1934, mentioned p. 60 and listed in the catalogue p. 275, no 62; Georg Nordensvan, "Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening. 1832-1932", SAK, 1932, mentioned p. 44.