#marcus larson

Title: Night at Sea

Artist: Marcus Larson

Date: 1858

Style: Romanticism

Seascape paintings by Marcus Larson

(5 January 1825 – 25 January 1864)

Swedish landscape painter from Åtvidaberg, Östergötland. He has been recognized as "one of Sweden's foremost 19th-century painters" and labeled as "the most outstanding of the Swedish Düsseldorf painters."

His paintings were known for being dramatic and primarily depicting rivers under violent skies as well as shipwrecks in storms.

Larson returned to Sweden in 1858 with a small fortune and decided to settle down in the province of Småland. He built a large villa with the intention of starting an art school there for young landscape painters. Before starting the school, however, Larson went to Copenhagen to exhibit his paintings. He spent the autumn of 1858 and the spring of 1859 traveling between Copenhagen and the nearby Swedish province of Scania. When Larson finally returned to his villa, it was burnt down in a fire. In 1860, the indigent artist left Sweden, never to return. After staying some time in Helsinki and Saint Petersburg, Larson traveled to London in 1862 for the World's Fair. At this time, however, his talent and reputation were decreasing. With almost no assets and suffering from tuberculosis, Larson died in London on 25 January 1864.

It's like if he saw it coming in his paintings...