Scene in front of the Estonian farm was painted by the Estonian-German painter Gregor Bochmann (1850 Nehat/Estonia - 1930 Hösel by Düsseldorf). Apprenticeship with Theodor Albert Sprengel in Reval (Tallinn). Studied: 1868-71 with a Revaler Schiller scholarship at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Oswald Achenbach. Here from 1895 professorship. Travels in Estonia and to the Netherlands. Paints landscapes and popular subjects of the Estonians and Dutch fishermen in old-masterly, , brownish coloring. Later he approaches Impressionism.

WORKS AACHEN, Suermondt-Ludwig-Mus. BAUTZEN, City Mus. BERLIN, Nat.-Gal. – Kpst.-Cab. DUSSELDORF, art mus. DRESDEN, Gal. New masters. HAMBURG, Kunsthalle. MUNICH, new pin. RIGA, Valsts makslas muz. STUTTGART, city. art-mus. TALLINN, Estonia. art-mus. TARTU, Art-Mus. WIESBADEN, Mus.

EXHIBITIONS: 1930 (memorial exhibition), ´51 Düsseldorf.

Literature: in German: Thieme/Becker, general encyclopedia of visual artists from antiquity to the present; W. Neumann, Balt. 19th century painter and sculptor, Riga 1902; Neumann, LbK, 1908; Jansa, 1912; KhudSSSR II, 1972; Hagen, 1983; Ries, 1992. – I.Markowitz, The Düsseldorf School of Painting, II, Dd. 1969, 52; Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule (exhibition cat.), Dd. 1979, 38, 146, 272; Düsseldorfi koolkond eest kunstis. Estonian Art-Mus., Tallinn 1980, 18.

Inscription: signed lower left.

Technique: oil on wood panel. Original period frame.

Measurements: unframed w 9 1/2" x h 7 1/8" (24 x 18 cm), framed w 17 1/2" x h 15 1/4" (44,5 x 38,5 cm).

Condition: in very good condition.