![Thomas Fearnley - Gravensfjord [1839]](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8731/17189137510_5638a5a608_o.jpg)
Thomas Fearnley (Frederkshald, December 27, 1802 - Munich, January 16, 1842) was a Norwegian romantic painter, a pupil of Johan Christian Dahl and a leading representative of Norwegian romantic nationalism in painting. Fearnley's paintings alternate between oil sketches and larger, composed landscapes meant for exhibition. His large studio compositions have a cool monumental attitude with a taste for the powerful and wildly romantic in the favorite motifs, wilderness and waterfalls, and with a strong emphasis on the image's architectural structure. The National Gallery in Oslo owns a total of 54 of his smaller pictures and sketches and also a series of drawings. Fearnley contracted typhoid and died in January 1842 when he was only 39 years old. He was buried on Südlicher Friedhof in Munich. In 1922, his son arranged to have his father's mortal remains moved to Our Savior's Cemetery, Vår Frelsers.
[Sold for £17,500 at Sotheby’s, London - Oil on canvas, 43 x 57.5 cm]