Swedish naive folk art family memorial board signed and dated 1865

A wonderful, and not at all depressing, large and highly decorative Swedish naïve, folk art family memorial board, signed and dated lower right 1865. Rather more a celebration than a memorial.

Here there are colourful trees and flowers, pillars and decoration, memorialising a much loved family.  There are prancing deer and motifs of agricultural life. 

Sadly the children, a boy and a girl, died aged only 7 and 10 years old.  A poignant reminder of child mortality in the nineteenth century.  The parents died shortly before this memorial was painted in 1863 and 1864.

This watercolour painting retains its exceptional colour with a little water staining and damage to the extremities.  

Framed under glass in a fine birch frame with ebonised corner sections.

Frame:  17.25” x 14”  44 x 36cm

Sight:  15.25” x 12”  39 x 30 cm

£395

Ref:  598