Corrodi's Venice

 Card no 389 -  Carol

Venice by Hermann Corrodi (1844-1905)

Country: USA

Place: Seattle

Received: 8^th February 2013

Distance:  5,554 miles

Travelled for:  12 days

Hermann David Salomon Corrodi (1844 - 1905) was an Italian painter of the 19th Century.  Corrodi was born in Frascati, and lived for many years in Rome.  He studied at the Accademia di S. Luca under his father, Salomon Corrodi (1810–1892) and in Paris (1872).  He received commissions for history paintings from the British royal family and was acquainted with most of the European royalty of the time, including a friendship with Queen Victoria and traveled widely in the Far East, including Egypt, Syria, Cyprus and Istanbul, which provided the subject matter for many of his paintings.  Originally a landscape painter in the academic style, much of his work is also typical of the Orientalism style of the 19th century.  This painting is in the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, WA.

A Calm Day on the Swedish Coast

Card no 372 - Monica

A Calm Day by Lena Nilebäck

  Country: Sweden

Place: Borås

Received: 28th January

Distance: 695 miles

Travelled for: 5 days

 

This watercolour of a typical West coast village or small town was painted by Lena Nilebäck.

Lena has been painting watercolours for nearly 20 years and has had numerous exhibitions.   She grew up in Ljungskile, but now lives with her family outside the city of Trollhättan.  Since her childhood she has spent summers in Alsbäck by the Gullmarn fjord, not far from the city of Lysekil.  Alsbäck is located on the west coast, with mountains, salt water bays and a variety of natural history.