Bridge over a Stream in Assens, Funen  1842

Dreyer belonged to the group of patriotic landscape painters from the last decades of the Danish Golden Age. Unlike many of his fellow artists and congenial spirits, he never broke through in Copenhagen and elected the life of a Funen farmer instead. [br] [b]The landscape painting[/b] Despite this pronounced life change Dreyer kept painting, especially extensive, windsw...