Landscape with Forest
oil on panel, signed lower right "Jose Weiss"
Provenance: Estate of Niels Knudsen, Victoria
Jose Weiss was born to English parents in Paris and originally worked in the wine business, a job that required travel from France to England regularly. Little is known of the formal training that Weiss received except from that of the well known French Barbizon School landscape painter Henri-Joseph Harpignies. He spent his youth sketching and painting, and his training in Barbizon techniques had a profound and continued influence on his work that is evident in his depictions of the Sussex landscape. He exhibited regularly at the British Royal Academy and the Royal Society of British Artists, as well as in Paris Exhibitions. He was a celebrated landscape painter during his lifetime, his work being particularly popular with American audiences. He is represented in collections and private institutions in Canada, The United States, South America, Africa and throughout the United Kingdom. Interestingly, Jose Weiss is also remembered as a great pioneer of aviation and a glider enthusiast.
Size: 12 h x 14 w in (with frame 19 3/4 x 21 3/4 in)
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