Vintage Original Oil Painting of Fishing Boats in Harbour – 1968

An original oil painting on board depicting a busy fishing harbour, dated 1968, with a handwritten label on the reverse identifying the subject as Andreas Stübbe and IJselandvaarders, the latter a Dutch term referring to fishing vessels associated with Icelandic waters. The painting captures a closely moored group of working fishing boats, their tall masts, rigging and substantial timber hulls filling the composition. Painted with confident, expressive brushwork and areas of thickly applied oil paint, the scene combines rusty reds, deep greens, charcoal and flashes of blue against a pale, loosely worked harbour backdrop. The overlapping boats and intersecting rigging give the painting a wonderful sense of activity, while the broad, energetic handling of the paint is typical of mid-20th-century maritime painting. Presented in a simple dark wooden frame, this atmospheric piece would sit particularly well in a coastal interior, study or amongst a collection of original maritime artwork

46x56cm