Portrait of a Young Boy Portrait of a Young Boy
Portrait of a Young Boy Portrait of a Young Boy
About Flora Heilmann (1872-1944)

A brief exploration of Flora Heilmann’s online presence is entirely depressing. Her stock in trade were floral still life paintings in the late Victorian fashion that ‘Twee’ doesn’t begin to cover. Anyone still wondering why IKEA wiped out Laura Ashley should look no further. Having said that there was clearly so much more to her as an artist. Born in Copenhagen she was the daughter of one successful Danish painter and the pupil of another, Frederik Vermehren. In 1896 she married a priest and accompanied him to the Faroe Islands where they settled for a decade. Her paintings from this time recorded the historic traditions, folk costumes and ways of life of the Islanders and are now held in the library at their Capital, Tórshavn. The collection is considered a priceless cultural archive depicting a world now largely gone from the Islands.

Portrait of a Young Boy

£1,850

"This little chap I was tempted to call ‘the Young Jockey’ for obvious reasons, but he is likely to be a student in traditional dress, possibly from the Varmland region of Sweden. It demonstrates another dimension to the artist’s talents and perhaps a sense of humour, I think he’d be a joy to live with on the wall."

-Matthew Hall

About Flora Heilmann (1872-1944)

A brief exploration of Flora Heilmann’s online presence is entirely depressing. Her stock in trade were floral still life paintings in the late Victorian fashion that ‘Twee’ doesn’t begin to cover. Anyone still wondering why IKEA wiped out Laura Ashley should look no further. Having said that there was clearly so much more to her as an artist. Born in Copenhagen she was the daughter of one successful Danish painter and the pupil of another, Frederik Vermehren. In 1896 she married a priest and accompanied him to the Faroe Islands where they settled for a decade. Her paintings from this time recorded the historic traditions, folk costumes and ways of life of the Islanders and are now held in the library at their Capital, Tórshavn. The collection is considered a priceless cultural archive depicting a world now largely gone from the Islands.