GOTTFRID KALLSTENIUS. Farm in Klintehamn, Gotland.

Oil on canvas 43 x 79 cm. Signed and dated G. Kallstenius 99.

Gilt and ornamented original frame PROVENANCE Director Carl Wilhelm Nyström (1871-1937), Skattkärr, Karlstad, purchased from the artist in 1903 LITERATURE S. Rosvall, Some of Gottfrid Kallstenius' paintings from Gotland 1899, in Gotländsk Arkiv 1989, p. 436 under the title "Evening at Klintehamn".

EXHIBITIONS Stockholm, Swedish Artists Association, Eighth exhibition 1900, 1900, no. 82 "Landtgård på Gotland (evening)" In the summer of 1899, Kallstenius, together with his wife and their seven-year-old son, rented a house in Klintehamn on Gotland from the locally practicing doctor Carl Wilhelm Herlitz. According to some sources, the well-known art historian Johnny Roosval (1869-1965), brother of Gerda Roosval-Kallstenius' brother, stayed in Klintehamn at the same time. Kallstenius executed several paintings in Kintehamn. There he began the studies for the work "The Master Comes", completed only several years later, to which the local population were models. On the basis of a sketch made during this stay, in 1900 he executed his famous painting "Moonlight Night. Motif from Klinte, Gotland" (Nationalmuseum NM 1551; occasionally deposited at Gotlands Museum).

In the same year, Kallstenius executed a larger version of the painting, with only one figure, a man standing in the doorway to the farm (Private ownership). According to S. Roosval, op, cit., the leafy trees that grew by the farm were chestnut trees.

Wilhelm Nyström, the first known owner of the painting in question, was director and owner of Nyström's Piano & Organ Factory in Karlstad, founded by his father Johan Petter Nyström (1839–1900) in 1865. After Wilhelm Nyström's death in 1937, his son Bo Nyström (1900–1982) took over the company. It was closed in 1962. By 1909, the company had become a royal court supplier.