New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome

Ferdinand von Wright

88 works

Featured

Watercolour of two cormorants on a rock ledge facing the sea, with breaking waves and a muted sky.

Two Great Cormorants

Watercolor sketch of a Bohemian waxwing with a raised red crest perched on a grey branch against a pale background.

Bohemian Waxwing

1830

Watercolor botanical study of a branching plant with yellow star-shaped flowers, green leaves and roots on cream paper.

Maksaruoho

Watercolor of a dark tame raven perched on a carcass beside green grass, on a cream sheet with an embossed floral border.

Tame Raven "Judas"

1834

Watercolor study of a gull's head, a single webbed bird leg, and two bird feet on pale paper with colored edges.

Three Bird Legs and Common Gull

Watercolor of a small sailing boat on a blue sea between green conifers and rocky banks, labeled Hellespont.

Purjevene merellä. "Hellespont"

Still life of an oil lamp, painter's palette, brushes, beer glass and bottle on a wooden table in a dim studio.

Still-Life in the Atelier

1868

Four magpies gather around a dead woodgrouse on frosty ground beside birch trees in a winter forest.

Magpies round a Dead Woodgrouse

1867

Watercolor of a gadwall duck with orange feet standing on a grey rock beside blue water.

Gadwall

Painting of a golden eagle on a rocky cliff edge with prey, mountains and a lake in the background.

Kotka jyrkänteen reunalla

1880

Watercolor of a male black grouse with glossy blue-black plumage and red eyebrow, standing on a mound with faint shrubs behin

Black Grouse

1834

Painting of a female mallard on a log by a pond with two ducks behind her, reeds and a rosy sky.

Heinäsorsa

1848

Watercolor of a kneeling veiled woman praying toward an angel and a dove above a grassy field with yellow flowers.

Annunciation

Watercolor and pencil sketch of a brown and white dog lying on the ground, facing right, with a faint hill behind.

Dog

1831

Pencil sketch of a decorative wooden fence with posts, with trees and shrubs drawn softly behind it.

Säleaitaa taiteilijan Lugnet-nimisen huvilan ympärillä

Pencil sketch of a woodland edge with tall trees, a meadow and distant hills, by Ferdinand von Wright, 1845.

Landscape from Haminalahti

1845

Three pencil sketches of a woven birch bark basket with rope handles on a pale beige paper background.

Kolme harjoitelmaa tuohikontista

Pencil sketch of cows and bulls in a pasture with wooden fences and trees, on pale paper.

Erilaisia luonnoksia lehmistä ja sonneista

Pencil caricature of a pig-headed man in spectacles and a long coat, holding a folded paper, drawn on squared paper.

Caricature

1880

Pencil drawing of a forested hill rising above a calm lake, with a wooden jetty on the shore.

Aavasaksa

1856

Pencil drawing of a calm lake with rocky shore, pine trees, reeds and a distant building on the right.

Lakeside Landscape

Pencil caricature sketch of a hen-headed woman with a fan, an owl-headed man in a coat, and a man's face on a bird body.

Caricatures

Pencil sketch of a rounded hill over a meadow with a wooden fence, forest edge and distant buildings beside water.

Tunturimaisema

1856

Pencil sketch of a lakeside manor house with outbuildings, pine trees and small boats along the shore.

Haminalahden kartano