Julius Olsson
Moonlight - Looking Towards Godrevy Lighthouse, St. Ives, c. 1895
Signed
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches
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Provenance
Private collection, Somerset
Note: Olsson is perhaps most famous for his moonlight views of St. Ives and the surrounding Cornish coast. The present view was also immortalised by Virginia Woolf in her novel To The Lighthouse published in 1927.
