Research of paintings by Danish marine artists Carl and Wilhelm Bille by the scientific expertise department of GosNIIR

The article presents the results of the research of three paintings by Danish marine artists Carl and Wilhelm Bille, which were received in 2013 and 2015 by the Department of Expertise of GOSNIIR. Biographical information about both artists, graduates of the Copenhagen Academy of Arts, is provided. It is noted that all three marines have a fairly popular subject at that time: sailboats on the open sea. The manner and features of the artists' creative techniques are described in detail. It also tells about Scandinavian art in general in the late 19th - early 20th centuries: how artists of that time lived, who they looked up to, how painting developed in Northern European countries and how it influenced, in particular, the work of famous Russian artists.