Ruths, Johann Valentin G. (1825 - 1905) Germany: North German landscape - a summer day.

Ruths, Johann Valentin G. (1825 - 1905) Germany: North German landscape with half-timbered houses. A summer day. Oil on paper / mahogany panel. Signed .: Valentin Ruths, Nachlass. 23 x 31 cm.

With strong gold frame with ornamentation.

Presumably scene from Westehude.

Similar paintings in auction in Schloss Ahlden on 9 ,. December 2017, lot 2183 and lot 2185, with the same signature! 

Valentin Ruths is one of the pioneers of German landscape painting, and there are numerous of his paintings in the German museums, including the Kunsthalle in Hamburg, where he grew up.