Unknown

19th Century British School Painting

c. 1880s

Mystery English School Artist Untitled (Townspeople in a Field), 1857 Oil on canvas 41 1/2 x 69 1/2 in. Signed illegibly lower left, dated 1857 Frame available at additional shippin...

John Linnell (British, 1792-1882) Untitled (English Countryside), 19th Century Oil on wood panel 9 1/2 x 6 3/4 in. Framed: 12 x 14 1/2 x 2 in. Signed lower left: Linnell John Linnel...

Sir Francis Dicksee (English, 1853-1928) Untitled (Portrait of a Woman), c. 1900 Oil on canvas; period frame Sight: 13 1/4 in. Framed: 21 1/8 x 21 1/8 x 3 3/8 in. Frank Dicksee was...

After John Constable (British, 1776-1837) Portrait of A Man, c. 1800 Oil on canvas 23 3/4 x 19 3/4 in. Framed: 34 x 29 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. Sotheby'...

Framed Maurice Kish (American, 1895-1987) Genre painting of a man carrying water buckets Signed lower left: Maurice Kish Framed dimensions: 12 1/8 x 9 1/8 in. Maurice Kish, painter and poet, was born in Dvinsk, Russia (also known as Denenburg while under Russian rule) which is now known as Daugavpils, Latvia. Dvinsk was one of the leading Jewish cities in Russia in the 19th century, and a center of Jewish culture and debate. It was also a poor city where an estimated 30% of the Jewish population applied for aid in 1898. (1) Maurice (Moishe) Kish was born February 19, 1895 (2). A census conducted 2 years earlier indicated 330 industrial establishments owned by Jews, and 99 owned by non Jews. The dominant trades were tailoring and shoemaking. (1) "Kish… immigrated to New York in his teens. He pursued studies in art at Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design, gaining a foundation solid enough to support himself as a painter and to place his work in exhibitions, by the late 1930's, at such prestigious venues as the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art." (3) Kish also exhibited at the New York World's Fair in 1939, and by 1945 had exhibited 13 times at the National Academy and won 30 art prizes. He was a member of numerous art associations, including the Educational Alliance, the American Veteran Society of Artists, and the Brooklyn Art Alliance. (4) During the Depression Kish often portrayed "factory and street scenes in New York with the tired faces of workers revealing the weight of wage-labor upon their lives." (5) Kish himself was no stranger to the proletarian life - he was a skilled craft worker for decades in a factory which made glass vases. He was short and sturdy, a former amateur boxer, and also served as a dance instructor in the Catskills. In the 1970's, at the age of 75, he was still playing handball in the famous Brighton courts. (6) By the last decade of his life, however, he had lost his eyesight and was infirm. Kish lived most of his adult life in Brooklyn, initially in Brownsville but mainly in Williamsburg, and then Brighton Beach where he became enchanted by Coney Island...

Michael Hoiland (Norwegian-American, 1901-1994) Untitled (Church, Possibly Chicago), 20th century Oil on board 13 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. Framed: 18 3/4 x 21 3/4 in. Signed lower left: Mich...

Oil on board Image size: 30 ¼ x 23 ½ inches Gilt frame Plummer specialised in the medium of egg tempera, a technique little used since the frescos of the Renaissance, he often work...

Franz Müller - Gossen (German, 1871-1946) Sennen Cove in Cornwall near Landsend, England Bei Flut heraufgezogene Boote (Boats pulled up on to the beach at high tide) Verso inscribed in German: Ein altes Fischerhaus an der äussersten südwestlichen Spitze Englands, ganz in der Nähe vom Cape Landsend am Atlantik (Translation: 'An old fisherman's house on the extreme southwestern tip of England, very close to Cape Landsend on the Atlantic ocean') • Oil on panel 41 x 51 cm • Frame : 51 x 61 cm • Signed lower left • Verso: Noted & titled Impressionist depiction of a quiet spot on the coast. Worldwide shipping for this object is complimentary - There are no additional charges for handling & delivery. Franz Müller-Gossen was born in 1871 in Mönchengladbach, Germany and studied from 1886 to 1889 at Kunstschule in Düsseldorf. He then travelled throughout Europe and settled in 1890 in St. Ives, where he studied under Stanhope Forbes and Julius Olsen...

Dawn Seascape Painting with Pink Sky and Waves by 20th Century British Artist, Norman Scott Art measures 16 x 12 inches Frame measures 18 x 14 inches Vintage Original Oil on Boar...

Richard Caton Woodville II (British, 1856 - 1927) The French Aerostatic Corps - The first War Balloon The launching of the L'Entreprenant used by the French Army under General Jourd...

‘Awakening’ by Herbert James Draper (1864-1920). This monumental oil painting – which depicts two wood nymphs rising to meet the morning sun – is signed by the artist and dated 1918...

‘St. James’ Day’ by Richard Morton Paye (1750-1820). This very large and important 18th century oil on canvas depicts a diverse crowd of Londoners at an oyster stand on a summer’s ev...