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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
European Portrait of a Priest
Located in Milford, NH
A fine European portrait of a priest, oil on canvas, probably dating to the 17th or 18th century, unsigned, with original stretcher, minor surface losses and damage, craquelure, edge...
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18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
Henry Bowles Howard, 12th Earl Of Suffolk And 5th Earl Of Berkshire
Located in New Orleans, LA
Sir Joshua Reynolds
1723-1792 | British
Sir Henry Bowles Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk and 5th Earl of Berkshire
Oil on canvas
Sir Joshua Reynolds is unequivocally considered the most important English portraitist of the 18th century who was instrumental in adapting the Grand Manner style in the portrait genre. In fact, when the Royal Academy was founded in 1768, Reynolds was elected its first President, setting the precedent of quality for which all other portraitists would strive.
Reynolds's portrait of Henry Bowles Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk, showcases his genius in the genre and mastery over the medium. Reynolds’s portrait of the Earl expertly invokes classical values with strong lighting, rich colors and expert attention to detail to help underscore the prominence and revered echelon of the sitter. Howard was an esteemed British politician and Knight of the Garter. He served as Secretary of State for the Northern Department from 1771 to 1779, and he played a key role in utilizing mercenaries during the American Revolution and safeguarding Sweden's independence.
The portrait employs Reynolds's signature style to render Howard rightfully as a gentleman of distinction. Captured seated in a stately library, the Earl appears learned and austere as he places one hand upon a stack of important documents and looks wistfully into the distance. Reynolds makes these compositional choices decisively, as the seated position gives Howard a weighty appearance of importance and the semi-profile turn captures his countenance at an attractive angle that highlights his strong, masculine features. The work draws on the classical conventions of Greek and Roman art and the Italian Renaissance masters, anchoring the nobleman in a history of refinement. Everything from his strong yet welcoming expression to his pale face enlivened by a rush of blood to the cheeks presents the picture of a strong, vital and powerful leader.
As the first president of the Royal Academy in London, Reynolds’s commissions raised the status of an artist in Britain during the Romantic period and also established the portrait as an esteemed high art genre that garnered equal import to the history paintings that reigned supreme in decades prior. Today, Reynolds’s works grace the walls of the most important museums in the world, including the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National Gallery in London, among others.
Circa 1770
Canvas: 50 1/2" high x 40 1/4" wide
Framed: 61" high x 52 1/2" wide x 3 1/2" deep
Provenance:
Sir Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk and 5th Earl of Berkshire, 1739-1779
His mother, Lady Mary Howard, née Finch, Lady Andover, d. 1803
Acquired by descent to her daughter, Frances, and her husband Richard Bagot (later Howard)
Acquired by descent to their daughter, Mary (1784-1877), and her husband Col. Fulke Greville Upton (later Howard), d. 1846
Acquired by descent to Lieutenant Colonel H.R.G. Howard
Sale, Christie's, London, March 24, 1961, no. 29
Julius Weitzner, London and New York
Sale, Paris, Musée Galliéra, December 7, 1965, no. 165
Newhouse Galleries, New York, NY
Mr. and Mrs. F. Howard Walsh, Fort Worth, Texas, 1966
Walsh Family Art Trust
Private collection, Oregon
M.S. Rau, New Orleans
Exhibited:
British Institution, London, 1844, no. 130, loaned by the Hon. Fulke Greville Howard.
South Kensington, "Second special exhibition of National Portraits," 1867, no. 478, lent by the Hon. Mrs. Greville.
Agnew's, London, 1903, no. 17.
Literature:
Algernon Graves and W. V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., vol. 3 (London, 1899), p. 945.
David Mannings...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Rococo painting with frame by 18th-century Venetian school oil on canvas
Located in Florence, IT
The painting (with a Salvador Rosa-style gilded frame 88 x 116 cm) depicts a group of four children who are playing outside on a swinging seesaw; we are probably dealing with a prank, as can be seen by the satisfied expression of the child on the right at the expense of the one in the foreground, who seems to be supported by the others, perhaps because of the fear felt.
They are dressed in the same way, with black or brown ankle boots and a kind of double-breasted jumpsuit with a rich lace collar reminiscent of the jabots of dames, blue for the one in the foreground, brick-colored for the other three.
Children also look alike in the hair, typical of the period, and features, suggesting a kinship relationship.
We find the same subject, for example, in Johann Zoffany...
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Rococo 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Antique Italian painter - 18th-19th century figure painting - Oil on canvas
Located in Varmo, IT
Bolognese painter (18th-19th century) - Maddalena.
70 x 50 cm without frame, 89 x 69 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a carved and gilded wooden frame.
Condition ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Scottish Gentleman with Clay Pipe - 18th century art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This atmospheric 18th century portrait oil painting is attributed to a Scottish artist. Painted circa 1750, The painting is a half length portrait of a seated gentleman. He is wearing a blue bonnet, the badge of a Scottish country gentleman and smoking a clay pipe. The way the light catches his hand and face and gleams on his buttons is lovely. The frame is super in that it echoes the button on his jacket. This is an excellent example of an 18th century Scottish portrait...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
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Oil
Self Portrait, Oil on Oak Panel, English School, Handmade Frame
Located in London, GB
Oil on oak panel
Image size: 9 x 7 1/4 inches (23 x 18.5 cm)
Period style hand made frame
This is a self-portrait is most likely by a 17th century English...
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18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
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Oil, Oak
18th Century French Portrait of Mysterious Man Oil on Canvas for restoration
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Gentleman
French School, 18th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 25 x 20 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: the painting is in sound conditi...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
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Oil
A Bewigged Gentleman
By Enoch Seeman
Located in St. Albans, GB
Enoch Seeman
Oil on Canvas
Canvas Size: 30 x 25" (76 x 64cm)
Outside Framed Size: 37 x 32" (94 x 82cm)
He was born in Danzig, now Gdansk, Poland, around 1694. His father, also En...
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English School 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
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Oil
Portrait of a Boy with Bird - British 17thC Old Master art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This stunning 17th century Old Master portrait oil painting is attributed to Godfrey Kneller. Painted circa 1680 it is a superb full length portrait of a blo...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
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Oil
Portrait of William Stonestreet - Dutch Golden Age 17thC art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb Dutch Golden Age portrait is attributed to circle of Dutch artist Wybrand Simonsz de Geest. Painted in 1666 it is a full length portrait of a young William Stonestreet. H...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
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Oil
Portrait Of A King Henry VIII (1491-1547), 17th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A King Henry VIII (1491-1547), 17th Century
European School
Large 17th Century European School portrait of King Henry VIII, oil on canvas. Excellent quality and rare E...
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18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
Portrait of Madonna at Prayer - Italian Old Master art religious oil painting
By Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato
Located in London, GB
This rather special Italian Old Master religious portrait oil painting is attributed to a follower of Giovanni Battista Salvi, or Sassoferrato as he is better known. Painted circa 17...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
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Oil
18th Century By Dalla Rosa Portrait of Angela GuggerottiFracastoro Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Frame in lacquered and gilded wood.
The painting is mentioned in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Treccani in the biography of the artist.
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
David & the Head Of Goliath, 17th Century - GUERCINO (1591-1666)
Located in Blackwater, GB
David & the Head Of Goliath, 17th Century
after GUERCINO (1591-1666)
Huge 17th Century Italian Old Master of David after defeating Goliath, oil on can...
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18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
Portrait of a Boy with Bird - British 17th century art Old Master oil painting
Located in London, GB
This stunning 17th century Old Master portrait oil painting is attributed to Godfrey Kneller. Painted circa 1680 it is a superb full length portrait of a blonde haired boy holding a struggling bird. He is bare foot and dressed in a white shirt with gold shawl around him. In the background is a blue drape. There is lovely detail and brushwork in his facial features and vibrant colouring. This a superb 17th century Old Master oil painting housed in a lovely frame.
Provenance. Two ascribed labels verso
Christie's stamp verso. .
Condition. Oil on canvas in good condition, 36 inches by 28 inches approx.
Frame. Housed in an ornate frame, 43 inches by 35 inches approx.
Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1st Baronet (born Gottfried Kniller; 8 August 1646 – 19 October 1723), was the leading portrait painter in England during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and was court painter to English and British monarchs from Charles II to George I. Kneller was born Gottfried Kniller in the Free City of Lübeck, the son of Zacharias Kniller, a portrait painter. Kneller studied in Leiden, but became a pupil of Ferdinand Bol and Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn in Amsterdam. He then travelled with his brother John Zacharias Kneller, who was an ornamental painter, to Rome and Venice in the early 1670s, painting historical subjects and portraits in the studio of Carlo Maratti, and later moved to Hamburg. The brothers came to England in 1676, and won the patronage of the Duke of Monmouth. He was introduced to, and painted a portrait of, Charles II. In England, Kneller concentrated almost entirely on portraiture. In the spirit of enterprise, he founded a studio which churned out portraits on an almost industrial scale, relying on a brief sketch of the face with details added to a formulaic model, aided by the fashion for gentlemen to wear full wigs. His portraits set a pattern that was followed until William Hogarth and Joshua Reynolds. Nevertheless, he established himself as a leading portrait artist in England. When Sir Peter Lely died in 1680, Kneller was appointed Principal Painter in Ordinary to the Crown by Charles II. For about 20 years (c.1682-1702) he lived at No. 16-17 The Great Piazza, Covent Garden. In the 1690s, Kneller painted the Hampton Court Beauties depicting the most glamorous ladies-in-waiting of the Royal Court for which he received his knighthood from William III. He produced a series of "Kit-cat" portraits of 48 leading politicians and men of letters, members of the Kit-Cat Club. Created a baronet by King George I on 24 May 1715, he was also head of the Kneller Academy of Painting and Drawing 1711–1716 in Great Queen Street, London, which counted such artists as Thomas Gibson amongst its founding directors. His paintings were praised by Whig members including John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Alexander Pope. On the landing in Horsham Museum hang works of art from the Museum's extensive painting collection, featuring a large 18th-century portrait of Charles Eversfield and his wife, of Denne Park House. In the painting Eversfield is giving his wife some violets which signifies fidelity, love and honesty. It is likely that the picture was cut down at some time as it was unusual to stop just below the knee. It may have been painted by more than one person: someone who specialised in clothing, another in drapes, and so on, with perhaps Kneller painting the heads, for it was the portraits that gave the sitters their identity, everything else is rather formulaic. He married a widow, Susanna Grave, on 23 January 1704 at St Bride...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
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Oil
Oil Painting Portrait, attributed to John Vanderbank (1694-1739)
Located in Uppingham, GB
Oil Painting Portrait of John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll,, att to John Vanderbank (1694-1739) Housed in a swept frame which has been restored after photo.
Canvas Size 50" x 40", Fr...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
16th Century By Circle of Giovan Battista Moroni Portrait of Woman Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Giovan Battista Moroni (circle of) (Albino, 1520 – 1580 ca.)
Portrait of a woman
Oil on canvas, cm. 46 x 40 - with frame cm. 55,5 x 50,5
Antique shaped and gilded wooden cassetta frame.
Publications: unpublished.
The present portrait shows an adult woman, no longer young, as can be seen from her slightly blistered cheeks, but not elderly either. The suspicious and veiledly inquisitive gaze is well matched by the elegance of her extremely fashionable black clothes...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Saint Catherine Of Alexandria, 16th Century Italian School - one of a pair
Located in Blackwater, GB
Saint Catherine Of Alexandria, 16th Century
Italian School - one of a pair
16th Century Italian School depiction of Saint Catherine Of...
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18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Portrait Of King Philip V (1683-1746) of Spain, 18th Century Spanish School
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of King Philip V (1683-1746) of Spain, 18th Century
Spanish School
Large early 18th Century European School portrait King Philip V Of Spain on horseback, oil on canvas. E...
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18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
18th century portrait painting of a boy playing with a spinning top on a terrace
Located in Bath, Somerset
Portrait of a young boy, full-length in a blue velvet coat and breeches, standing on a stone terrace in a park landscape, playing with a spinning top....
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English School 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
17th-18th Century By Benedetto Luti Head of a Girl Oil Pastel on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Original "cassetta" frame in carved, gilded wood.
Expertise by Prof. Giancarlo Sestieri.
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil Pastel
17th-18th Century By Niccolò Cassana Portrait of a Gentleman Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Expertise by Prof. Davide Dotti.
Expertise by Prof. Anna Orlando.
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
17th-18th Century By Benedetto Luti Head of a Girl Oil Pastel on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Original "cassetta" frame in carved and gilded wood.
Expertise by Prof. Giancarlo Sestieri.
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel
Portrait Of Lieutenant George Addam, dated 1638 circle of Gerard VON HONTHORST
By Gerard van Honthorst
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of Lieutenant George Addam, dated 1638
circle of Gerard VON HONTHORST (1604 - 1666)
Large 17th Century Portrait of English Civil War Royalist officer Leiutenant George Add...
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18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
Madonna, 16th Century
By Joos van Cleve
Located in Blackwater, GB
Madonna, 16th Century
circle of JOOS VAN CLEVE (1485-1540)
16th Century Netherlandish Antwerp School portrait of the Madonna, oil on panel from the circle of Joos Van Cleve. Exce...
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18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
Portrait of William Paget (1505–1563), 1st Baron Paget de Beaudesert Henry VIII
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait of William Paget (1505–1563), 1st Baron Paget de Beaudesert, Court Of King Henry VIII, 17th Century
school of Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543)
Large 17th Century Tudor...
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18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
Sir Edward Clarke Lord Mayor Of London (1630-1703), 17th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Sir Edward Clarke Lord Mayor Of London (1630-1703), 17th Century
inscribed to Hyacinthe Rigaud (1649-1743)
Large 17th Century portrait of Sir Edward Clarke, Lord Mayor Of London, o...
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18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
Portrait of an Elegant Lady in a Red Silk Dress, Beautiful Antique Frame c.1720
By Jonathan Richardson the Elder
Located in London, GB
This beautiful portrait was painted circa 1725 and is a fine example of the English eighteenth century portrait style. The artist has chosen to depict the lady against a plain background wearing a simple red silk dress and transparent headdress hanging down the back. The sitter is not shown with jewellery or any other elements to distract the viewer’s attached, thus highlighting the beauty of the young sitter. This restrained manner achieves a sense of understated elegance.
The portrait genre was valued particularly highly in English society. Neither landscapes nor allegorical pictures were ever priced so highly at exhibitions and in the trade as depictions of people, from the highest aristocracy to scholars, writers, poets and statesmen. With the rich colouring and lyrical characterisation, these works are representative of the archetypal English portrait and is are very appealing examples of British portraiture...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 17th Century Italian Old Master Semi Nude Man with Dagger oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Semi Nude Man drawing a Dagger
Italian School, early 17th century
circle of Caravaggio
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 21 x 17 inches
canvas : 18 x 14 i...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
Saint Jerome Oil on copper 16th Century Paint Old master Italy Emilian school
By Giuseppe Mazzuoli known as Bastarolo (Ferrara 1536 - 1589)
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Ferrara school of the late sixteenth century - circle of Giuseppe Mazzuoli known as Bastarolo (Ferrara 1536 - 1589)
St. Jerome penitent in the cave
...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
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Oil
Two portraits, one of a man and one of a lady - Jan van Ravensteyn
Located in Gent, BE
Oil on panel
Jan van Ravesteyn was described as an outstanding portrait painter by Karel van Mander as early as 1604. After a possible apprenticeshi...
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Dutch School 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Portrait of a Lady - British 17th century art Old Master portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely British Old Master portrait oil painting is attributed to the circle of Sir George Kneller. Painted circa 1680 it is a half length portrait in a feigned oval of a lady in...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
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Oil
Portrait of a Young Woman, Sir Godfrey Kneller, Hand carved gilt frame
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 30 1/4 x 25 inches (77 x 63 cm)
Original hand carved gilt frame
Provenance
Private Estate, England
This is a very fine example of Kneller's work in the early 18th century. Here, the emphasis is placed directly on the sitter's alluring femininity, with this being enhanced by the falling hair around her shoulder. This looseness of focus is created with a free fluidity of brushstrokes. He has used a Rembrandt-esque technique of subtle tones in the face, and we can see how Kneller often allowed the bluer ground layer to show through when suggesting the darker flesh tones.The painterly technique seen here is an excellent demonstration of Kneller’s style.
The bold handling of the flesh tones is Kneller at his most emphatic, while the sizeable areas of dark grey ground we see are indicative of his method of painting quickly, developed by this stage in his career to cope with the many demands of a large circle of patrons. The same effect is used for the shadows in the face: rather than paint darker colours on top of the pink flesh tones, as most artists would have done, Kneller instead painted in the reverse order, using the ground layer for his dark shadows, and then painting the lighter colours on top. Often he worked with an almost dry brush in strong firm strokes. Here the flesh tones have been rapidly, almost roughly painted, with bold areas of impasto giving way to areas where almost no paint has been applied at all, a trick that allowed Kneller to use the blue-grey ground layer to show darker flesh tones.
Godfrey Kneller...
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Academic 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Christine de France, duchesse de Savoi - Franco-Flemish school (17th C.)
Located in Gent, BE
A portrait of Christine de France, duchesse de Savoi, made with oil paint on canvas.
Christine Marie of France (10 February 1606 – 27 December 1663) was Duchess of Savoy from 26 Ju...
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Flemish School 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Rachel Missing, Edinburgh - British Old Master art oil painting
By Michael Dahl
Located in London, GB
This lovely Old Master portrait oil painting is attributed to the circle of Michael Dahl. Painted circa 1710 the sitter is Rachel Missing, wife of Roger Hogg of Newliston, near Edinb...
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Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a child holding peaches - Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp (1594-1652)
Located in Gent, BE
Oil on panel
Portrait of a child holding peaches, accompanied by a dog.
We are grateful to Fred Meijer for confirming the attribution on the basis of high-resolution photographs.
The present portrayal of a silk-robed child, attended by a pedigree puppy and holding a sprig of expensive, exotic fruit, exudes the burgeoning wealth of the mid-17th century Dutch Republic, and is characteristic of the accomplished hand of Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp. The sex of the present child is difficult to determine with certainty, as young boys also were attired in dresses at this time, but the silk bonnet...
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Dutch School 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Lady in a Blue Gown Holding a Sheer Scarf c.1675-85, Oil on canvas
Located in London, GB
Portrait of a Lady in a Blue Gown Holding a Sheer Scarf c.1675-85
Studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723)
Titan Fine Art present this captivating portrait by the leading late seve...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bulldogs Hunting A Badger, 18th Century attributed to Charles TOWNE (1763-1840
Located in Blackwater, GB
Bulldogs Hunting A Badger, 18th Century
attributed to Charles TOWNE (1763-1840)
Large 18th Century English School hunting scene of Bulldogs Hunting a badger, oil on canvas laid to...
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18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Lady Catherine Edwin (Née Montagu)
By Michael Dahl
Located in London, GB
Provenance
The Sitter (Probably commissioned for the marriage of Samuel Edwin and Lady Catherine Montagu in 1697),
Thence by descent, Charles Edwin (c. 1670 - 1716), Llanmihangel Pl...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Archibald Ogilvy - British art Old Master portrait oil painting
By Thomas Gainsborough
Located in London, GB
This rather handsome British Old Master portrait oil painting is attributed to circle of Thomas Gainsborough. Painted circa 1780 the sitter is identified on the name plate as Archiba...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait Of Horatio Nelson Attributed To Lemuel Abbott
Located in New Orleans, LA
Attributed to Lemuel Abbott
1760-1803 | English
Portrait of Horatio Nelson
Oil on canvas
This previously unknown portrait is an important discovery in British Naval history. In Admiral Lord Nelson's illustrious and well-studied life, there existed a "silent period" spanning 16 years during which no known portraits of Nelson existed. The discovery of this 1790 portrait, rendered just before his reentry into the Navy, is a significant development for Nelson scholars, adding new insight into the leader's life prior to his legendary command as Admiral of the British Navy.
Almost certainly painted by Lemuel Abbott, the official portraitist of Admiral Nelson, the rendering depicts the naval titan in casual dress. This is one of the two final depictions of Nelson before he acquired the war-inflicted injuries that marked his later years. In 1790, Britain was at peace, and Lord Nelson found himself residing in Burnham Thorpe with his newlywed wife, Frances. Having served with great distinction in South America and the West Indies, he garnered much local acclaim. Yet, the uncertainty of returning to the sea weighed heavily on his mind. At the age of thirty, he lived the life of a country gentleman managing his estate. Only one other much smaller portrait of Nelson in civilian attire exists, a much smaller rendering from 1800 currently held at the National Portrait Gallery.
Compelling and atmospheric, the oil on canvas offers viewers a rare glimpse into the visage of a youthful and resolute Nelson, a man driven by an unwavering desire to forge his reputation in the art of naval warfare. This portrait had long been believed by the Nelson family to portray Edmund Nelson, Horatio Nelson's father. When connoisseur Jeremy Knight acquired this treasure directly from the Nelson family, he postulated that the work actually depicted the famed Admiral and not his father, as it was painted around 1790, and the elder Edmund Nelson would have been 68 years old at that time. Knight then hired the renowned Nelson scholar Martin Downer, the former Sotheby's expert and author of the bestselling books Nelson's Purse and Nelson's Lost Jewel, to confirm his hunch. It has now been confirmed by Martin Downer that this portrait is the missing...
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Academic 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Philippe II, Duke of Orleans, French prince, 18th c. French school
Located in PARIS, FR
Philippe, Duke of Orléans (1674 -1723), Regent of France
Workshop of Jean Baptiste Santerre (Magny en Vexin, 1658 - Paris, 1717)
French school circa 17...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A portrait of a young boy and Johanna van den Brande - Nicholas Maes
Located in Gent, BE
A portrait of a young boy holding a hunting spear and carving words into a tree and A portrait of Johanna van den Brande (1668-1691) - - Nicolaes Maes
Oil on canvas
The composition of our portrait of a young boy, holds a close resemblance to two other portraits painted by Maes. The first one was to be seen at Woolley and Wallace, in august 2021. It portrayed a young man, older than our boy, in a Japanese rok, also holding a hunting spear and carving words into a tree. The second one is a portrait of Christiaan van...
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Dutch School 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Saint Sebastian Angels Tanzio Da Varallo Paint Oil on canvas 17th Century Italy
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Saint Sebastian cured by angels
Antonio d'Enrico, called Tanzio da Varallo (Alagna Valsesia, c. 1582 - Varallo, 1633) - circle of
Oil on canvas
112 ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait Of Sir Ralph Warton (1656-1709) Of Beverley, Yorkshire, 17th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of Sir Ralph Warton (1656-1709) Of Beverley, Yorkshire, 17th Century
English School
Large 17th Century portrait of Sir Ralph Warton, oil on canvas laid to board. Circa 16...
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18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of a Young Gentleman - Dutch Old Master 17thC art portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb Dutch Old Master portrait oil painting is attributed as by a follower of Dutch 17th century artist Gerrard van Honthorst. The original of this painting hangs in Wilton House, Wiltshire, home to the 18th Earl and Countess of Pembrokeshire. The painting was previously attributed to Van Dyck by early cataloguers, but after exhaustive comparisons with the two Honthorst brothers' works, it was concluded that Gerrard van Honthorst was the artist who painted the original in Wilton House. Our painting was painted circa 1695 by a follower of Gerrard Honthorst. It was sold to us as circle of Cornelius Johnson.
The sitter is Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland, Earl of Holderness (1619-1682). He was an English army officer, admiral, scientist, and colonial governor. He first came to prominence as a Royalist cavalry commander during the English Civil War. Rupert was the third son of the German...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Young fisher - Phlegmatism allegory
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Attributed to Godfried SCHALKEN
(Made 1643 – The Hague 1706)
Young fischer
Oil on panel in one board
H. 32.5 cm; L. 25.5 cm
Around 1670/75
Related works:
- Autograph version with numerous variants, Berlin, Gemaldegalerie, Inv. N°837
- Copy or workshop version of our painting with slight variations but of inferior quality, Germany, sold at Berlinghof Auktionshaus in 2002
The object of this notice is not to produce a biography of Schalken, the reference work by Thierry Beherman published by Maeght in 1988. The goal here is to understand this version of a painting of formidable craftsmanship and to compare it to the work preserved in Berlin with its many variants in order to draw some hypotheses for conclusions
Our young angler is a very interesting subject that can be found as early as the 16th century to invoke one of the four temperaments. Not melancholy as one might think at first glance, but phlegmatic character. The interpretation of astrological symbols closely linked peach and phlegm, laziness, slowness, often represented alongside the moon. Here the composition is very clear in this sense. The young man, chin resting on his arm, looks at his modest cane, the cork of which he soaks alongside snails and butterflies located in the Irises. All near a willow under a heavy sky, like a night sky. All the elements are there to give an explanation of the subject and not to leave the spectator in front of a simple genre scene. Let's go back to the willow, a tree that loses its fruits before they mature. It is often considered a symbol of lost youth, a reference to passivity or times of debauchery. Plato advised in his time to banish fishing from the education of children since it is an activity of expectation and not of exercise or reflection. Needless to explain the presence of small slow-moving animals with short lives or flowers… The image speaks for itself!
Let's go back to the differences between the Berlin version and ours, of which it must be recognized that the quality is slightly lower and therefore can hardly be given with certainty to Schalken itself. This version has some additional elements compared to ours. In our version, the row of willows cut into trunks located to the left of the composition is replaced by a simple area of reeds that opens up to a luminous sky. The sky is also different by the clouds represented. A white butterfly flying in the middle of the Irises has been removed, as has a large leaf located on the back of the young fisherman at the foot of the willow. Only addition to our table in addition to the Berlin version: a second fish near the earthen pot...
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