Roger Schardner

Decorative large painting by Hanoi artist, "The Muse", circa 2007.

Painting farm on a flowering apple tree by Henri Pauwels (1903-1983) Belgium. Artist: Henri Joseph Pauwels (Haasdonk 1903 - 1983 Beveren-Waas) Technique: Oil on canvas State: Good c...

Painting "Church by the cliff" Dimensions: Frame: Height 42.5 cm / width 47.5 cm / depth 4.5 cm Image: Height 33.5 cm / width 38.5 cm.

Wonderfully illustrated and detailed original oil painting artwork by an artist signed J. Taylor who we believe to be an English artist working around the late Victorian time c1880. ...

Oil on canvas, signed lower left. Wildlife artist Julie Jeppsen is known for her paintings combining realism and atmosphere of wild animals in landscape. Julie is a self-taught ar...

Like many of his contemporaries in the 1920s and 1930s, in both America and France, Buthaud was fascinated with figures from classic mythology. Leda and the Swan was a motif he retu...

An elegant and sophisticated example of high style Art Deco eglomise painting, this depiction of a stylized Orpheus figure with lyre and cape is painted in rich tones of gold, black ...

A large antique original oil painting re-imagining “The Dance of Apollo with the Muses” by Baldassare Peruzzi. “Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (7 March 1481 – 6 January 1536) was an Ital...

Signed l.l. "E. Zampighi" labeled verso. Title: The New Baby Artist: Eugenio Zampighi (Italian, 1859-1944) Date: 19th century Medium: Oil on canvas Dimension: 28 1/2 in. x 40 1/2 canvas...

Dimensions: Frame: height 70 cm / width 111 cm Painting: height 58 cm / width 98 cm

(1912-1978). Original ace powell oil on canvas; 24" x 48" frame 56" x 34" American artist Ace Powell, real name Asa Lynn Powell, was born in 1912 in Tularo...

"AN ARTIST AND HIS MUSE" (1856) BY HENDRIK FRANS SCHAEFELS (BELGIAN, 1827-1904) Signed and dated lower right; early illegible label verso w/ old gallery labels; in oil on panel Item # 911GMZ09 A quiet scene depicting an artist waiting for inspiration, staring absently at his canvas with his brush at the ready while engaging with a young woman. The room is dark and dusky with a heavy atmosphere of light softened after bouncing off of the surface of tapestries and life-size sculptures before providing illumination to this corner of the room. Executed in oil on panel, the scene is signed “Hendrik Schaefels 1856“ in the lower right corner and the reverse of the panel retains an old yellowed label with a nearly illegible hand written inscription that perhaps describes the painting - the notation of 1856 can be made out and it appears to be signed “Richards“. Old gallery labels are scattered around the edges. Hendrik Frans Schaefels was born in Antwerp in December of 1827 to Hendrik Raphael Schaefels, an artist and teacher of decorative arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. He studied landscape painting under Jan Baptiste de Jonghe and marine painting under Jakob Albrecth Michael Jacobs at the Academy; Jacobs' influence on his painting was significant and remained evident in his lifelong affinity for seascape paintings as well as his taste for broad-scale romantic compositions. From 1842-1844 he worked in the studio of cityscape painter Jan Michiel Ruyten. In 1844, a seascape painting by the 17 year old Schaefels was accepted at the tri-annual Salon in Antwerp. In 1849, the full view of Jacobs' influence could be seen in Schaefels powerful romantic submission of “Battle of the Avenger“ to the Paris Salon. Schaefels was very effective at satisfying the Romantic idealism that gripped Belgium during the early years of his career, as public interest in scenes of greatness, glory and notable historical events was heightened by the recent establishment of Belgium as an independent state in 1830. While he excelled at these powerful scenes, Schaefels was very effective at more modest works, producing a volume of genre figure paintings and exquisite cityscapes. He also worked as an illustrator and was well regarded for his significant contribution to the revival of etching in Antwerp. Relevant Literature: *E. Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Vol. XII, Gründ, 2006, p. 523-24 *Dictionary of Belgian Painters Born Between 1750 and 1875, Berko & Berko Museum Collections: *Philadelphia Museum of Art [collection of 18 etchings] *Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago [“Faust and Margaret“ (1863)] *RISD Museum [“Return of the Sea Beggars“ (1876)] *Leeds Museums and Galleries [“The Death of Nelson...