18th Century Paintings

Amazing 260 year old Japanese kakejiku (hanging scroll) with a refined painting of the nine headed dragon deity, with a Buddhist flame as a crown, an...

18th Century elegant portrait of noble lady with necklace and pendant inset with ruby and emerald stone. Oil on canvas.

The Engravings are showing The Old town of Paris and Neuilly at the beginning. the condition of the Frames is good, and the Paper is in fair condition. You can see on the paper whic...

Adoration of the Shepherds, French School. Oil on canvas, 18th Century. Framed.

Early 18th century portrait of a gentleman, William Woodhouse of Rearsby Hall. Superbly painted, oil on canvas in nice conditi...

Maria Geertruida Barbiers - Snabillé (1776-1838) Watercolor A watercolor titled "Een ontloken roos" signed by Maria Geertruida Barbiers-Snabillé on the back Maria Geertruida Snab...

Painting by Pietro Domenico Ollivero. "Manio Annio Curio Dentato receives the ambassadors of the Samnites", around 1740 The work in question depicts the scene of and was made by the famous italian painter Pietro Domenico Ollivero. The oval canvas shows on the back the card of the Galleria Caretto in Turin (Italy) with the authentic 1965 Giorgio Caretto. The work was also published in "I Piaceri e le grazie" by Arabella Cifani and Franco Monetti in 1993. The subject refers to the history of Rome and an episode narrated by the historian Valerio Massimo. Manius Curius Dentatus (330 BC - 270 BC), one of the great Romans of the 3rd century B.C. was a consul in ancient Rome, known for ending the Samnite Wars. Elected consul in 290 BC. along with Publio Cornelio Rufino, in the same year he fought and won the Third War against the Samnites and their allies, thus ending a conflict that had lasted for 49 years. He definitively subdued the Sabines and the Greek army of Pyrrhus in the battle of Benevento. He represented the ideal prototype of ancient Roman for the generations that followed in that he avoided public honours; Cato the censor, who collected his sayings, placed him among the great figures of universal history. For centuries after his death (in 270 B.C. while overseeing the construction of the second aqueduct in Rome) his military exploits were recounted and his moral rectitude was praised as an example for all the Romans. Ollivero, in the cultured choice of the episode, illustrates the moment when Manio Curio Dentato is found in his home, characterized by Roman walls, sitting by the fire, on a rustic bench while eating his meal in a "ligneo catillo" (wooden basin...

Nice wooden panel painted with geometric decorations, figures and fantastic animals, probably used to hide niches in the wall or as a decorative element on the door jamb. Typical Mar...

Fantastic 18th century French Louis XV entry or foyer console table lacquer painted by artist Ira Yeager (American 1938-2022). The table features a...

A fine antique miniature portrait painting, John Smart (1741-1811). The painting circa 1780. A very handsome portrait miniature of a young military officer...

A rare pair of Flemish 18th century "Verre Églomisé" Reverse Glass Paintings, each depicting riverfront scenes with figures, fishermen castles, co...

18th Century painting of an Italian coastal scene, unsigned. Professionally cleaned and relined in the second half of the 20th century. New gold leaf...

Pair of oil portraits of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I of Austria 18th century, in the manner of Martin van Meytens (Dutch/Swedish,...

Rare Double painting on canvas. On the framed side a refined representation of the crucifix, on the other a depiction of the Virgin Mary holding the...

Beautiful antique oil painting on canvas portrait of a gentleman. Excellent pictorial quality great attention to detail. English school ...

18th Century or 19th Century Orientalist Painting Of A Turkish Ottoman Sultan Mahomed Unframed in good condition ready to be framed and hung Size ...

Italian painting, oil on canvas, 18th century

This beautiful water color scene by Dutch artist Gertrude Maria (1814-1886) has a really great museum value!!! The painting is made in watercolor. It will perfectly fit into any ...

A northern Italian early XVIII century painting of Francesco Perezzoli, depicting the birth of Venus. Oil on canvas. Original guild wood frame. Italy circa 1700.

with thought to be Izumo no Okuni (1578-1613). Mineral pigments and gold dust on mulberry paper with silk brocade border.

A late 18th-century Italian oil on canvas still life painting of grapes. Period Italian frame. The total measurement with frame is 27"W, 33"H, 2.50" D.

A Beautiful oil on board antique portrait of a boy by an unknown artist. The artist succeeded in capturing this boys striking expression. Age related wear and patina. May have had...

Antique French painting from the second half of the 18th century. Oil on canvas artwork depicting a gallant party in the woods, genre scene with characters in the style of Jean-Honor...

An extraordinary oil on cardboard, French school, 18th century. "Naval battle", signed. With a naive style, shows a naval battle, possibly the battle of Trafalgar, in a beautiful ra...

Antique Italian painting from 18th century. Oil artwork on canvas depicting biblical subject Joseph and and Potiphar's Wife of good pictorial hand. Beautiful measure and pleasant fur...

Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Oil on canvas artwork depicting a particular classic genre scene on a bucolic landscape of good pictorial quality. Painting of good size and pleasant furnishings with a non-coeval wooden frame, from the 20th century, carved, gilded and silvered. Frame with fabric passe-partout with some small signs of wear. Artwork of pleasant perspective and good brightness, finely represented characters in classic clothes...

Beautiful oil on canvas depicting an architectural caprice with figures and an imaginary landscape background. Excellent state of conservation with a giltwood box frame gilted with pure gold leaf. Venetian manufacture attributable to the School of Giuseppe Zais...

18th Century oil on canvas study of an Arabian white stallion horse. Attributed to Alfred De Dreux In wonderful frame ready to hang Frame is 19 ...

We offer a very interesting work of art, this ,s an excepcional Italian Baroque Oil /canvas , showing a Rubens and Van Dyck portrait, teacher and student together !!! Peter Paul Rub...

Set of Four Chinese Paintings in Rosewood Frames, Signed, 19th Century, Oil Canvas Stunning example of Oriental works on canvas on wood. Each in a fine custom rosewood frame, matted. The set depicting a story of a band leader...

Sir Joshua Reynolds painted Lady Forrester - nee Lady Catherine Mary Manners, Daughter of the Duchess of Rutland - on at least four occasions as a child and in later life. Her fac...

Wonderful work of art attributed to the splendid art of Monsiau Nicolas-André (1754-1837) in the 18th century. The work is a round framed painting...

Important French mirror and console from 1760/70 18th century carved from solid wood with old gold plating. In the upper part hand-painted oil painting with an epoch-typical scene...

George Lambert (1700 - 1765) Bucolic landscape with characters Measures: Oil on canvas, 50 x 74 cm Frame 59 x 84 cm George Lambert with Richard Wilson is recognized as one of the greatest interpreters of English landscape painting. Lambert was born in Kent and studied art with Warner Hassells and John Wootton...

Emilian school, 18th century Still life with fruit and biscuits Oil on canvas, 32 x 52.5 cm - with frame 44.5 x 64 x 5.5 cm Composite still life enlivened by a colorful arrangem...

Paolo Monaldi (Rome, 1710 - after 1779), attr. Genre scene Oil on canvas, 34 x 25 cm With frame, 36 x 46 cm The canvas describes a moment of rest taken from the rural world: the strings of a lute plucked by an elderly man in the foreground cheer a woman with her child and a passer-by with his mule stopped to listen. The subject is typical of Paolo Monaldi, a painter born in Rome in 1710 and a pupil of the landscape painter Paolo Anesi...

Beautiful antique oil painting on canvas portrait of a gentleman. Excellent pictorial quality great attention to detail. English school ...

18th century Italian painting on canvas. Dimensions: 27.75" H x 38.25" W x 3" D.

Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Oval work oil on canvas depicting a religious subject Madonna with child of good pictorial quality. Contemporary carved and gilded woo...

Stunning late 1700s baroque oil painting (Fiemme Valley. Trentino) Strongly considered a Unterperger's circle artwork by the experts hired for this task...

Interests: Royalty, Enlightened Absolutism, 18th century European painting, Joseph Hickel, Marie Antoinette A fine pair of 18th century portraits depicting Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress consort, Queen consort of Germany, Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia and Archduchess of Austria and her son Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, King of the Romans, Germany and Archduke of Austria. Empress Maria...

18th century French Baroque Old Master painting oil on leather. Old Master painting, French Baroque period 18th century oil on leather represents a lush imaginary landscape in ric...

A large antique oil on canvas painting entitled "Sacrifice to Minerva", circle of Francesco Solimena, attributed to Odoardo Vicinelli, dating from the mid 18th Century. The painting depicts a man standing, behind an altar, shielding himself from a kindling fire. To the left of the altar is seated Minerva, in classical flowing white robes, surrounded by a crowd of people. Francesco Solimena (4 October 1657 – 3 April 1747) was a prolific Italian painter of the Baroque era, one of an established family of painters and draughtsmen. Verso: Title, describtion, inventory marks and later restoration stamp: Aitken Dott & Son, Edinburgh 15 July 1970. Also bears an inscription attributing the painting to Odoardo Vicinelli: Odoardo Vicinelli, scholar of Giovanni Maria Morandi, flourished about 1750 an excellent master of the Venetian and Roman Schools, Provenance: Formerly at Letterfourie, Morayshire, and by descent, through the Gordon family Letterfourie House is a Georgian house in Moray Scotland, built by Robert Adam and completed in 1773 for Clan Gordon...

Spanish Colonial Madonna and Child Original oil on wood painting XVIII century DETAILS Original period frame. PAINTING DIMENSIONS Height: 6-3/8 inches Width: 7.5 inches Depth:...

A beautifully executed and rare complementary pair of oil on canvas paintings depicting two of the moist famous and important counter reformation catholic saints St Francis Xavier and St Carlo Borromeo shown in scenes of what the respective saints are mostly famous for. St Francis Xavier for the conversion to Christianity of many S. E Asian countries notably India and St Carlo Borromeo shown asking the Virgin Mary to intercede for the cessation of the terrible plague of 1576. The paintings are presented in refreshed gilded carved wooden frames and are unsigned. St. Francis Xavier was born in Spanish Navarre in 1506 and in 1528, he met St. Ignatius of Loyola. He became one of the seven in 1534 who founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuit Order). In 1536, he left the University of Paris and joined St. Ignatius in Venice. He was ordained in 1537, and in 1540 after the Society was recognized by the Pope, he journeyed to the Far East. Francis Xavier first evangelized the Portuguese colony of Goa in India, then Travancore, Ceylon, Malacca, and the surrounding islands. From there he journeyed to Japan, where he gave Christianity such deep roots that it survived centuries of violent persecution. He died on Sancian Island in 1552, while he was seeking to penetrate into the great forbidden land of China. Despite language problems, lack of funds, resistance from the Europeans as well as the natives, he persevered. St. Francis converted more people in his life than anyone since the Apostle St. Paul. He baptized over 3 million people, converted the entire town of Goa in India, and he labored in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and Japan. He was truly a missionary par excellence. St Carlo Borromeo (1538-1584), was a Cardinal of the Holy Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Milan from 1565 to 1583. He was described in the decree for his canonization, as “a man, even while the world smiles on him with the utmost flattery, he lives crucified to the world, spiritually, trampling earthly things, seeking continuously the things of heaven, emulating the life of the Angels on earth, in his thoughts and actions. The plague began in the month of August that year. Milan was celebrating joyfully the arrival of Don John of Austria, on his way to Flanders, where he had been appointed governor. The city authorities were abuzz with excitement in their desire to bestow the highest honours on the Spanish prince, but Charles, who had been Archbishop of the diocese for six years, was following with concern the news coming from Trento, Verona and Mantua, where the plague had begun claiming victims. The first cases exploded in Milan on August 11th, right at the moment when Don John of Austria arrived. The victor of Lepanto, followed by the governor, Antonio de Guzmán y Zuñiga, departed the city, while Carlo Borromeo, who was in Lodi for the Bishop’s funeral, returned in haste. Confusion and fear reigned in Milan and the Archbishop dedicated himself completely to assisting the sick and ordering public and private prayers. Dom Prosper Guéranger sums up his infinite charity in this way: “In the absence of local authorities, he organized the health service, founded or renewed hospitals, sought money and provisions, decreed preventive measures. Most importantly though, he took steps to ensure spiritual help, assistance to the sick and the burial of the dead. Unafraid of being infected, he paid in person, by visiting hospitals, leading penitential processions, being everything to everyone, like a father and true shepherd” St. Carlo was convinced that the epidemic was “a scourge sent by Heaven” as chastisement for the sins of the people and that recourse to spiritual measures was necessary to fight against it: prayer and penitence. He rebuked the civil authorities for having placed their trust in human measures rather than divine ones. “Hadn’t they prohibited all the pious gatherings and processions during the time of the Jubilee? For him, and he was convinced of it, these were the causes of the chastisement. The magistrates who governed the city continued to oppose public ceremonies, out of fear that the large gathering of people would spread contagion, but Charles “who was guided by the Divine Spirit” – recounts another biographer – convinced them by citing various examples, among which was the one regarding St. Gregory the Great who had halted the plague devastating Rome in 590. While the pestilence spread, the Archbishop then ordered three general processions to take place in Milan on the 3rd, 5th and 6th of October, “to placate the wrath of God”. On the first day, the Saint, despite it not being the Lenten season, placed ashes on the heads of the thousands gathered, exhorting them to penitence. Once the ceremony was over, the procession went to the Basilica of St. Ambrose. Charles put himself at the head of the people, dressed in a hooded purple robe, barefoot, penitential cord at his neck and large cross in his hand. The second procession led by the Cardinal headed towards the Basilica of San Lorenzo. The third day the procession from the Duomo headed for the Basilica of Santa Maria at San Celso. St. Carlo carried in his hands a relique of Our Lord’s Holy Nail, which had been given by the Emperor Theodosius to St. Ambrose in the 5th century. The plague didn’t show any signs of waning and Milan appeared depopulated, as a third of its citizens had lost their lives and the others were in quarantine or didn’t dare leave their homes. The Archbishop ordered about twenty stone columns with a cross at the top to be erected in the main squares and city crossroads, allowing the inhabitants from every quarter to take part in the Masses and public prayers - from the windows of their homes. One of Milan’s protectors was St. Sebastian, the martyr the Romans had recourse to during the plague in 672. St. Charles suggested that the magistrates of Milan reconstruct the sanctuary dedicated to him, which was falling into ruins, and to celebrate a solemn feast in his honour for ten years. Finally in July 1577, the plague ceased and in September the founding stone was laid in the civic temple of St. Sebastian, where on January 20th every year, even today a Mass is offered to recall the end of the scourge. St.Carlo Borromeo died on November 3rd 1584 and was buried in the Duomo of Milan. His heart was solemnly translated to Rome, in the Basilica of Saints Ambrose...

Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting a religious subject Saint Anthony of Padua and baby Jesus of good pictorial quality. Painting of excep...

For sale a charming European late 18th, early 19th Century Georgian/Regency era oil on board portrait painting of a youthful person, possibly a scholar, believed to have been painted...

Early 18th Century French Oil on Canvas Grisaille of Putti in a Hunting Scene. Gray-green tones, sculptural looking putti in a landscape with auct...

Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting a bucolic landscape, pastoral scene with chariot of good pictorial quality. Small painting adorned wit...

The left two panels is the intersection of the Tokaido (an important and historical road that connects Kyoto with Tokyo) at Sanjo (Sanjo translates to "Third Street" and is the main ...

Goya oil on canvas from xviii century The canvas is relined. It is from the same time that Goya made the cartons. The painting measures: 135 x 101 cm without frame. The dutch frame measures: 172 x 140 cm -The blind chicken (1789) is one of the cartoons that served as a model for the manufactures of the Royal Tapestry Factory of Santa Bárbara by Francisco de Goya...

Landscape with lake. Oil on canvas. Century XVIII. Landscape with a sunset situated on a lake, with some mountains in the background and some trees and a hut in the foreground. Sli...

Rapture of Europe Oil on canvas. 17th century, following the model of VERONESE, Paolo Caliari (Verona, 1528-Venice, 1588). Oil on canvas showing a scen...

Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting pastoral scene, bucolic landscape with animals and popular characters of good pictorial quality. Paint...

The Judgment of Solomon painting under glass according to an original drawing by Nicolas Poussin, dated 1649, in the Louvre Museum, Paris. Portu...

Beautiful oil on panel from the Italian school of the 18th century representing a faun trying to seduce a half-naked nymph, behind them a man seems to hav...

18th Century Framed Family Crest oil painting on canvas is a wonderfully well preserved work in part because of the lavish frame that was added to ...

Continental Oil on Canvas Painting, Iris Goddess of the Rainbow, 18th Century A stunning Continental oil on canvas painting, Iris Goddess of the Rainbo...