Painting of a Gentleman Observing a Lady Drinking Tea in an Elegant Interior

We love paintings and drawings of interiors, as they portray the soul of a room. This vignette is small, but contains so many lovely details of the French salon. The artist, Leo Gr...

An Elegant Lady Admiring her Present By Auguste Toulmouche (1829-1890) An Oil on Canvas work depicting a well-heeled young lady, seated in her pink gown, admiring her new bracele...

An Elegant Musical Party in an Interior’ attributed to Gillis van Tilborgh, oil on canvas depicting a Dutch genre scene with figures dressed in rich silk clothing, fine lace ruffs and fichu collars grouped round musicians playing a clavichord, a fiddle and a flute, some couples holding hands or sitting close together and a baby playing on the floor, with a plaque reading ‘Gerard Terburg 1608-1681’, the reverse with a chalk notation ‘Ld Hesketh’. Dutch, circa 1870. Provenance: George, 3rd Earl of Pomfret (1768-1830), or his brother The Hon. Thomas Fermor, later 4th Earl of Pomfret (1770-1833), Easton Neston. Thence by descent, Lord Hesketh, Easton Neston. His Sale, Sotheby’s London, 17-19 May 2005, lot 82. Private Collection. Literature: George Baker...

This amusing Italian genre oil painting on canvas by Novelli depicts a gallant courtship that captures the romanticized image of musketeers. Novelli illustrates four musketeers, thre...

A large scale and very dynamic painting on canvas comprised of oil and pencil depicting an interior. The interior with chairs surrounding a table set for coffee to the right, two lamps and a vase atop a Pleyel piano...

Painted in the early 19th century, this couple most likely came from means, as portraits were not an inexpensive proposition back then. They are dressed conservatively, but beyond th...