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19 Century Italian Clock Landscape Painting
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
An early/mid-19th century Italian clock painting indistinctly signed on the lower right corner. The oil painting is set in a period Empire gilt frame and d...
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Mid-19th Century Italian Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Canvas
19 Century Figurative French Empire Gilt Bronze Clock of Caesar on His Throne
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A French Empire gilt bronze clock showing a Caesar (resembling Napoleon), seated on a classical throne. He is slightly leaning to one s...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
Small Empire Style Crystal and Gilt Bronze Basket Chandelier
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A small scale Empire style basket chandelier with lighting to the top, middle, and bottom sections. Each section is framed in gilded bronze supporting chains of cut crystal beads. Th...
Category
Early 20th Century French Empire Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
19th Century French Louis XVI Style Desert Table / Console
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
The Louis XVI style dessert table is made of mahogany, the top section richly decorated with gilded bronze Vitruvian scrolls and other decorative mounts, all of Dasson or Linke quali...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Vancouver
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Early 19th Century French Empire Giltwood Mirror
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A large French Empire carved and original water gilded Empire picture frame inset with a modern mirror, the corners of the deeply scooped sides set with palmettes.
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Wood
Roussillon Valley, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Lianna Klassen
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting is one of a series called Somewhere In Provence and is based on my time there in spring of 2018. The colours and the way the sun hits the ground have inspired generatio...
Category
2010s Impressionist Vancouver
Materials
Acrylic
18th Century Louis XVI Magogany Dessert /Dumbwaiter Table with Ormolu Trim
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A late 18th century Louis XVI desert table or as is often referred to a ‘dumb-waiter’ in mahogany with gilt metal galleries; the top tier is adjustable in height; the fluted central ...
Category
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Vancouver
Materials
Mahogany
Hills of Roussillon, Somewhere in Provence, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Lianna Klassen
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting is one of a series called Somewhere In Provence and is based on my time there in spring of 2018. The colours and the way the sun hits the ground have inspired generatio...
Category
2010s Impressionist Vancouver
Materials
Acrylic
American Empire Mahogany and Marble Classical Console, NY, circa 1825
By Duncan Phyfe
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
An American ‘Federal’ console with a mirrored back in well figured ‘crotch’ mahogany with white marble front columns and matching white marble pi...
Category
Early 19th Century American American Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Mahogany
French Empire Clock Depicting Apollo God of Music and the Arts
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A gilt bronze and griotte marble French Empire clock depicting Apollo Greek God of Music Art Literature and Sciences. The clock shows a a gilt bronze winged figure of Apollo leaning against a griotte marble altar pedestal decorated with gilt bronze garlands. At the center of the pedestal is the clock’s dial and movement. Sitting on top of the pedestal is a standing harp, a mallet and a scroll. The whole is supported by a griotte marble base with a gilt bronze frieze showing a number of frolicking and dancing cupids playing music, drinking wine waving laurel wreaths, carrying a standard and even crowning a bust of Athena. The base sits on two owl feet...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Griotte Marble, Bronze
Palatial 19th Century Japanese Imari Vases with French Gilt Bronze Mounts, Pair
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
An impressive pair of late 19th century Japanese Imari porcelain vases decorated with colourful peacocks, other birds, flowers, chrysanthemums, manufactured for export to France wher...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Other Antique Vancouver
Materials
Porcelain
French Late 19th Century Belle Epoque Style Gilt Bronze Chandelier
By Pierre Gouthiere
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A gilt and patinated bronze chandelier very much in the Louis XVI style; three gilt chains hang from a draped canopy and connect with three goats heads which hold the upper three scr...
Category
1890s French Louis XVI Antique Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
Portrait from the French Revolution Titled 'Le Terreur' by Claude-Marie Dubufe
By Claude Marie Dubufe
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A moving portrait of a young aristocratic French woman on her way to the guillotine during the French Revolution's infamous Reign of Terror that lasted about a year between 1793 and ...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Canvas
Exceptional Musical Clock with Complications and Painting by L. V. Fouquet
By Louis Vincent Fouquet
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A rare complicated music clock behind a fine oil on canvas painting of the Quai De Brancas In Nantes, France. The painting of the Quai at Brancas on the Ri...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Charles X Antique Vancouver
Materials
Canvas
Pair of English Early 20 Century Cut Crystal Lamps
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A pair of heavily cut crystal lamp bases; the stems cut in various designs; the bottom of the rectangular bases are also heavily cut.
Category
Early 19th Century English Adam Style Antique Vancouver
Materials
Crystal
Pair of Louis XVI Gilt Bronze and White Marble Five-Arm Candelabra
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
The white marble bodies of the candelabra are urn shaped and sit on circular stepped marble bases on gilt ball feet. On either side of the urns are stylized eagle head 'handles' whic...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Vancouver
Materials
Marble
Set of Six Directoire Mahogany Dining Chairs Attributed to Georges Jacob
By Georges Jacob
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A set of six period Directoire dining chairs carved in Honduras mahogany. Identical chairs are shown in the reference book "Ebenists of the 18th century". While unstamped, this set comes with written documentation and attribution to George Jacob by a leading antique dealer in Paris from where they were purchased.
Georges Jacob (6 July 1739 – 5 July 1814) the most prominent furniture maker in 18th century Paris. He produced carved, painted and gilded beds and seat furniture and upholstery work for the French royal châteaux, in the Neoclassical style that is associated with Louis XVI furniture. In his workshop he employed numerous specialist carvers and gilders. In 1785, Jacob produced the first mahogany chairs à l'anglaise, for the Comte de Provence similar in many ways to the ones on offer here.
When he retired in 1796, Georges Jacob left his workshop in the hands of his two sons, one of whom was François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter who went on to become a leading French Empire Furniture...
Category
Late 18th Century French Directoire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Mahogany
Allegorical Patinated Bronze Statue of the Wine Goddess Bacchante
By Claude Michel Clodion
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A patinated bronze allegorical statue of a nude bacchante, the roman goddess of wine, in the manner of Clodion with right hand raised and holding a bunch of grapes, while the other r...
Category
Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Revival Antique Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
French Empire Gilt Bronze Clock Depicting the Lydian Queen Omphale
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
An early 19 century French Empire gilt bronze clock depicting the mythological Lydian Queen Omphale sitting astride on a draped drum th...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
Imperial Russian Crystal Cobalt Blue Glass and Gilt Bronze Girandoles Tsar Era
By Johann Zech
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A pair of very rare exquisite Imperial Russian crystal girandoles, each with five scrolling candle branches set in a cobalt blue glass baluster vase mounted in gilt bronze, the centr...
Category
Early 19th Century Russian Gustavian Antique Vancouver
Materials
Crystal, Marble, Bronze
Roman Bridge, Somewhere in Provence, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Lianna Klassen
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting is one of a series called Somewhere In Provence and is based on my time there in spring of 2018. The colours and the way the sun hits the ground have inspired generatio...
Category
2010s Impressionist Vancouver
Materials
Acrylic
Pair of 19 Century French Horn Shaped Sconces
By Maison Baguès
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A pair of unusual shaped gilt metal and crystal wall sconces. The half urn shaped body is open and is criss crossed with beaded crystals; the bottom of the 'v...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Vancouver
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Allegorical French Louis Philippe Clock of Clio the Greek Muse of History
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A French Louis Philippe allegorical gilt bronze and marble mantle clock depicting Clio, The Greek Muse of History. The standing figure of a gilded Clio is ...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
Venetian 17 Century Baroque Oil on Canvas Painting of Kneeling Cupid
By (after) Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A fine and rare painting of a kneeling cupid holding a quiver, shown against an idyllic background. The style and subject matter are similar to works by Venetian masters from the 16t...
Category
Early 17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Vancouver
Materials
Brass
Charles X Clock and Garniture
By Claude Galle
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A large Charles X Sienna marble and patinated bronze clock and matching candelabra. The architectural style case made of Sienna marble has a patinated bronze gallery and lower bronze...
Category
1830s French Charles X Antique Vancouver
Materials
Siena Marble, Bronze
Carved and Painted Pinewood, 18 Century Fireplace Mantle or Chimneypiece
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A painted pinewood id 18 century fireplace or chimneypiece surround with deep finely carved cushion frieze and a dramatic Louis XIV sunburst at the...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Georgian Antique Vancouver
Materials
Pine
Pair of Paintings Depicting Pilgrims of Compostela After Grimou
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A complementary pair of 19th century Italian paintings in the "chiaro scuro" style depicting pilgrims gazing intently with a certain degree of sentimental...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Vancouver
Materials
Canvas
French Empire Mahogany and Cut Crystal Columned Portico Clock
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A rare example of a late French Empire portico clock combining the use of mahogany casing with gilt bronze mounts and cut crystal. The four pillars linking the top and bottom section...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
18th Century Dutch Satinwood Marquetry Secretaire a Abattant
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
An 18th century Dutch satinwood abbatant or drop front desk, with gilded beading and inlaid brass stringing. The case also has various exotic woods inlaid into the satinwood. There i...
Category
Late 18th Century Dutch Louis XVI Antique Vancouver
Materials
Satinwood
Period French Directoire Mahogany Cannape in Gold Empire Silk Fabric
By Adam Jacob
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A Classic Directoire mahogany cannape with lion's head arm supports and paw feet, accented by Empire ormolu mounts and upholstered in gold Empire style silk yellow fabric.
Category
Early 19th Century French Directoire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Mahogany
Pair of 19 Century Russian Empire Figural Gilt and Patinated Bronze Candelabra
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A pair of Russian Empire figural candelabra featuring a patinated bronze caryatid holding a gilt bronze urn mounted with a torch atop her head, with two ...
Category
Early 19th Century Russian Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
French Empire Allegorical Clock Garniture of "Psyche Crowning Amor"
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A large scale French Empire figurative allegorical clock showing “Psyche Crowning Amor”. Psyche stands to the right of the domed clock plinth, holding her ...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Siena Marble, Bronze
French Empire Figurative Gilt Bronze Clock of a Roman Youth Holding a Scroll
By Rossel in Rouen
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A French Empire figurative clock of a Roman youth holding a scroll in gilded bronze showing a seated classically draped youth sitting atop the clock case holding a lyre in one hand a...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
Marina at Dusk, Mixed Media on Canvas
By Lianna Klassen
Located in Yardley, PA
Vancouver is a delight to paint and one of the areas dear to me is False Creek. Vancouver is surrounded by Marinas and this one is right outside my front door! It represents the ma...
Category
2010s Abstract Vancouver
Materials
Mixed Media
Sunset Alpine Winter Scene by Russian Artist Victor Emanuelov
By Victor Emanuelov
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
An oil painting on canvas of a wintry alpine landscape at sunset by Russian early 20th century artist.
Victor Emanuelov (Russian, 1884–1940). Other than that he painted almost exclu...
Category
Early 20th Century Russian Other Vancouver
Materials
Canvas
Painting of Travellers at Tivoli Falls Outside Rome After Claude Joseph Vernet
By Claude-Joseph Vernet
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A museum worthy large painting depicting travellers before the falls of Tivoli outside of Rome, with the Temple of Vesta in the background, after the 18thC French artist Claude Joseph Vernet...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Grand Tour Antique Vancouver
Materials
Canvas
19th Century French Empire Skeleton Clock with Vestal Virgins
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A Classic two dimensional French Empire skeleton clock, the finely chased and mercury gilded case depicts Amour holding a flaming torch and a banner, symbol of war, seated on a quiver full of arrows and set on top of the dial and movement. The dial is framed by two vestal virgins...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
19 Century Marble Statue of the Rape of Prosperina After Bernini by Fabi Altini
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
The rape of Prosperina by Francesco Fabi Altini, (1830-1906) after the 17th century original by Gian Lorenzo Bernini now in the Palazzo Borghese in Rome. Signed F. Fabi Altini Rome 1870...
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Late 19th Century Italian Neoclassical Revival Antique Vancouver
Materials
Marble
18th Century Imperial Russian Gilt Bronze, Brass and Mahogany Display Cabinet
By Christian Meyer
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
An exceptional late 18th century Imperial Russian empire bookcase or display cabinet in the finest figured mahogany richly inlaid and mounted with gilded brass and gilt bronze. The bookcase is characteristic of the Russian "Jacob" style which was fashionable in the late 18th and early 19th century in France. The overall design however owes more to the work of David Roentgen than it does to the Jacob...
Category
Late 18th Century Russian Neoclassical Antique Vancouver
Materials
Mahogany
French Empire Gilt and Patinated Bronze Figurative Clock of Cupid and Eurydice
By Claude Galle
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A palatial scale late French Empire mantel (fireplace) clock depicting cupid and Eurydice. The rectangular patinated bronze base sits on four lions paw feet ...
Category
1820s French Restauration Antique Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
Pair of French Empire Mahogany Armchairs Attributed to Jean-Pierre Louis
By Jean Pierre Louis
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A classic pair of French Empire period open armchairs in well figured and carved mahogany; each with a square back topped by a bow shaped carved frieze featuring folliate rosettes and downscrolled arms. Where the arms join the chair rail there are carved anthemians and palmettes. These two chairs are presented in the original now faded and worn gros point green upholstery and have their original casters.
These two armchairs are actually part of a set of six. The set was split up in three sets of two's to make them more saleable. Four of the six have been re-upholstered in sympathetic empire fabric...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Silk, Mahogany
French Empire Allegorical Clock Depicting "Venus Guided by Love" by Lesieur
By Pierre Lesieur
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
An important and rare French Empire gilt bronze mantel clock depicting "Venus Guided by Love" featuring a case by the noted bronzier Lesieur. The figures and clock plinth sit on a rectangular green marble base topped with a gilt bronze plinth, raised upon four flattened toupie feet.
The round enamel dial, signed “Lesieur à Paris”, indicates the Roman numeral hours and minute graduations. It is housed in a finely chased bronze altar whose pediment is decorated with egg and dart friezes, and be-ribboned torches on either side the façade is adorned with applied stylized butterfly and lyre motifs. The sides feature be-ribboned flower wreaths, and the plinth a leaf frieze. Two fine gilt bronze figures depict a winged and semi-nude cupid who is pointing to the time, while addressing Venus who is clothed in antique robes...
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Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
Napoleon III French Marble and Bronze Astronomical Sciences Clock
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
Napoleon III figural astronomical sciences clock. The patinated bronze winged putto stands beside the ‘blued’ bronze globe of the world housing the movement; he holds scientific inst...
Category
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
"J1011", Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Yehan Wang
Located in Yardley, PA
The art is the picture plane, the form evolves out of the conjunction and amalgamation of the visual elements, the only western comparison I can make is to Rothko and Barnett Newman ...
Category
2010s Abstract Vancouver
Materials
Acrylic
Mount Baker, Mixed Media on Canvas
By Lianna Klassen
Located in Yardley, PA
The farm that my father grew up on and where I also lived with my family for a number of years overlooks a cross border lake and has a spectacular view of Mount Baker...
Category
2010s Abstract Vancouver
Materials
Mixed Media
Quiet Lagoon, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Lianna Klassen
Located in Yardley, PA
Created from my memories of dusk in Northern Canada and the stillness of water just before the sun sets. It represents for me the artist, a place of peace when I need it the most. ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Vancouver
Materials
Acrylic
English George II Style Chest of Drawers, Bookcase and Drop Down Desk
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A truly magnificent mahogany George II style bookcase fitted writing desk and a chest of drawers. The upper section having numerous folio/file drawers and compartments, a leather lin...
Category
Late 19th Century English George II Antique Vancouver
Materials
Mahogany
Early 19th Century French Empire Gilt Bronze and Crystal Basket Chandelier
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A period French Empire basket style crystal and gilt bronze chandelier with nine candle nozzles. The chandelier has a top section decorated with crystal swags and large gilded palmettes with the body suspended with strings of graduated crystal almond shaped crystals. The gilded nozzles are on top of decorative elements attached to the central gilded corona...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Crystal
French Empire Style Triple Tiered Crystal and Bronze Chandelier
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
An empire style chandelier in gilded bronze and cut crystal. The large central ring is embellished with palmettes and wreaths and supports beaded chains and long crystal French drops...
Category
Early 20th Century French Empire Vancouver
Materials
Bronze
Impressionist Paiting Titled “La Seine a Rouen” by French Artist Roger Bertin
By Roger Bertin
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
An impressionist oil on canvas showing day to day Industrial and merchant shipping activity on the Seine at the town of Rouen France right on the cusp of the break out of World War II 1939, The canvas is by Roger Bertin. It is signed and dated on the left hand corner of the canvas. The artist also inscribed the word Rouen with his signature leaving no doubt where the work was executed. The painting is presented in a gilded period frame,
Bertin was born in Paris in 1915. His godfather was the poet and painter Max Jacob...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Vancouver
Materials
Canvas
Marble Topped Tulipwood and Gilt Bronze Gueridon Table
By François Linke
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A highly decorative round occasional/centre table in the Louis XVI style; the Breche d’Alp marble top has a gilt bronze border above a skirt of Tulipwood decorated in the round with ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Vancouver
Materials
Breccia Marble, Bronze
French Empire Gilded Wood Marble Topped Console Stamped Belange
By Pierre-Antoine Bellangé
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A period French Empire gilded beechwood console having a white marble top and mirrored back. The console has two front turned legs with carved decoration to the top and bottom. The f...
Category
1810s French Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Beech
Early 19th Century Paris Porcelain Urn
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A museum quality early 19th century Paris porcelain urn. The twin handled vase sits on a rectangular porcelain base (modelled as part of the vase), which is decorated on all four sides with finely painted scenes titled 'Gene de Corrinte', 'Gene de Mytilene', 'Gene de Sparte', and 'Gene de Chiu' in reference to various Greek city states. The ovoid body of the vase is richly decorated with Greek key and stylized acanthus designs over and below a large gilt framed oval cameo of Athena on one side and a similar cameo on the other side bearing an undecipherable name. The overall background colour scheme of the vase is dark red/burgundy and dark emerald green, two colours which were more commonly used by the Dagoty factory in Paris than other porcelain manufacturing firms at the time. The vase is unsigned.
Note: Pierre Louis Dagoty's porcelain was characterized by the use of vivid colours and the thick application of burnished gold leaf. He borrowed from the repertoire of Neoclassical ornament but his designs also included Egyptian and Chinoiseries motifs.
Dagoty's elegant ceramics won him the patronage of Empress Joséphine. At the height of production, in 1807, he employed over a hundred workers, and exported his wares to Russia. After the fall of the First French Empire in 1814, manufacture continued under the Duchesse d'Angoulême, the only surviving child of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette.
Between 1816 and 1820, Dagoty worked in partnership with François Maurice Honoré. In 1817. Dagoty and Honoré received a commission from President James Monroe...
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1810s French Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Crystal Chandelier from the Royal Crystal Manufacturer La Granja
By Real Fábrica de Cristales de La Granja
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A palatial scale multi-tiered 18th century neoclassical crystal chandelier sourced from the renowned Royal Crystal Manufacturer of La Granja in Spain. This chandelier comes with an incredible story and provenance and was one of about twelve identical chandeliers that originally hung in an early baroque church called the Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel...
Category
Mid-18th Century Spanish Neoclassical Antique Vancouver
Materials
Crystal
Gentleman with his Three Children by 18th Century English Artist John Opie
By John Opie
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A large oil on canvas depicting a youthful father with his three children, two of which are behind him playing musical instruments, the daughter with her harp and son playing the flute. A third child with his back to the painter faces his father. The painting is presented in a carved and gilded wood frame. Like the great majority of Opie's work, this painting is not signed or stamped.
Opie lived at No 8 Berners Street where he moved in 1791, the street famous for artists, composers and instrument makers. Jacob Erat the famous harp maker lived in the neighbourhood and moved to 23 Berners Street before his death in 1821. This painting could be the painting referenced in John Jope Rogers, "Opie and his Work" Truro 1878, Page 220, entitled 'Musical Party'.
Provenance: Charles St. George Quechee, Vermont; New England Private Institution; Sotheby's New York April 7, 1989, Lot 1, as John Opie, Portrait of a Gentleman and his three children; Private collection Connecticut.
John Opie RA, (May 1761 – 1807), was a Cornish historical and portrait painter. He painted many great men and women of his day, including members of the British Royal Family, and others who were most notable in the artistic and literary professions. Opie's artistic abilities eventually came to the attention of a local physician and satirist, Dr John Wolcot (Peter Pindar). Recognising a great talent, Wolcot became Opie's mentor, buying him out of his apprenticeship and insisting that he come to live at his home in Truro. Wolcot provided invaluable encouragement, advice, tuition and practical help in the advancement of his early career, including obtaining many commissions for work.
In 1781, Opie moved to London with Wolcot, having entered into a formal profit-sharing agreement with him. Although Opie had received a considerable artistic education from Wolcot, the doctor chose to present him as a self-taught prodigy. A portrait of a boy shown at the Society of Artists the previous year had been described in the catalogue as "an instance of Genius, not having ever seen a picture." Wolcot introduced the "Cornish wonder" to leading artists, including Sir Joshua Reynolds, who was to compare him to Caravaggio and Velazquez, and to prospective patrons. The business arrangement with Wolcot lasted for a year after which Opie informed the doctor that he now wished to go it alone, leading to the estrangement of the two former partners.
Through the influence of a Mrs Boscawen, Wolcot managed to have Opie introduced at the court of King George III. The king purchased one of his pictures and commissioned him to produce a portrait of Mary Delany...
Category
Late 18th Century British George III Antique Vancouver
Materials
Canvas
Skyline, Mixed Media on Canvas
By Lianna Klassen
Located in Yardley, PA
I love where I live (Vancouver, BC). I love how it's colours inspire me. Even in winter, there's a muted beauty in and of the promise of the coming Spring. My studio overlooks the...
Category
2010s Abstract Vancouver
Materials
Mixed Media
Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze and White Marble Vase Turned into a Lamp
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A fine quality Louis XVI style gilt bronze and white marble classically shaped urn now converted to a lamp. The egg shaped white marble body is richly mounted in finely chased gilded...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Vancouver
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Empire Style Crystal and Gilt Bronze Urn Lamp
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A twin handled Empire urn in gilded bronze, the two arms decorated with medusa heads, and classical heads below. Gilt grape leaves encircle the ovoid body. The urn sits on a decorate...
Category
Late 19th Century French Empire Antique Vancouver
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Vancouver Chill, Mixed Media on Canvas
By Lianna Klassen
Located in Yardley, PA
My studio overlooks the Vancouver skyline and the colours and how the sun hits the buildings in winter are so very different then in the summer. This is my interpretation of those c...
Category
2010s Abstract Vancouver
Materials
Mixed Media
Rare Original 19 Century Six-Arm Cut Crystal Baccarat Chandelier
By Cristalleries De Baccarat
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A rope-twist crystal six-arm chandelier, on three tiers, the arms and additional decorative elements stem from an interior decorated gilded glass bowl; the bobesches are stamped Bacc...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Vancouver
Materials
Crystal