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Period: 18th Century
Venetian follower of Marco Ricci - 18th century landscape painting figures
Located in Varmo, IT
Cerchia di Marco Ricci (Belluno 1676 – Venezia 1730) – River landscape with characters.
34 x 26 cm without frame, 43 x 35 cm with frame.
Oil on canvas, in carved and gilded wooden ...
Category
Rococo 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Court Portrait Of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl Of Leicester (1532-1588) Elizabethan
Located in Blackwater, GB
Court Portrait Of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl Of Leicester (1532-1588)
English School Oil On Panel
Large antique portrait of Robert Dudley, 1st ea...
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Important Large 18thC Royal Academy Old Master Oil Painting Georgian London
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘St. James’ Day’ by Richard Morton Paye (1750-1820). This very large and important 18th century oil on canvas depicts a diverse crowd of Londoners ...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
18th century Dutch portrait of a family group in an interior
Located in Bath, Somerset
An 18th century painting of a family group (otherwise known as a ‘conversation piece’) gathered around a table, an open door to the garden beyond. The father seated, with his son standing by his side, the mother seated, playing with a child on her lap, with another lady, possibly a maid standing behind, a Culpeper microscope...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil On Canvas Portrait Of The 18th Century Entourage De Largilliere Unframed
Located in Gavere, BE
"Oil On Canvas Portrait Of The Eighteenth Century Entourage De Largilliere Unframed"
18th Century French School, Surroundings of Nicolas de Largilliere
Presumed portrait of Pierre C...
Category
French School 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
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...
Category
Academic 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Parnassus Apollo after Raffaello Oil on canvas 17/18th Century Old master
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
after RAFFAELLO SANZIO (Urbino, 1483 - Rome, 1520),
The Parnassus with Apollo, the Muses and ancient and modern poets
17th-18th century
Oil on canvas (123 x 173 cm - framed 137 x 187 cm.)
This refined painting, of considerable size and great scenic effect, is a derivation of Raphael Sanzio's famous fresco depicting Mount Parnassus, datable to 1510-1511 and located in the Stanza della Segnatura, one of the four Vatican Rooms.
The meaning of the subject was to celebrate humanistic culture, a sort of allegorical representation that saw both the figures of myth and those of the greatest authors of the past side by side in the same space.
The scene, enveloped in a lyrical atmosphere, is set on Mount Parnassus, near the fountain Castalia, for Greek mythology the home of the Muses, where ancient and modern poets are depicted.
The painting, which rather faithfully reproduces Raphael's piece with perfect harmony and great pictorial quality, is the work of an Italian author active between the 17th and 18th century. We can see the careful balancing of the light, which brings out its chromatic brilliance, and the accentuated sculptural relief that the author gave to the figures, as well as the very faithful rendering of the individual pictorial details of the figures.
At the centre of the composition stands the main figure of the god Apollo, crowned with laurel and seated on a rocky boulder intent on playing the lyre from his arm, surrounded by the nine Muses...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Follower of Adriaen Coorte (1665-1707) 18th Century Still Life c1795 Dutch
Located in Holywell, GB
Follower of Adriaen Coorte (1665-1707) 18th Century Still Life c1795
A sumptuous still life painting depicting peaches, grapes, plums, exotic birds and butterflies in the style of ...
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Italian Landscape With Figures at a Waterfall by a Follower of Jan van Huysum
Located in Stockholm, SE
There are so many details to fall in love with in this 18th-century painting depicting an Italianate landscape, for example, the delicately painted figures having a conversation and ...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
French school 18th century - Deer hunting scene in France
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
18th century French school
L'hallali du cerf, hunting scene
Oil on canvas
H. 67 cm; L. 118 cm
Hunting scene in the spirit of the representations of the great painters of the king, D...
Category
French School 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Italian 18th Century Oil Painting Portrait of a Merchant
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
A Venetian Gentleman
18th Century Venetian School
oil painting on board, framed
framed: 7.25 x 6 inches
board: 5.25 x 4 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: sound bu...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
18th century Hunting trophy with a peacock, ducks and game - Dutch Old Master
Located in Antwerp, BE
Old master still-life "Hunting trophy with a peacock, partridge and game birds in a sunset landscape" attributed to Adriaen de Grijff
Adriaen de Gryeff (1657-1722) (also spelled Gri...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pair of Grand Tour 18th Century Veduta Capriccio Paintings, After Gennaro Greco
Located in Cotignac, FR
A large pair of 18th century veduta capriccio scenes with temple ruins after Gennaro Greco from the circle of Pietro Cappelli. The paintings are presented in more modern carved gilt ...
Category
Baroque 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Grand Tour 18th Century Veduta Capriccio Painting, After Gennaro Greco
Located in Cotignac, FR
A fine, large 18th century veduta capriccio scene with temple ruins after Gennaro Greco from the circle of Pietro Cappelli. The painting is presented in a more modern carved gilt woo...
Category
Baroque 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Grand Tour 18th Century Capriccio Painting Roman Ruins after Gennaro Greco
Located in Cotignac, FR
A fine, large 18th century veduta capriccio scene with temple ruins after Gennaro Greco from the circle of Pietro Cappelli. The painting is presented in a more modern carved gilt woo...
Category
Baroque 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Old oil on canvas "an Italian landscape" circle of Pierre Henri De Valenciennes
Located in Gavere, BE
Old oil on canvas glued on cardboard French school of the late 18th century, bearer fagot in a wooded landscape.
Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes studied painting at the Royal Academy of...
Category
French School 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Lorenzo Gramiccia (Venetian Master) - Pair of 18th century figure paintings
Located in Varmo, IT
Lorenzo Gramiccia (Cave 1702/1704 - Venice 1795) - Two Venetian interiors.
45 x 60 cm without frame, 55 x 70 cm with frame.
Pair of antique oil paintings on canvas, in carved and g...
Category
Rococo 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antonio Bellucci (Venetian master) - Early 18th century figure painting
Located in Varmo, IT
Antonio Bellucci (Venice 1654 - Soligo 1726) - Diana and Endymion.
122 x 152 cm without frame, 142 x 172 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a carved and gilded woode...
Category
Baroque 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Military Camp Scene and Battle. Pietro Graziani (XVII/XVIII century), entourage
Located in Firenze, IT
Military Camp Scene and Battle.
Pietro Graziani (XVII/XVIII century), entourage.
A pair ( two) of small paintings.
Antique XIX century frames in gilt wood.
In good condition.
Oi...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rococò Venetian painter - Early 18th century figure painting - Allegory
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian master (18th century) - Allegory of Vanity.
74.5 x 55.5 cm without frame, 83 x 65 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a gilded wooden frame.
Condition report...
Category
Rococo 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine Italian Old Master Oil Painting c. 1700's The Madonna Christ Child St. John
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Madonna, Christ Child and St. John
Italian Old Master, circa 1700's period
oil painting on canvas, unframed
Canvas: 28.5 x 24 inches
conditon: overall very good for its age, a fe...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vedutist Italian painter - 18/19th century landscape painting - View of Florence
Located in Varmo, IT
Florentine painter (18th-19th century) - View of Florence from Piazzale Michelangelo.
32 x 51 cm without frame, 42 x 63 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a gilded w...
Category
Naturalistic 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Baroque Italian painter - 18th century figure painting - Adam Eve in the garden
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (17th-18th century) - Adam and Eve.
172.5 x 124.5 cm without frame, 175.5 x 127.5 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a wooden frame.
- Monogram on t...
Category
Baroque 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nicola Cassisa A Pair Of Oil Paint Still Life With Vase Of Flowers 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Neapolitan painter Nicola Cassisa trained at the Belvedere, specializing in the representation of flower compositions, which the biographer De Dominici describes as 'handled', du...
Category
Rococo 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Paolo Monaldi Oil Painting Baroque Bamboccianti 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Thepainting accompanied by an expertise drawn up by prof Ferdinando Arisi that wrote:
This pilgrims' stop is a typical work of Paolo Monaldi active in Rome be...
Category
Baroque 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Animated Scene In The Kitchen, Oil On Parquet Panel, 18th Century Or Before
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Lively scene in the kitchen.
Northern School.
Oil on parquet panel, 18th century or earlier.
Old restoration of the panel.
Painting in good general condition.
19th century frame in w...
Category
Dutch School 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Painting The Visitation late 18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Venetian school of the late 18th century.
The large painting recounts the Gospel episode of the 'meeting between St. Elizabeth, pregnant with John the Baptist, and Mar...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of an elegant British lady with a white silk dress and a pearl necklace
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Portrait of an elegant British lady with a white silk dress and a pearl necklace. Professional door to door shipping included. Very good condition.
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of Barbara Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, with her dog
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Barbara Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (c. 1668 – August 1, 1721), was an English court official and aristocrat, known as the second wife of Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke. She ...
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine 18th Century Italian Oil Painting Dead Game with Still Life Flowers
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Dead Game Still Life with Still Life of Flowers
French partridges and hare.
Italian artist, 18th century
oil on canvas, framed in Rococo period sc...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine 18th Century Italian Oil Painting Exotic Birds with Still Life Fruit
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Exotic Birds with Still Life of Abundant Fruit
Italian artist, 18th century
oil on canvas, framed in Rococo period scrolled frame
framed: 24 x 38 inches
canvas: 22 x 35 inches
proven...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Aurora Dawn Reni 18th Century Paint Oil on canvas Old master Emilian school Art
By Guido Reni (Bologna 1575 - 1642)
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
The Dawn - AFTER Guido Reni (Bologna 1575 - 1642)
Late Baroque painter, 18th century
Oil on canvas (98 x 148 cm - Framed 108 x 159 cm)
This large painting depicts the young Apollo,...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Capriccio con scena storica dipinto attribuito a Jacob Van Hal
Located in Milan, IT
Jacob Van Hal, (Anversa, 1672 - 1750), attr.
Capriccio con scena storica
Olio su tela, cm 66 X 84
Con cornice, cm 74 x 91
L’opera, un olio su tela, raffigura una scena che fa rif...
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Margravine of Bayreuth 1725 Old Master Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Holywell, GB
Circle of Antoine Pesnes 1725 Margravine of Bayreuth Old Master Portrait
A delightful portrait of a young noble woman ascribed on a label verso as la margravine de Bayreuth, 1725. P...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Greek Textures by Marc Zimmerman - Contemporary Art
Located in Carmel, CA
Greek Textures - by Marc Zimmerman - Figures Landscape Art
This masterpiece is exhibited in the Zimmerman Gallery, Carmel CA.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Marc Zimmerman is a visionary artist...
Category
Contemporary 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine 18th Century British Portrait of an Aristocratic Lady, Large oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Circle of Thomas Hudson (1701-1779) British.
18th Century Bust Portrait of a Lady,
Oil on Canvas, Inscribed on a label verso,
canvas: 30" x 25" (76.2 x 63.5cm).
frame: 30 x 25 in...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Horse & Rider, 20th Century circle of SIR ALFRED JAMES MUNNINGS (1878-1959)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Horse & Rider, 20th Century
circle of SIR ALFRED JAMES MUNNINGS (1878-1959)
Large 20th Century scene of a white horse and rider, oil on board. Excellent quality and condition eques...
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Study Of Lions, 18th/19th Century by M C FEHR (German)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Study Of Lions, 18th/19th Century
by M C FEHR (German)
Large 18th 19th Century German School study of Lions before their den, oil on canvas by M C Fehr. Excellent quality and condi...
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painting Bathsheba at the Bath 18th-19th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. The large painting, echoes the pictorial modes of the 17th century but is of later date, and was made on a canvas applied over an older one.
The scene recounts the bib...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Allegory of Love, Cupid With Beauty in Fine Dress Carrying a Basket of Flowers
Located in Cotignac, FR
A late 18th Century oil on canvas laid on board of a young beauty in period costume carrying a basket of flowers on her head. Presented in a very fine gilt, period 'Directoire' frame...
Category
Romantic 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
18th century Italian figure painting - Portrait aphorism book- Oil on canvas
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (18th century) - Portrait of a gentleman with an aphorism.
92 x 68cm.
Oil on canvas, unframed.
- Iscribed on the book: "In the world there are more crazy men than ...
Category
Rococo 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th Century battle giuseppe Zais Battle Horses Smoke Oil on Canvas
Located in Sanremo, IT
If the fame of Giuseppe Zais ( Forno di Canale, 1709 - Treviso, 1781 ) has come down to our days for the quality of his country landscapes pervaded by riccesque and Arcadian inflec...
Category
Italian School 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Baroque Dutch painter - Early 18th century figure painting - Inn interior
Located in Varmo, IT
Dutch painter (early 18th century) - Party in a tavern by candlelight.
83.5 x 101.5 cm without frame, 106.5 x 125.5 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in an antique fra...
Category
Baroque 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th Century Venice Jacopo Fabris Venice Rialto Bridge Oil on Canvas Blue
Located in Sanremo, IT
Painting oil on canvas measuring 70 x 90 cm without frame and 82 x 102 cm with frame depicting View of the Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge.
The work under examination depicting a...
Category
Italian School 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th Century Earth Allegory Felice Cignani Putti Oil on Canvas Blue Green
Located in Sanremo, IT
Painting with a diameter of 130 cm and 160 x 160 cm with a marvellous frame depicting an 'allegory of the Earth' by the painter Felice Cignani ( Bologna 1660 - 1724 ).
An oil on ca...
Category
Italian School 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
18th Century Venice Italian School Chiesa dei Servi Venice Oil on Canvas Red
Located in Sanremo, IT
Painting, oil on canvas measuring 54 x 74 cm without frame and 67 x 87 cm with frame, depicting the Church of the Servi in Venice, of the Venetian school similar in style to Francesc...
Category
Italian School 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Giuseppe Nogari (Venetian Rococò master) - 18th century figure painting - Saint
Located in Varmo, IT
Giuseppe Nogari (Venice 1699 - Venice 1763) - San Rocco.
54.5 x 43.5 cm without frame, 69.5 x 59.5 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a carved and gilded wooden fram...
Category
Rococo 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ignaz Stern (1679-1748) Ritratto di dama Olio su Tela
Located in Pistoia, IT
Ignazio Stern, "Ritratto di dama alla toilette", olio su tela, prima metà del XVIII secolo.
Ignazio Stern (o Ignaz Stern e in italiano Ignazio Stella) nato a Mauerkirchen nel 1679 e...
Category
Rococo 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Allegory of Fertility" after Francesco Albani, sec. XVIIIth
Located in Pistoia, IT
"Fertility also called Charity," from the painting by Francesco Albani (1578-1660), 18th century, owned by Louis-Antoine Crozat Baron de Thiers (1700-1770).
This beautiful painting ...
Category
Italian School 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Baroque Italian painter - Set of four 18th century figure paintings - Evangelist
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (early 18th century) - Four Evangelists.
25.5 x 19 cm without frame, 29 x 22.5 cm with frame.
Ancient oil painting on panel. in wooden frames.
Condition report: In...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Landscape with Farm Animals & Figures
Located in Milford, NH
A fine 18th century Continental School landscape oil painting with animals including cows, horses, dogs, and chickens in a farm setting...
Category
Impressionist 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Antique Flemish 18th Century Oil Painting Swans Frightened by Dog in Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Swans Startled by Dog
Flemish Old Master, 18th century
oil on bevelled wood panel, framed
framed: 14.5 x 17 inches
panel: 10 x 13 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition:...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
18th century portrait of sisters Lady Catherine and lady Jane Brydges
By James Maubert
Located in Bath, Somerset
This large double portrait depicts the sisters Lady Catherine and Lady Jane Brydges, the daughters of John Brydges, the Marquess of Carnarvon (1703-1727). They are seated on a stone ledge within in an idealised park landscape with a stone fountain on one side and sumptuous silk drapery to the other. They hold a garland of flowers by a blue silk ribbon around a lamb seated between them, a representation of romantic pastoral simplicity which was popular in English painting at the time.
Oil on canvas in a period 'Lely' panel frame with attached title plates.
Canvas: 116 x 150cm (45 1/2 x 59in)
Frame size: 137 x 172cm (54 x 67 1/2in)
Provenance: By descent through the eldest daughter Catherine to the Hoskyns branch of the family to the present day, who by marriage were also the descendants of Sir Christopher Wren.
A photograph of the painting is held in the National Portrait Gallery archive in London, dated 1955 and noted as being the property of Sir John Hoskyns, who later became a prominent politician in Thatcher's government.
Catherine (1725-1807) and Jane (1727-1776) were the daughters of John Brydges, Marquess of Carnarvon, Viscount Wilton and heir apparent to the Duke of Chandos and Catherine Tollemarche, daughter of Lionel, 3rd Earl of Dysart. Their eldest daughter, Catherine, shown wearing the russet gown with a blue mantel, married firstly William Berkeley Lyon and secondly in 1753, Edwyn Francis Stanhope of Stanwell House, Middlesex, with whom she had two children, Edwyn Francis in 1754 and Catherine in 1755. Catherine Stanhope married Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, 6th Baronet of Harewood Park, Herefordshire in 1774.
The younger daughter Jane Brydges, shown wearing a yellow silk gown, married her cousin, James Brydges of Pinner, but had no children.
James Maubert was born in Dublin in 1666, the son of a French Huguenot.
He was the pupil of Gaspar Smitz, the Dutch born artist who specialised in portraits, flowers and fruits, who came to England shortly after the Restoration in 1660 and lived in Dublin from the mid 1660's until his death in 1668.
The diarist George Vertue, who knew Maubert and who relied on him as a source for certain anecdotes concerning artists that appear in his Notebooks, states ‘Mr Maubert had his first instruction in drawing and painting from him in Dublin’.
Maubert worked for the Bathurst family, the Herberts and painted portraits of the Duchess of Bolton...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
John Miers late 18th Century Georgian English silhouette portrait
Located in Harkstead, GB
A very finely detailed silhouette in very good condition by one of the truly great silhouette artists of the Georgian period.
John Miers (1758-1821)
Portra...
Category
English School 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Watercolor
Fire & Moonlight - Important 18th Century Old Master Oil Painting London Night
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Fire and Moonlight’ by Abraham Pether FSA (1752–1812).
The painting – which depicts an extensive moonlit view across the City of London with a cottage on fire in the foreground – w...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Two Sunny animated landscapes with travellers with a river view, a town beyond
Located in Gent, BE
Oil on panel
Comes with a certificate by dr. Jan De Maere
"In my opinion they are early works, inspired by the river views of Jan Griffier the Elder, the italianate coulisses by Dir...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Rococò Neapolitan painter - 18th century figure painting - Allegory of America
Located in Varmo, IT
Neapolitan painter (18th century) - Allegory of America.
76.5 x 64.5 cm without frame, 83 x 69.5 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a lacquered and gilded wooden fra...
Category
Baroque 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
18th century Portrait of a lady as Erato, the muse of poetry - Angelica Kauffman
By Angelica Kauffmann
Located in Antwerp, BE
18th century English school portrait of a lady, said to be Mrs. John Ruscombe of Colne, Lancaster, as the muse Erato
This very skilfully painted portrait depicts a lady as the muse Erato, playing the Lyre. Her eyes are filled with emotion and her lips are curved in a soft, delightful smile. Hinting at the love song she is composing? Erato is one of the nine Muses in Greek mythology. She is the muse of lyric poetry, love poetry, and mimicry. Erato is often depicted holding a lyre, symbolizing her association with music and poetry. She inspires poets and writers to create works that celebrate love, beauty, and human emotions.
Our painting was sold in the early 1900s as a work by Angelica Kauffman. Kauffman was an 18th-century Swiss Neoclassical painter who achieved significant success and recognition in a male-dominated art world. Born in Switzerland in 1741, she showed exceptional talent from a young age and received formal art training in Italy. Kauffman gained fame for her historical and mythological paintings, as well as her portraits, which were characterized by their grace, elegance, and classical influences. She was a founding member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London and enjoyed patronage from aristocrats and royalty throughout Europe. Kauffman's work contributed to the rise of Neoclassicism and she remains one of the most prominent female artists of her time.
Measurements:
Oil on canvas ca. 98 by 77cm and with the frame ca. 118 by 97 cm
Provenance:
Collection of Felix Gouled
American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, by 1937
Kende Galleries at Gimbel Brothers, Jay Gould...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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Mid-Century Americans Didn’t Know Antonio Petruccelli’s Name, but They Sure Knew His Art
The New York artist created covers for the nation’s most illustrious magazines. Now, the originals are on display as fine art.
Learn Why There Have Been So Many Great Women Painters
Featuring iconic works by more than 300 female artists, a new book makes a more than compelling case for casting off the patriarchal handcuffs that have bound the art historical canon for far too long.