Old Masters Art
OLD MASTERS
Encompassing centuries of change in Europe between 1300 and 1800, from booms of prosperity to bloody revolutions, Old Masters describes a wide range of artists. The informal term was derived from the title of an artist who trained in a guild long enough to become a master, such as Leonardo da Vinci, who studied in a Florence painters’ guild. However, Old Masters paintings, prints and other art is now used to refer to work made by any artist with a high level of skill in painting, drawing, sculpture or printmaking who worked during this era.
The 15th century’s expansive trade and commerce spread culture across borders. A vibrant period of art emerged, bolstered by studies of anatomy and nature that influenced a new visual realism. From Raphael and Michelangelo in the Renaissance to Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer in the Dutch Golden Age, artists expressed emotion, naturalism, color and light in new ways. El Greco and Paolo Veronese were leaders in the dramatic style of Mannerism, while Caravaggio and Peter Paul Rubens demonstrated the movement and meticulous detail of Baroque art.
Historically, most attention was concentrated on male artists, but recent research and exhibitions have elevated the impactful work of women such as Rachel Ruysch and Artemisia Gentileschi. In late-18th-century France, female artists like Adélaïde Labille-Guiard and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun were prominent names. Nevertheless, access to the academies and guilds was highly restricted for women, and even those able to establish practices were expected to adhere to portraits and still lifes rather than the grand history paintings being created by men.
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Style: Old Masters
Ancient Roman Relief - Original Etching by Vincenzo Campana - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Relief, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Campana in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate on the lowe...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Capital Letter T - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Capital letter T for the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
In very go...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Relief - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Relief, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by an anonymous artist in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate on the lo...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Capital Letter O for the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed-Etching-18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Capital letter O from the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
In very good condition, except for some...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Capital Letter S from the Antiquities of Herculaneum - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Capital letter S from the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
In very good condition, except for some...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Bust - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Bust, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Anonymous in the 18th century.
Monogrammed on the plate.
Good conditio...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Statue - Original Etching on Paper - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statue, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by F. Campana in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate, on the lower rig...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching, Paper
Ancient Roman Relief - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Relief, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by an anonymous Artista in the 18th century.
...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Bas-Relief - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Bas-Reliefs, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Campana in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate on the ...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
The Assumption of the Virgin
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
Unidentified collector’s mark “D.G.R,” lower right (Lugt 757b)
Wilhelm Suida (1877–1959), New York; by descent to:
Robert L. and Bertina Suida Manning, New York, until 1996
Private Collection, USA
This impressive drawing of the Assumption of the Virgin is the work of the Genoese artist Giovanni Battista Paggi. The son of a nobleman, Paggi received a humanist education and was a self-taught artist. According to Paggi’s first biographer, Raffaele Soprani, it was only after encountering Luca...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Ink, Paper, Pen
Capital Letter for the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed-Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Capital letter for the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed, original etching from the end of the 18th Century, made by Various Old Masters.
In very good condition, except for some st...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Relief - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Relief, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by an anonymous artist in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate on the lo...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
The White Arab - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The White Arab is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand after an etching by Rembrandt dated 1630. This specimen belongs to an edition of the late 19th ...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Engraving
Eighteenth-century Irish portrait of the Rev. Henry Dabzac
By Hugh Douglas Hamilton
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper, oval
9 x 7 ¼ inches; 230 x 185 mm
Inscribed on the verso:
‘The Revd Henry Dabzac D.D./ late Senior Fellow of/ Trinity College Dublin/ ever to be lamented by all that knew/ Him. Extensive learning, zeal, gently tempered/ by a spirit of charity & above all, a strong/ faith & a piety deservedly gained/ the character of a great and good man./ This exceptional man died 12th May 1790/ This picture was his give to Jane [Mary] Crofton, his sincerely [missing] sister.’
Collections:
Rev. Dr Henry Dabzac gift to his sister, Jane Crofton (d.1797);
Sir Hugh Crofton (1763-1834);
By descent to 1990;
Private collection, Dorset to 2020.
Literature:
Robert Staveley, Traces of Past and Present, Dublin, 1895, p.74;
Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800, online edition, no.J3751247
This characteristic pastel portrait by Hugh Douglas Hamilton was made early in his career; it depicts precisely the kind of education, well-connected Irish sitter who fuelled his success. The Reverend Henry Dabzac was from a distinguished Huguenot family, a celebrated academic historian, Dabzac received the Donegall lectureship in 1764 and from 1785 was Librarian and Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. According to his earliest biographer, Hamilton was the son of a peruke-maker based in Crow Street, Dublin. As Anne Hodge has pointed out, this places Hamilton’s father at the heart of the city: Crow street was a narrow thoroughfare formed part of the busy warren of streets bordered by the old Houses of Parliament and Trinity College at one end, and by Dublin Castle at the other. It is perhaps telling that in this early portrait, Hamilton shows Dabzac in a splendid powdered wig and his clerical bands. In 1754 Hamilton was apprenticed to James Mannin, a ‘pattern drawer’ who two years later was appointed master of the school of ornament at the Dublin Society’s drawing school, run by Robert West. Here Hamilton took the first prize in the 1755 competition, winning a premium of £1/16/. Hamilton developed a popular and profitable method of making pastel likenesses of sitters in a distinctive oval format. Hamilton developed a technique of using a sharpened pastel to hatch shaded areas of the features and, in the case of this portrait of Dabzac, the white powdered wig, which is drawn with particular care. In 1764 Hamilton moved to London where this small, oval pastels proved...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Pastel
The Martyrdom of the Santi Quattro Coronati
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
Private Collection, UK
After initial training under Justus Suttermans and Vincenzo Dandini, in 1673 Anton Domenico Gabbiani embar...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Chalk, Paper, Ink, Pen
Speaking of Ladies Roses - Original Lithograph by J.J. Grandville - 1852
Located in Roma, IT
Speaking of Ladies Roses is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper realized by J.J. Grandville from Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, 1852. Published by Manesq ...
Category
1850s Old Masters Art
Materials
Lithograph
Ancient Roman Statue - Etching by Ferdinando Campana - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statue, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by P. Campana in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate, on the lower rig...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Statue - Original Etching by by Francesco Cepparuli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statue, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Francesco Cepparuli in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate on the l...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roma Fresco - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roma Fresco, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
Good condition.
Bottom right and left the name of t...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Capital letter A from the Antiquities of Herculaneum - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Capital letter A from the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
In very good condition, except for some...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Statue - Original Etching by R. Casanova - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statue, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Casanova in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate, on the lower left....
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Capital Letter for the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed-Etching -18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Capital letter for the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
In very good condition, except for some st...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Statue - Original Etching by Fernando Strina - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statue, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Fernando Strina in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate on the lower...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Fresco - Original Etching by Giovanni Morghen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Giovanni Morghen in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good condi...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Capital letter P from the Antiquities of Herculaneum - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Capital letter P from the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
In very g...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Old Master Print Heads of Two Apostles after Raphael
By (after) Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
Located in Rochester, NY
Early 19th century print on laid paper. Two apostles after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino). Good color. Some subtle wrinkles to the paper. Framed.
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Paper
Ancient Roman Statues - Original Etching by Giovanni Morghen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statues from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Giovanni Morghen in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate.
Good cond...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Statue - Original Etching by Vincenzo Campana - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statue, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Campana in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate on the lowe...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Capital letter U from Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed-Etching-18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Capital letter U from the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
In very good condition, except for some...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Capital Letter for the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed-Etching -18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Capital letter for the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
In very good condition, except for some st...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Relief - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Relief, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by an anonymous artist in the 18th century.
...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Relief - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Relief, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by an anonymous artist in the 18th century.
...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Zittende Jongeman Met Een Tas - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Zittende jongeman met een tas is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand after an etching by Rembrandt dated 1650. This wonderful piece of art belongs to...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Engraving
Ancient Roman Bust - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Bust, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
Good condition.
In the lower and middle part there is the inscription "is the si...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Statue - Etching by Vincenzo Aloja - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statue, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Aloja in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate on the lower ...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Self-portrait - Engraving after Rembrandt -19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Self-portrait is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized after an etching by Rembrandt dated 1645. This wonderful piece of art belongs to an edition of the late 19th century.
...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Engraving
Ancient Roman Frescoes - Original Etching after Nicolò Vanni - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Frescoes, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized after a design by Nicolò Vanni in the 18th century.
Signed on the plat...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Capital letter I from the Antiquities of Herculaneum - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Capital letter I from the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
In very good condition, except for some...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Capital Letter for the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed-Etching-18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Capital letter for the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
In very good condition, except for some st...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Bas-Reliefs - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statues, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Campana in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate on the lowe...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Statue - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statue, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by anonymous artist in the 18th cent...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Bas-Reliefs - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Bas-Relief, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Campana in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate on the l...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Bust - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Bust, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
Good condition.
Units of measurements typical of the period in the lower center...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Bust - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient ROman Bust, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
Good condition.
Units of measurements typical of the period in the lower center...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Bust - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Bust,, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
Good condition.
Units of measurements typic...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Bust - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Bust, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
Good condition.
Units of measurements typical of the period in the lower center...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Cupid And Animals - Etching by Carlo Nolli - 18th Century
By Carlo Nolli
Located in Roma, IT
Cupid And Animals - Ancient Roman Fresco from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Carlo Nolli in the 18th century.
Signed on the p...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Heads of Animals - Original Etching by John Barlow - 1810
By John Barlow
Located in Roma, IT
Heads of animals is an original artwork realized by John Barlow (1759 - 1810).
Original Etching from J.C. Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote...
Category
1810s Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
FINE 18th CENTURY OLD MASTER CHALK DRAWING - ROMANESQUE FIGURES INTERIOR SCENE
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 18th century
Title: Classical figures within an interior.
Medium: chalk on paper, mounted.
Size: drawing: 11.5 x 13.5 inches
Provenance:...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Chalk
Turkish Funeral.
By Marius Bauer
Located in Storrs, CT
A Turkish Funeral. 1889. Etching. Wisselingh 60. 3 3/4 x 5 1/2 (sheet 8 3/4 x 11 7/8). Edition 100, #9. A richly inked impression printed on Strasbourg cream laid paper. Printed on...
Category
Late 19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Statue - Etching by Ferdinando Campana - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statue, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Ferdinando Campana in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate, on the l...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Statue - Original Etching by Vincenzo Aloja - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statue, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Aloja in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate on the lower ...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
Good condition.
Units of mea...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Busts - Etching by Vincenzo Campana - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Busts, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Campana in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate on the lower...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Character - Etching - 17th century
Located in Roma, IT
Character is an etching realized by a Flemish artist of 17th century.
The little picture is in good conditions except for lack of paper on the edges and left corner.
Small inscript...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Portraits of the Hon. Mary Shuttleworth and Anna Maria, 9th Baroness Forrester
Located in London, GB
THE HON. MARY SHUTTLEWORTH, NÉE COCKBURN (D. 1777)
and her sister
ANNA MARIA, 9TH BARONESS FORRESTER (D. 1808)
Pastel and gouache on paper laid on canvas, on their original backb...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Gouache, Pastel
Portrait of the Duke D'Urbino - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Duke D'Urbino is an original artwork realized by Thomas Holloway (1748 - 1827).
Original Etching from J.C. Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Know...
Category
1810s Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Frescoes - Etching after N. Vanni - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Frescoes, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized from a design by Nicolò Vanni in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
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