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Art For Sale
Style: Victorian
Style: Old Masters
Antique Scottish Highland Loch Katrine in the Trossachs Summer Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Loch Katrine" by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950) signed, lower corner oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 19.5 x 27 inches Fine quality antique oi...
Category

Early 20th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fine large Victorian Signed English Oil Figures Entering Country Churchyard
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The English Country Churchyard by James Rudd (English 1821-1906) signed & dated 1889 oil on canvas, framed framed: 28.5 x 41 inches painting: 24 x 36 inches provenance: private colle...
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19th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Oil

Pair of Italian 18' century Paintings with Gardens
Located in Rome, IT
Pair of Italian 18' century paintings , oil on canvas with Venetian Palace gardens , antiques sculptures and various figures . Measurements with frame cm 75 x101
Category

Mid-18th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil

17th Century by Giovan Battista Discepoli Coronation of Thorns Oil on Panel
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Giovan Battista Discepoli, also called the "Zoppo from Lugano" [Castagnola (Lugano), Switzerland, 1590 - Lugano, Switzerland, 1654] Title: Coronation of Thorns Medium: Oil on panel D...
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Early 17th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Panel, Oil

View of Piazza San Marco, a tempera signed by Giacomo Guardi (1764 - 1835)
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed and localized on the verso : "Vedute di parte dalla Piazza dif.a alla Loggetta e cam panil parte della Zecca ed in lontan Proc.e vechie e parte della chiesa punto preso vic...
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Early 19th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Tempera

Nineteenth Century Victorian Marine Dutch River Harbour with Boats and Buildings
Located in ludlow, GB
Nineteenth Century Victorian Dutch River and Harbour Scene with Boats, and Buildings in background. A Signed Oil Painting on Wooden Panel that is Framed in original ornate Frame. Th...
Category

Late 19th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Oil

Animated fishing scene
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Golden wooden frame 64 x 82.5 x 7 cm
Category

Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil

Fine 18th Century Old Master Oil Painting Dead Game in Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Still Life with Dead Birds 18th Century Italian School oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 16 x 20 inches canvas: 13 x 17 inches provenance: privat...
Category

18th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil

Self-Portrait - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Self-Portrait is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This piece of art belongs to a late edition of the 19...
Category

19th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Engraving

Architecture on a Mediterranean Coast
By Francesco Guardi
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Italian Schools of the Late 18th Century, Circle of Francesco Guardi (1712-1793) Architecture on a Mediterranean Coast (2) Oil on canvas, 65 x 103 cm Provenance: Private collecti...
Category

Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil

Huge Spanish Signed Oil Children & Mother Playing in River Summer Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mother and children playing by the edge of a river J. Giralt Lerin (b.1907) Spanish signed oil on canvas ,framed canvas: 24 x 36 inches framed: 29.5 x 41.5 inches the painting is in ...
Category

20th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Oil

Besler Hand Colored Botanical Engraving of Wood Pink & Cottage Pink Flowers
Located in Alamo, CA
A 17th century hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Caryophyllus Maior Sylve Strisvarie Gatus" (Wood Pink & Cottage Pink Flowers) from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713. This engraving is presented in a silver and gold-colored wood frame with a green edge and three elaborate cream-colored French mats...
Category

17th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Engraving

Vintage Painting of Duke Street Kingston Jamaica By S.H. Geer
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Transporting oil painting on board of Duke Street Kingston Jamaica, executed in an impressionist style with houses and trees. Signed by noted American artist S. H. Geer and presented...
Category

Early 20th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Acrylic

Lord Howe Island White-Eye and others, Bird lithograph with hand-colouring, 1928
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Lord Howe Island White-Eye and others' Limited edition lithograph with original hand colouring by Henrik Gronvold. From Mathews 'The Birds of Norfolk and L...
Category

Early 20th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Lithograph

Fine Victorian Signed Oil Huntsman & Hounds taking Refreshments Village Tavern
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Singleton Jowett (British, 1878–1927) signed lower right corner The Warrington Museum in England has a comparable painting to this in...
Category

19th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Oil

The Large Village Fair
Located in Middletown, NY
Hamburg: Lippmann, 1895. Copperplate engraving on cream wove paper with a deckle edge, 10 1/8 x 13 1/2 inches (256 x 342 mm), full margins. In generally good condition with some lig...
Category

Late 19th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Engraving, Handmade Paper

Glencoe Scotland Majestic Highland Landscape with Sheep Signed British Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"After the Rain, Glencoe" Pearl Patterson (British, dated 2003) signed lower corner inscribed verso oil on board, framed framed: 16.5 x 20.5 inches board: 14 x 18 inches provenance: ...
Category

Early 2000s Victorian Art

Materials

Oil

Head of a Laughing Peasant
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on white laid paper, 1 5/8 x 1 1/2 inches (41 x 38 mm), thread margins. In excellent condition with a light pencil inscription on the verso. [Hollstein 6]
Category

17th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching

Ancient Roman Statue of a Horse - Original Etching by Carlo Nolli - 1700s
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman statue of a horse, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Carlo Nolli in the 18th ce...
Category

18th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Etching

Golden Eagle, Antique Bird of Prey Chromolithograph, circa 1895
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Golden Eagle - chromolithograph from an English natural history series. Monogram JGK lower left corner of the image. John Gerrard Keulemans (1842-1912) p...
Category

Late 19th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Lithograph

Fountains of Rome; Fontana e castello dell'Acqua
Located in Middletown, NY
Rome: Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi, 1625. Etching and engraving on cream laid paper, 8 3/8 x 11 1/4 inches (222 x 286 mm), full margins. In good condition with some light yellow discoloration in the margins and on the verso, the image area remains clean and bright. The inscription in the lower margin reads Paulus Quintus Pont. Maxim ... anno DNI MDCXII Pontif.s sui Septimo' and in the margin 'Fontana e castello dell'acqua Paola a S.Pietro Montorio sul Gianicolo, condotta da Paolo V, vicino a Bracciano, Architett.a di Giovanni Fontana', and signed at left 'G.B.Falda del. et inc.' and at right 'G.Iac.Rossi le stampa in Roma alla pace co priv. del SP', and the number '11' in the lower right corner. Printed in 1691. [Bartsch/Le Pientre graveur XXI.241.13] Book I, plate 11: Fountain of San Pietro in Montorio, from "Le fontane delle ville di Frascati nel Tusculano con li loro prospetti" ("The fountains of the Villas of Frascati in Tusculano and their prospects"); a set of four books on fountains published by Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi (Italian, Rome 1627–1691), after Giovanni Francesco Venturini (active ca. 1650–1700) and Giovanni Battista Falda...
Category

Early 17th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Laid Paper, Engraving, Etching

Piranesi 18th C. Etching "Reliquiae Theartri Pompejani" an Ancient Roman Theater
Located in Alamo, CA
This a framed Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) etching entitled "Reliquiae Theartri Pompejani" (Remains of the Theatre of Pompey) from "Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma" (The Campus Martius of Ancient Rome), published in Rome in 1762. It depicts the remains of an ancient theater in Rome with exposed seating and an arch still standing in the foreground. An inset shows an architectural side view of a portion of the structure. The etching is presented in an antiqued silver-colored wood frame with a cream-colored French mat. The frame measures 24" x 20.75" x 1.25". The print is in excellent condition. The Theatre of Pompey (Latin: Theatrum Pompeii, Italian: Teatro di Pompeo) was a structure in Ancient Rome built during the latter part of the Roman Republican era by Pompey the Great...
Category

Mid-18th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Etching

18th Century by Francesco Lavagna Pair of Flower Vases Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Francesco Lavagna (active in Naples in the mid-18th century) Title: Pair of Flower Vases Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: without frame 98 x 36 cm each - with frame 112 x 50 cm each...
Category

Early 18th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

“Lost Love”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very intricate silhouette cut out of black paper over white paper background by the Czech artist, Frederich Kaskeline. Signed lower right. Bearing inscription lower left. Circa 1920...
Category

1920s Victorian Art

Materials

Archival Paper

Very Large Classical Oil Still Life Study Of Fruit and Flowers
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Manner of Emilio Greco, 20th Century oil on board, framed framed: 24 x 29 inches board: 16 x 20 inches provenance: private collection, England The painting is in very good and presen...
Category

20th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil

17th Century by Pedro Nunez Portrait of a Child Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Pedro Nuñez de Villavicendio (Seville, Spain, 1644 - 1700) Title: Portrait of a child Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: without frame 41.5 x 33.5 cm - with frame 52 x 43.5 cm 19th century shaped and gilded wooden frame Expertise by Didier Bodart, art historian A Seville painter of noble origins, Pedro Nuñez de Villavicendio (1644-1700), the author of this pretty child portrait, was a Knight of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. He was a pupil of Murillo and, as a Knight of the Order of Malta, worked with Mattia Preti...
Category

Late 17th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Canvas, Oil

Erasmus of Rotterdam
Located in GB
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98 – 1543) was one of the greatest painters of the Northern Renaissance. Born in Augsburg, Germany, he was the son of Hans Holbein the Elder, also a pa...
Category

19th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Newspaper Boy
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
William Nicholson (1872-1949) Newspaper Boy 1897 Original Colour Lithograph Image27.5 x 24.5 cm Frame: 45.2 x 42.0 cm William Nicholson was born at Newark in 1872. He left to study in Paris in his late teens for six months at the Academie Julian before returning to England. In 1893 Nicholson married the painter Mabel Pryde and their first son Ben went on to become the famous painter and sculptor. Nicholson concentrated on printmaking with his brother-in-law James Pryde...
Category

1890s Victorian Art

Materials

Lithograph

Landscape with Cattle - Surrey - British Victorian art 19th century oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This charming Victorian landscape oil painting is by noted prolific exhibited British artist George William Mote. Mote was very fond of painting landscapes in Surrey and this is a pa...
Category

1880s Victorian Art

Materials

Oil

Equity and Diversity
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Let’s come together Let’s learn to love one another Learn to love your brother Learn to love your sister Love your neighbor One eye can’t see One ear doesn’t hear One hand can’t cla...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Old Masters Art

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Ink, Linocut

Posing Man - Etching by Nicholas Cochin - 1755
Located in Roma, IT
Posing Man is an etching realized by Nicholas Cochin in 1755. Good conditions with foxing on the margins. Signed in the plate. The etching was realized for the anatomy study “JOMB...
Category

18th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Etching

Set of 4 Hunting Scenes British Oil Paintings Signed - 4 x original paintings
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Set of Four (4) Hunting Scenes British School, 20th century signed Hallard 4 x oil on board, framed inscribed verso each framed: 8.5 x 6.5 inches each board: 7.5 x 5.5 inches proven...
Category

20th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Oil

Figures at the Tranquil Riverbank with Cottage & Boat Classic Landscape Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Tranquil Riverbank English School, late 19th century oil on canvas, framed Framed: 18.75 x 31 inches Canvas: 12 x 24 inches Provenance: private collection, UK Condition: very good co...
Category

Late 19th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Oil

Fine Antique Scottish Highlands Oil Painting Sunset over the Loch, signed, dated
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Jack Maurice Ducker (British, 19th/ 20th century), signed and dated 1919 Title: Sunset over the Scottish Highlands Medium: oil on canvas, framed Framed: 22 x 30 in...
Category

Early 20th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Oil

Eighteenth century Old Master drawing - St Jerome
Located in London, GB
Pen, ink and wash Framed dimensions: 9 ½ x 11 ¼ inches Drawn c. 1763 This small, powerful study shows St Jerome contemplating the bible with a cross and sk...
Category

18th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Ink, Pen

Self-Portrait - Royal Academy Founding Member, 18th Century
Located in London, GB
Francis Hayman RA 1708–1776 Self-Portrait Oil on oak panel Image size: 8 x 6¼ inches Contemporary gilt frame This newly discovered work is the earliest known self portrait by Francis Hayman, dated to the mid to late 1720’s. The small scale of the portrait gives it a strong sense of intimacy. Whereas clients would often dress themselves in their best clothes for a sitting, Hayman has portrayed himself in informal attire, with his shirt unbuttoned and a wig cap. Born in 1708 to a respectable Devonshire family, his training began at the tender age of ten under the tutelage of the historical painter Robert Brown, who was probably an uncle. By the 1730’s he is known to have been engaged in painting scenery for the popular theatres on Goodman’s Fields and Drury Lane. He established a studio on St Martin’s Lane, and demonstrated his versatility as one of the most important painters of his time in portraits, illustration and history painting. Indeed, he was one of the first English painters deemed to have the skill and proficiency to rival that of the foreign masters, such as Holbein and Kneller, who were brought in by the court to make up for the perceived shortcomings of the native artists. Led by William Hogarth, Hayman and other artists began to create a new movement in the English art world. Thomas Gainsborough was one of his pupils, whom he is said to have introduced to the more lascivious and debauched underbelly of London life. After mostly making his living as an illustrator, in the 1740’s Hayman was commissioned by the proprietor of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, Jonathan Tyers, to produce a series of four large celebratory canvases depicting British victories from the Seven Years War. His association with Tyers continued, and over the next ten years he produced a number of large decorative paintings...
Category

18th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oak, Oil Pastel

17th Century By Giuseppe Caletti The Court Jester From Dosso Dossi Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Beautiful original frame in carved and gilded wood. Oral expertise by Prof. Enrico Maria Dal Pozzolo.
Category

17th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Neapolitan Still Life "Flowers in a Glass Jug" Oil on Canvas in Frame
By Giacomo Recco (Naples 1603 - before 1653)
Located in Pistoia, IT
Attributed to Giacomo Recco (1603-1653), still life "Glass jug with flowers," oil on canvas in gilt frame. This fine canvas depicts a glass pitcher filled with flowers resting on a ...
Category

17th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Jesus Christ Expirant sur la Croix, Etching by Amand-Durand after Albrecht Durer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Amand-Durand, French (1831 - 1905) after Albrecht Dürer, German (1471 - 1528) Title: Jesus Christ Expirant sur la Croix Year: 1873 Medium: Heliogravure on wove paper ...
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1870s Old Masters Art

Materials

Engraving

Romantic Light 18th Century Dutch Oil Pastoral Scene Bergers Cattle by River
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pastoral Landscape Dutch painter, 18th century oil on canvas, framed in antique frame framed: 22 x 25 inches canvas: 18.5 x 22 inches Provenance: Private collection, France Condition...
Category

18th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil

Bronze Statue of Prince Albert Edward as a Sailor Boy
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
This statue is of Prince Albert Edward, eldest son of Queen Victoria, Prince of Wales, future King Edward VII (1841-1910) dressed in a sailor suit. After a very popular painting of the young prince done in 1846 by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-73) that is in the collection of the British Royal Family.
Category

1890s Victorian Art

Materials

Bronze

Rural English Landscape Sunrise with Plough Horse, Farmer & Dog, signed oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: signed by Spencer Coleman Title: Heading to the Fields Medium: oil on canvas, framed Framed: 24 x 19.5 inches Painting: 16 x 12 inc...
Category

Late 20th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Oil

Asklepios and His Followers
Located in Stockholm, SE
This captivating work belongs to Elias Martin’s later period, characterized by his exploration of historical, biblical, and mythological themes. As Mikael Ahlund, Director of the Gus...
Category

1810s Old Masters Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique Scottish Highlands Oil Sheep in Sunset Dramatic Scotland Glen Valley
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: F. E. Jamieson British (signed with the artists pseudonyn 'W. Richards'). Title: Pitlochry Medium: Oil on canvas, framed Size: framed: 18 x 26 inches canvas : 16...
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Early 20th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Oil

KPM porcelain plaque German ” Rest Of Holy Family During The Flight into Egypt
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Frame Size: Height: 12″ x Width: 14.25″ Frame Thickness: 2.75″ Picture Size: Height: 7.25″ x Width: 9.50″ Experience a moment of profound spirituality with the RPM German Porcela...
Category

19th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Porcelain

Portrait of Rebecca Octavia Dorothy Nash, Victorian Graphite Drawings
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, inscribed on original backing Image size: 6 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (16.5 x 14 cm) Mounted This is a delightful graphite drawing by the artist Joseph Nash that depict...
Category

Mid-19th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Paper, Graphite

COUNTRY SCENE -Italian School Landescape Rural- Italian Oil on canvas Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
Country scene - Pietro Colonna Italia 2008 - Oil on board cm. 30x40 Gold gilded wooden frame available on request In this wonderful oil on panel the painter portrays some washerwomen as they are doing their work on the banks of a watercourse. In the background a rural landscape. The painting inspires...
Category

Early 2000s Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Still Life - Salvatore Marinelli Oil on Canvas Italian Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
STILL LIFE - Oil on canvas cm.60x80 by Salvatore Marinelli, Italy 2002 Frame available on request from our workshop.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Old Masters Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Chemist
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas, signed in the lower right. Measures 36" x 41" including the frame. Johann Georg Meyer Von Bremen (German 1813-1886) was a genre painter. He was the son of master baker Johann Georg Meyer. His mother was strictly religious. From 1833 he studied at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts , which was led since 1826 by Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow, the son of the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow. In addition to Schadow, Karl Ferdinand Son was his teacher there. Meyer acquired the necessary craftsmanship skills to make a living from the sale of his paintings, but he was initially unable to do so. From 1841 to 1852 he maintained his own studio in Düsseldorf. On his travels to Brussels and Antwerp Meyer experienced the works of Peter Paul Rubens and Anthonis van Dyck. In 1851 he married the singer Julia Beer...
Category

19th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Oil

Jan Six by Pierre François Basan, after Rembrandt
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on thin laid paper laid down to mid-weight Japon paper, 9 5/8 x 7 9/16 inches (244 x 190 mm), narrow to thread margins. Lettered below the image in the lower right margin wit...
Category

Early 19th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Laid Paper, Etching, Handmade Paper

Portrait of a Young Man, Old Masters Etching after Raphael Sanzio da Urbino
By Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
Located in Long Island City, NY
Raphael Sanzio da Urbino, After by Alphonse Leroy, Italian (1483 - 1520) - Portrait of a Young Man, Year: circa 1858, Medium: Etching, Image Size: 10.75 x 8.5 inches, Size: 22 x ...
Category

1850s Old Masters Art

Materials

Etching

Portrait of Girl with Puppy - British Victorian portrait oil painting dog art
Located in Hagley, England
This Beautiful Victorian oil painting is attributed to Scottish master Sir George Reid. Painted circa 1870, the detail in the young girl's facial features and hair are just stunning,...
Category

19th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Oil

19th Century winter coaching oil painting of a stagecoach in a snowstorm
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
John Charles Maggs British, (1819-1896) Caught in a Snowstorm Oil on canvas, signed Image size: 10 inches x 16.75 inches Size including frame: 14.5 inches x 21.25 inches An atmosph...
Category

19th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique Scottish Highlands Oil Painting Sunset River Landscape with Mountains
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"A Golden Sunset" by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950) signed lower corner with pseudonym 'Joel Owen', dated 1928 oil painting on canvas, framed canvas: 20 x 30 inches framed: 26 x...
Category

Early 20th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fine Victorian Scottish Highlands Loch Scene, signed original oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
An Expansive Highland view By Charles Leslie (1839 - 1886) signed lower right and dated 1875 oil on canvas, framed size: 13.5 x 27.5 inches condition: very good and ready to be enj...
Category

19th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Oil

A dazzling Venetian Regatta Boat Study attributed to Alessandra Mauro
Located in PARIS, FR
This stunning Baroque study depicts a regatta boat, a type of vessel developed in eighteenth-century Venice for the regattas organized by the Serenissima during visits by royalty and princes. We propose to link this drawing to the work of Alessandro Mauro, an artist who specialized in this type of composition, as illustrated by a drawing from him at the Metropolitan Museum. 1. Description of the boat The greatest decorative fantasy reigns in this preparatory study, which blends mythological and exotic elements with references to ancient Egypt. Our drawing is probably an initial thought, destined to be refined and clarified later in pen and ink (as evidenced by the ink stain in the lower right). A quadriga of seahorses guided by Neptune stands at the stern of the boat, shown well above the waterline (perhaps to outline its empty volume). One of the seahorses is ridden by a newt, while Amphitrite lies at the feet of the sea god. The center of the boat is occupied by a vast baldachin resting on four atlantes and surmounted by a figure riding an animal (a dragon?). Three figures sit beneath the canopy, one of them on a griffin-shaped seat. This allusion to Egyptian antiquity echoes the winged sun (sometimes a symbol of the god Horus, as in the temple of Edfu in Egypt) that adorns the sides of the promontory on which this baldachin rests. Another flag-bearer figure crouches at the stern of the boat on a raised seat, on the reverse of which is a crowned mermaid whose arm, extended backwards, rests on a mascaron decorated with a radiant face (Helios?) and whose torso surmounts an elephant's head. The heads of the rowers and their oars are sketched all along the boat, whose sides are embellished with elongated naiads. 2. The Venetian regatta boats An exhibition held in 2013 at the Ca' Rezzonico (the Venetian eighteenth-century museum) paid tribute to these regatta boats through studies and prints depicting them. The regattas organized by the Serenissima in honor of visiting princes and sovereigns were among the most spectacular ceremonies in Venice. Some important artists of the 18th century contributed to the creation of these extravagant boats which were given exotic names such as bissona, malgarota or peota. The specialists in this field were Andrea Urbani and the brothers Alessandro and Romualdo Mauro. They were born into a family of theater decorators in Piedmont, but little is known about their detailed biography. Alessandro was the architect of the Dresden opera house and of the St. Samuel Theater in Venice (in collaboration with his brother Romualdo), but also worked as stagehand and set designer in Vienna, Rome and Turin. A drawing produced around 1737 from the Metropolitan Museum (7th photo in the gallery) bears witness to his activity as a regatta boat designer. This drawing is a much more elaborate version than the one presented here, having been entirely reworked in brown ink. However, a figure at the bow of the boat, executed solely in black chalk, still bears witness to a technique similar to that of our drawing. It is difficult to know whether the boat depicted in our drawing was a project for an actual boat or whether it remained in the planning stage, but the front of our boat (Neptune and the quadriga of seahorses ridden by a newt) bears several similarities to that of a parade boat depicted in the print published by Michele Marieschi entitled Regatta on the Grand Canal, between the Foscari and Balbi Palaces (last photo in the gallery). This print is dated 1741, which could confirm that our work dates from around 1740. The area between Neptune and the quadriga that precedes him on this strange paddle-boat appears to be partially submerged, confirming that the waterline of our boat was probably intended to be much lower than the one shown in our drawing. The Correr Museum’s collection holds one of the most important collection of engravings and drawings devoted to these specifically Venetian Baroque productions. These boats were intended to last the duration of a festival. Today, they are only documented by preparatory drawings or prints that testify to the sumptuousness of their decoration. This taste for regatta boats lasted throughout the Venetian eighteenth century, and the conception of regatta boats also attracted great masters such as Giambattista Tiepolo, Francesco Guardi or Giambattista Piranesi...
Category

Mid-18th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Chalk

Antique 19th century English landscape, Watermill, trees, mountain by a stream
Located in Woodbury, CT
R.Ellis English late 19th-century landscape of a Watermill by a Stream and a bridge. Original frame oils on card Signed and dated on the reverse and lower right. Ellis was a la...
Category

1890s Victorian Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Escuela española (XIX) - La sagrada familia
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
La obra no va firmada Se presenta sin enmarcar la obra El estado de la pintura es aceptable Medidas de la obra: 117 cm. de altura x 88 cm. de ancho
Category

Mid-19th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil

Snipe Shooting
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Samuel Alken Jnr (1784-1825) Snipe Shooting Signed 'S. Alken' Oil on canvas Painting Size - 12 x 16 1/2 in Framed Size - 17 x 21 1/2 in Samuel Alken Junior (1784–1825) Samuel Alken ...
Category

19th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Oil

19th century landscape farmyard scene horses oil painting John Frederick Herring
Located in York, GB
Charming 19th century landscape oil painting of a Farmyard scene by john Frederick Herring depicting a number of different animals including horses, chickens, goats, ducks and cows along with a farmer and his homestead. Oil on canvas, in heavy gilt frame behind glass with oval mount. Size of canvas, Height: 51cm Width: 61cm. Framed overall size Height: 81cm Width: 90cm approximately. signed This painting is in overall good condition. There is some age related craquelure throughout as to be expected (close up pics available on request) The original frame/slip shows some signs of age as to be expected including age related cracks and some minor losses which have been colour matched and regilded. This in no way detracting from this fine painting This painting is heavy and may need crating if shipping,this would need to be custom made and may cause delay in shipping John Frederick HERRING (1815-1907) John Frederick Herring Junior (1815 - 1907) was an English painter who is best known for his equine art. John F. Herring Jr...
Category

19th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil

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