Leo Primavesi

Young Italian woman in dark costume

c. 1890

Leo Primavesi (1871 Cologne - after 1937 ): Heartfelt pleading Neapolitan, 1896, Pen drawing Technique: Pen drawing on Paper Inscription: monogrammed and dated in the centre left: ...

Leo Primavesi (1871 Cologne - after 1937 ): The blue hour Violin players studying music, 1899, Watercolor Technique: Watercolor on Paper Inscription: Lower right monogrammed: "LF"....

Trajan Wallis (1794 Florence - 1892 ): The Roman consul Cornelius Scipio refuses to be rescued by his son, 1814, Pencil Technique: White heightened P...

Trajan Wallis (1794 Florence - 1892 ): Robe study, 19th century, Pencil Technique: Pencil on Paper Date: 19th century Description: Watermark: Three moons Provenance: From the es...

Trajan Wallis (1794 Florence - 1892 ): Study after the artist's hand, 19th century, Pencil Technique: Pencil on Paper Date: 19th century Provenance: From the estate of the artist....

Trajan Wallis (1794 Florence - 1892 ): Garment Study as Ancient Costume Drapery, 19th century, Charcoal Technique: Charcoal on Paper Date: 19th century Provenance: From the estate of the artist. Verso: numbered: 20"" Keywords: Academy study, antique robe, belt, female robe study, antique drape...

German or Swiss School, probably Circle of Christoph Nathe (1753-1808)), around 1800; beautiful old master drawing/ aquatint, inscribed "P 50/ 1871 gekauf...

Unknown Artist, French School 18th Century, Circle of Mallet? Scene taken from the Decamerone. Old Master Drawing

Italian Artist; Detailled and impressive old master drawing with the view Naples. Very fine Drawing with white heighting.

Fine drawing in pencil, oval format. Circle of Angelika Kauffmann. The subject is not clear. It is Amor with his arrows and perhaps Venus with a sp...

soft pastel on toned archival sanded paper signed and dated bottom left this work is part on an ongoing series bt the artist depicting women with floral bouquets

Antique Horse Study "Heads, Hooves and Rump, 1838" Wouterus Verschuur (Dutch, 1812-1874) Pencil on paper Signed and Dated "W Verschuuur 1838" 10 x 6 1/2 (17 1/2 x 14 frame) inches In his time Wouterus Verschuur was an acclaimed and celebrated painter of horses. Through careful observation he learned to capture their physique and movement to perfection. As a true-born romanticist he was also interested in their character, thereby painting powerful carthorses in their stable, thoroughbred saddled horses during an afternoon ride or harnessed horses in action. He was born to an Amsterdam jeweler and received his training from the landscape and cattle painters Pieter Gerardus van Os and Cornelis Steffelaar. As part of this education Verschuur had to copy works by the 17th century painter Philips Wouwerman. Like Wouwerman, Verschuur's subjects consist mostly of stable scenes, landscapes with horses and coastal landscape. These works reflect the enduring influence of the northern Baroque masters on nineteenth century art, revealing the artist's close study of his Dutch and Flemish predecessors harking back to Peter Paul Rubens. Showing talent from a very early age, at 15 Verschuur had a painting exhibited at the "Exhibition of Living Masters" at Amsterdam in 1828. In 1832 and 1833 he won the gold medal at the annual exhibition at Felix Meritis. In 1833 he was appointed a member of the Royal Academy in Amsterdam. In 1839 he joined the artists' society, Arti et Amicitiae. His reputation was also considerable abroad. He was often featured in the annual exhibitions which travelled the large European cities at that time. In 1855 Napoleon III purchased one of his paintings at the Exposition Universelle* in Paris. The Verschuur horse revels in its physicality, like a quintessential Baroque horse...