Frank Brissot

Frank Brissot (Act.1879-1881) - Watercolour, Under a Tree with Sheep

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Rural scene in watercolors. Presented in a gilt-effect frame with card mount. Unsigned. On watercolour paper.

A original watercolour painting by Ernest George (1839-1922), depicting a busy thoroughfare in the coastal city of Oran. The middle eastern study has been...

A delightful watercolour showing a herd of sheep grazing an area of rough moorland. Well presented in a gilt frame with acanthus and foliate mouldings. I...

A delightful 19th century watercolour scene depicting a man and his horse being greeted by a woman outside of an in. The quaint half-timbered building st...

This very modern drawing presents a view of Ariccia, a small town 25 kilometres south-east of Rome. The Palazzo Chigi (in which the film-maker Luchino Visconti would film a large part of The Leopard a century later) and the adjoining church are seen from the bottom of the ravine that surrounds the town. This drawing is a moving testimony to the attraction of the city for artists of the Romantic period, who established in Ariccia a vivid artists' colony. 1. Achille Bénouville...

Neapolitan gouaches appeared in the eighteenth century when tourism in the Naples area was developing: the discoveries of Herculaneum and Pompeii made this city a mandatory stop on the Grand Tour, the journey made by wealthy Europeans to complete their education. Generally small in size for ease of transport and affordable in price, these gouaches were the ideal travel souvenir that these tourists of the early days were bringing back to capture the idyllic landscapes they had discovered during their journey and to share them with family and friends upon their return at home. The Bay of Naples and the eruptions of Vesuvius are the favourite themes of these views. Here we have a view of the Ovo Castle, which was rebuilt on the island of Partenope, in the middle of the Bay of Naples and about a hundred metres from the shore by the Normans in the 12th century on antique ruins...

'Fall Fog, Approaching'. Contemporary landscape painting, Cornwall Original Artwork, Unframed _________________ Heavy skies moving in over the autumnal landscape of West Cornwall: a ...

Achille Vianelli (Porto Maurizio 1803 - Benevento 1894), In the Port of Gaeta Watercolor and tempera on paper 24 x 36 cm signed and dated 1883 lower left.