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Paintings For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Period: Early 1900s
This Week's Listings Only
19th Century Female Boston School Public Gardens Swan Boat Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed illegibly. Appears to read "Harriet .....". Very nicely painted and a wonderful subject. Ha...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th century French painters oil View of Venice from a canal
Located in Woodbury, CT
Edouard Jacques Dufeu, born in Marseille on March 27, 1836, and died in Grasse on December 1, 1900, is a French painter and engraver.Hailing from a family originally from Egypt, Dufe...
Category
1880s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
J. Urban - Late 19th Century Oil, Still Life, Fruit & a Pheasant
Located in Corsham, GB
A large late 19th century still life of fruit, captured alongside a freshly shot pheasant. Signed' J. Urban' to the lower left. On canvas on stretchers.
Category
Late 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
OLD MASTER LARGE OIL PAINTING High Quality 19th CENTURY Catch Gold Gilt Frame
Located in Ferndown, GB
OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING High Quality 19th CENTURY The Catch GGF
Description
OLD MASTER LARGE OIL PAINTING
19th Century
NEW COLLECTION Of RARE PIECES OF ENGLISH HISTORY
“Very Goo...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
18th century french painting GREUZE Portrait of a young girl Oil on canvas
By Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Located in PARIS, FR
French school of the 18th century or the beginning of the 19th century After Jean-Baptiste GREUZE Tournus, 1725 – Paris, 1805 Oil on mounted canvas 46 x 38 cm (63.5 x 55 cm with the ...
Category
Early 19th Century French School Paintings
Materials
Oil
Late 19th century Bunny Rabbits
Located in San Francisco, CA
Charming 19th century oil on canvas of bunny rabbits. The painting appears to be unsigned. It measures 15 inches wide by 10 inches high. The period frame...
Category
19th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Figure on a Path. An English landscape signed O T Clark. Oil on canvas
Located in St. Albans, GB
Octavius Thomas CLARK
Oil on canvas
Picture Size: 24 x 42" (60 x 105cm)
Outside Frame Size: 32 x 50" (80 x 125cm)
Signed bottom left
An impressive example of O. T. Clark's work. Su...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hubert Henrard - 19th Century Belgian Still Life of wildflowers
Located in London, GB
HUBERT HENRARD
(Belgium 1816-1898)
Still Life with Cornflower and Harebells
Signed l.r.: Hubert Henrard
Oil on canvas
Framed
25 by 20.5 cm., 10 by 8 in.
(frame size 41.5 by 36.5 c...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ancient View of the Bay of Naples - Oil Painting - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
View over the Bay of Naples is an orginal old master artwork realized by Master of Northern Europe School of the second half of 19th Century.
Mixed colored oil on canvas.
Relined....
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape with house
By Victor Rousseau
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Victor Rousseau (Belgian, 1865-1954)
Title: Landscape with house
Year: Circa 1910
Medium: Oil on cardboard
Board size: 6 x 7...
Category
Early 19th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
OIL PAINTING Small by William R Wall (NAVY ADMIRALTY 19th CENTURY PIECE
Located in Ferndown, GB
OIL PAINTING SMALL William Wall (NAVY ADMIRALTY 19th CENTURY
Very good condition for age , (see pictures)
FINE RARE MARTINE PAINTING ORIGINAL
19th Century OLD MASTER STYLE OIL PAI...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sheep in Landscape Loch Restil Glen Croe 1895 - British Victorian oil painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely British Victorian landscape oil painting is by artist William M Davies. It was painted in 1895 and the location, inscribed verso, is Loch Restil Glen Croe in Scotland. In...
Category
1890s Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil
HUGE OIL PAINTING By MAJOR John E .Bale FINE MASTER 19th Century BRITISH SCHOOL
Located in Ferndown, GB
OIL PAINTING SIGNED OLD FINE MASTER PAINTER 19th Century BRITISH SCHOOL
Fine Original Antique 19th Century British OLD MASTER
OIL PAINTING
GOLD GILT FRAME
NEW COLLECTION Of RARE ...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Dandy a Salon in Paris 19th Century portrait of a young man French painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A wonderful depiction of a dapper Parisian dandy, dating from 1848. I love his air of decadence! It is a work by F de Korff, a mysterious French aristocratic portrait artist who had ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Young Oriental Woman Looking at the Mirror-Oil on Canvas - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
A young woman is an original modern artwork realized in Late 19th Century.
Mixed colored oil on canvas.
The artwork depicts a young woman with veil and mirror.
Unreadible signatur...
Category
19th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Oil Painting Race Horse "Lord Lyon" Triple Crown Winner Harry Hall 1866
Located in Portland, OR
An important oil on canvas painting by the celebrated equestrian artist, Harry Hall (1814-1882), of the racehorse "Lord Lyon", 1866.
Hall was the most important equestrian artist of ...
Category
1860s English School Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nicely Framed Detailed American School Antique Beach Scene Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted early 1900s American impressionist beach scene. Oil on board. Framed. Signed verso. Great colors and very well painted. Excellent ready to hang condition.
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Italian Mountainous River Landscape - French 19th Century Neo Classical art
Located in London, GB
This stunning Neo Classical French 19th century landscape oil painting is by acclaimed French artist Jean Victor Bertin. He was also an early proponent of sketching out doors and dir...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil
French school Provence landscape Oil painting Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️Landscape of the Pyrenees ⬅️
This lovely artwork is landscape painting...looks to a Vincent Van Gogh painting
⭐Structural Analysis⭐
The painting depicts a river flowing through...
Category
Early 1900s Tonalist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Gesso, Wood Panel, Stretcher Bars
Still Life with Flowers on Marble Ledge - British 19th century art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This stunning 19th century still life floral oil on panel painting is by noted still life female Norwich School artist Emily Stannard. Emily Stannard and her niece Eloise Harriet Stannard are nowadays considered to be among the most accomplished British women still life painters of the 19th century. Stannard is associated with the Norwich School of painters. She also travelled to Holland to study Dutch art and was given permission to copy Jan van Huysum's work which was then highly praised. She had a long and distinguished career as an artist and many of her works are house in Norfolk Museums. Painted circa 1840, this lovely composition is a naturalistic floral arrangement in an urn on a marble ledge. The flowers are a mix of whites, pinks and blues with some geraniums, roses, daisies and mallow. There is a beautifully detailed dragonfly and butterfly as well as a little snail on the marble ledge. One side of the background is darker than the other which shows of the flowers against it to great effect. The colours are vibrant and brush work detailed. This painting is a fantastic example of Stannard's work and clearly shows how well she deserved her superb reputation as being one of the most accomplished female 19th century still life painters.
Provenance: Oscar and Peter Johnson Gallery, London
Condition. Oil on panel, 20 inches by 15 inches and in good condition.
Frame. Housed in a beautiful gilt swept cradled frame, 27 inches by 22 inches and in good condition.
Emily Stannard (née Emily Coppin; 8 February 1802 – 6 January 1885), who from 1826 called herself (even during her long widowhood) Mrs Joseph Stannard, was a British still life painter. She was associated with the Norwich School of painters, Britain's first provincial art movement. Along with her niece Eloise Harriet Stannard, she is considered to be the most accomplished British female still life artist of the 19th century. Stannard was born in Norwich of artistic parents. In 1820, she travelled with her father Daniel Coppin to the Netherlands to study the paintings of Jan van Huysum and other Dutch masters, an episode which influenced her artistic style. She married the Norwich artist Joseph Stannard in 1826, but was widowed four years later. She painted until she was in her eighties, mainly depicting paintings of flowers in vases...
Category
1840s Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of the Long-Haired Black Labrador, 19th Century, English School
Located in Firenze, IT
Portrait of the Long-Haired Black Labrador, 19th Century, English School
This distinguished portrait of a long-haired black Labrador is attributed to the circle of John Ferneley (18...
Category
19th Century English School Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School 19th Century Signed Young Girl Portrait Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American portrait of a young girl by Edward S Annison. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring 11.5H x 8.25L.
Category
Early 1900s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge Victorian Oil Painting by Famous Artist Portrait Country Girl in Harvest
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Gleaner
by Charles Sillem LIDDERDALE (British, 1831-1895)
signed & dated 1890
oil painting on canvas,
framed in what we believe to be the original frame
framed: 51.5 x 37.5 inch...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Early 20th century Modern British Impressionist portrait of a mother and child
Located in Woodbury, CT
This exquisite early 20th-century oil on panel by Dorothea Sharp captures the timeless and universal bond between mother and child in a tender Impressionist style. Painted circa 1900...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Victorian Marine Seascape Large Oil Painting of Pure Seas and Shimmering Light
Located in ludlow, GB
Victorian Marine Seascape Large Oil Painting of Pure Seas and Shimmering Light by the absolute Master of Pure Seas Paintings. This is a beautiful, ethereal work by Henry Moore (THE Henry Moore and not the famous Sculptor!).
The seascape we have for sale is an exquisite example of Moore’s sea-painting (he began painting the sea in the late 1860s), this, produced at the height of his fame and talents, it was painted in 1891. In it he captures the rolling waves as they catch the light and conveys a cool beauty within this deceptively simple composition. There may be a hint of a vessel in the background but maybe it is a trick of the light!! The seagulls dance in the foreground.
Moore manages to straddle two enormous art...
Category
19th Century Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil
Breeze after a Bathe - 19th Century Impressionist Oil Painting of Girls on Beach
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘A Breeze after a Bathe’ by Walter Duncan ARWS (1847-1932).
The painting – which depicts three young Victorian ladies and their dogs on Bournemouth beach after a swim – is signed b...
Category
1870s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Framed Late 19th Century Oil - Two Friends Fishing
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming late 19th century oil painting depicting two gentlemen fishing in an idyllic river location. The composition has been well presented in a contemporary gilt frame with inte...
Category
Late 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of an Enchanting Young Girl Wearing a Garland of Morning Glory Flowers
By James Holland
Located in West Sussex, GB
Attributed to James Holland (1799 -1870) and William Henry Hunt (1790-1864)
A Portrait of a Young Girl Wearing a Garland of Morning Glory Flowers
Oil on canvas: 17 ½ x 18 in. Frame: 23 ½ x 24 in. Circa 1820
An enchanting head and shoulders portrait of a young girl wearing a white shift...
Category
Early 19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Paintings
Materials
Oil
OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING High Quality 19th CENTURY Calm Seas Gold Gilt Frame
Located in Ferndown, GB
OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING High Quality 19th CENTURY Cram Seas GGF
Description
OLD MASTER LARGE OIL PAINTING
19th Century
NEW COLLECTION Of RARE PIECES OF ENGLISH HISTORY
“Very Goo...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Petit Thinker
Located in Greenwich, CT
A student of the great French academic Bouguereau, Lobrichon has done a moving and entrancing depiction of a young girl mid-gaze. Beautifully painted and done in a circular format t...
Category
1860s Barbizon School Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer Shade - Large 19th Century Oil Painting English Yorkshire River Landscape
By Henry Dawson
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Summer Shade’ by Henry Dawson R.B.A. (1811-1878).
The painting – which depicts cattle in the shade of a large tree on the river Ribble in North Yorkshire – is signed by the artist...
Category
1860s English School Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hidden Valley, San Anselmo, Marin County, California
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jack Wisby– American (1869 - 1940)
Title: Hidden Valley, San Anselmo, Marin, California
Year: 1909
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 20 x 28 inches.
Fram...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine Large 19th Century Rural Traditional Landscape Signed Oil Painting Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Country lane
by Frans Hopfner (1840-1893) German
signed oil on canvas, framed
framed: 23.5 x 41.5 inches
canvas: 18 x 36 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: very...
Category
19th Century Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Torera: the Spanish Girl who could take on a bull latin art nouveau period oil
Located in Norwich, GB
My analysis of this striking art nouveau period painting evolved as I studied it. Initially, I thought it was simply a portrait of a dashing, stylish, somewhat androgynously dressed ...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
James - A Brindle Scottie Terrier. Antique oil painting on canvas
Located in St. Albans, GB
Wright BARKER
Exhibited 1885 - 1935
Canvas Size: 20 x 26" (50 x 65cm)
Outside Frame Size: 29 x 35" (72.5 x 87.5)
He was a figure and animal painter who was based originally in Bradford, where he lived until 1885, when he moved to Edwinstowe, near Mansfield, Nottingham. In 1901 he moved to Hampstead and then back north to Harrogate where he stayed until his death. In his later years he became a picture dealer, but in his will he referred to himself as ‘animal painter’.
Barker became a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1896. Although he called himself an animal painter he is also known to have painted ‘Roman Maidens...
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil
English Naive 19th Century - Cow in a stable interior
Located in London, GB
The English Naive school of the 19th century works are characterized by a simple, direct, and unschooled approach to painting. While not a formal “school” with organized membership, ...
Category
19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Mrs William Tisdall Elsie Gardiner - British Edwardian oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb large British Edwardian exhibited portrait oil painting is by noted artist George Spencer Watson. It was painted in 1909 and exhibite...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine 19th Century French Oil Painting Madonna & Child Carved Wood Scrolled Frame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Madonna & Child
French School, 19th century
presented in carved wood scrolled frame
oil on canvas, framed
frame: 27 x 20 inches
canvas: 15.5 x 13 inches
provenance: private colle...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Sunset, Indian Summer" DeWitt Clinton Boutelle, Hudson River School Landscape
Located in New York, NY
DeWitt Clinton Boutelle
Sunset, Indian Summer, 1848-49
Signed and dated lower left
Oil on canvas
12 x 16 inches
DeWitt Clinton Boutelle was born in Troy, New York. He moved to Phil...
Category
1840s Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Flowers
Located in Milford, NH
A nicely detailed still life with flowers in a blue vase by French artist Eugene Henri Cauchois (1850-1911). Cauchois was born in Rouen, France, was a student of Duboe, Cabanel and Q...
Category
Late 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Dunkeld, Perth
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Alfred de Breanski Sr is one of the finest plein art artists of the Scottish Highlands. Renowned for capturing the fleeting light of sunset and sunrise, de Breanski masters layers an...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Market by Candlelight by Petrus van Schendel
Located in New Orleans, LA
Petrus van Schendel
1806-1870 Belgian
A Market by Candlelight
Signed and dated “P. van Schendel 1847 / Bruxelles” (lower right) and "P. van Schendel / Bruxelles" (en verso)
Oil ...
Category
19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Late 19th Century English portrait of an English Jack Russell called Fritz
By John Emms
Located in Woodbury, CT
Early 20th Century English portrait of an English Jack Russell, Called Fritz.
John Emms was born at Blofield, Norfolk, the son of the artist Henry William Emms. An interest in art took him to London and for some time he worked as Frederick, Lord Leighton...
Category
1870s Victorian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Upper Sacramento River, California" (Large Antique Landscape, Renowned Artist)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This very large, superb California landscape was painted by an artist celebrated for his California and Pacific Northwest scenes, and well-known among collectors of these works. Frederick Schafer (bio below) emigrated from Germany to the U.S. in 1876 at the age of 37. He traveled widely through the west and captured dramatic nature scenes such as this one, depicting the Upper Sacramento river with its towering trees. His paintings are in many superb institutional and private collections around the world. Paintings by Schafer in this size range have brought from $15,000 to $26,000 recently at auction, which is wholesale pricing (see photos) so we feel ours is a fair price. The painting measures an impressive 65" x 44.5" in its ornate gold wooden frame; the canvas size is 50" x 30". It has some professional and unobtrusive inpainting, not unusual for a painting of its age. Proudly presented by Guy Lyman Fine Art, New Orleans.
Bio as featured in AskArt: The following biography is from the artist's web site and reprinted with the permission of Jerome H. Saltzer.
"Frederick Ferdinand Schafer...
Category
1880s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Escuela española (XIX) - Óleo sobre tela - Retrato femenino
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
La obra no va firmada
La obra se presenta enmarcada con un marco de la época de la pintura (el marco presenta alguna leve falta)
Medidas de la obra: 59 cm. de altura x 48 cm. de an...
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil
Framed 19th Century Oil - Portrait of a Street Urchin
Located in Corsham, GB
Presented in a distressed dark green frame. Unsigned. On panel.
Category
19th Century Paintings
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 Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Oil Painting Three Terrier Puppies Dogs In a Stable With a Caged Rat
Located in Portland, OR
A wonderful & whimsical 19th century oil on panel painting of puppies in a farm stable, by the celebrated artist George Armfield (1820-1893), the painting circa 1860.
This lovely oil...
Category
1860s Victorian Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Interior scene with a young mother and child
Located in New York, NY
Excellent condition. Signed G. Laeverenz München.
Category
19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Outside the Inn
Located in Wiscasett, ME
An oil on panel signed and dated in the lower left depicting two riders on horseback sharing a drink outside a country inn. The painting measures 17.75" x 21.75" including the frame.
Provenance:
Private collection CT
Bradbury Art and Antiques, Wiscasset, ME
Heywood Hardy (25 November 1842 – 20 January 1933) was a British artist, in particular an animal painter and painter of horse riding scenes. He also painted landscapes and portraits, especially equestrian portraits. Horses and horse riding were the subjects of much of Hardy’s later work. His pictures of horse riding by the seashore...
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (Venice) - Early 19th century drawing - Holy Family
By Giuseppe Bernardino Bison
Located in Varmo, IT
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (Palmanova 1762 - Milan 1844) - Holy Family.
32 x 26 cm without frame, 36 x 30 cm with frame.
Pencil and white chalk drawing on paper, in a gilded wooden ...
Category
Early 19th Century Baroque Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil
Floral Bouquet - French circa 1900 Impressionist art oil painting of flowers
Located in London, GB
This superb Edwardian floral oil painting is by noted French Impressionist artist Jacques-Emile Blanche. From 1884 Blanche spent a lot of time in England and regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Seascape with Boats Storm Coming - Scottish 19thC exh impressionist oil painting
Located in London, GB
This dramatic Scottish Impressionist 19th century oil painting is by noted Scottish artist Joseph Henderson. Painted in 1876 it was exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy the same y...
Category
1870s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
News of the War - Large 19th Century Oil Painting Royal Academy Exhibition 1849
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘News from the Front’ by Frederick Goodall R.A. H.R.I. (1822-1904).
The painting – which depicts a diverse cross-section of Victorian figures gathered outside a post office as they...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid to Late 19th Century Portrait of an Elegant Young Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Superb Mid to Late 19th Century Portrait of an Elegant Young Woman
The sitter is an elegant young woman in her finest dress and jewelry.
Original oil on canvas. Dimensions 22" x 27...
Category
Mid-19th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hyena head
Located in Paris, IDF
Joseph Urbain MÉLIN
(Paris, 1814 – Avon, 1886)
Hyena head
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
40,5 x 32 cm without frame
65 x 57 cm with frame
1854
Born in Paris on Februar...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid 19th Century American Folk Art Portrait of Child with Dog in Landscape, Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: American School, mid 19th century
Title: Portrait of a Child dressed in a hat and their 'Sunday best', with small pet dog in a landscape.
Medium: oil on canvas, un...
Category
19th Century Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Oil
William Davies (1826-1901) - For Restoration 1868 Oil, Menai Bridge
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful study of Menai Bridge in Anglesey, North Wales for restoration. The scene shows the iron suspension bridge in the idyllic North Wales landscape with a cow...
Category
Mid-19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
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