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Paintings For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Period: 1930s
Antique English Oil Painting c. 1900's Portrait of Auburn Hair Girl in Red Dress
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Young Girl, Auburn Hair wearing a red dress
English School, late 19th/ early 20th century period
late Victorian/ early Edwardian
oil on board, framed
Framed: 30.5 x 24 ...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil
Awakening - Important Royal Academy Oil Painting of Neoclassical Nudes Nymphs
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Awakening’ by Herbert James Draper (1864-1920).
This monumental masterpeice oil painting – which depicts two wood nymphs rising to meet the morning sun – is signed by the artist an...
Category
Late 19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vigilance, Loyalty & Devotion - 19th Century Oil Painting Society Beauty & Dogs
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Vigilance, Loyalty, and Devotion’ by Arthur Wardle R.B.C. R.I. (1864-1949).
The painting – which depicts a young beauty surrounded by poppies and her three faithful canine companio...
Category
Late 19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th century English Warship at sea, calm water with row boat resupplying
Located in Woodbury, CT
Adolphus Knell
Warship at anchor, in calm seas.
Adolphus Knell was a renowned British maritime artist of the 19th century, recognized for his detailed and atmospheric paintings of ...
Category
1880s Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Large 20th Century French Modernist Oil Painting Sunbathing Figures on Beach
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Scene de Plage"
by Henri-Andre Martin (French 1918-2004)
stamped verso
oil painting on canvas, unframed
Canvas: 25.5 x 36 inches
Provenance: Private collection, Cannes, South of Fra...
Category
Early 19th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Card Game in the Parlour Charming Victorian Genre Interior Scene Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Card Game in the Parlour
by ALEXANDER AUSTEN (1859-1924)
signed oil on canvas, framed
framed: 17 x 15 inches
canvas: 12 x 10 inches
Provenance: Private collection, Yorkshire, England...
Category
19th Century Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil
News from the Front - 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
1930's French Impressionist Coastal Dunes with Distant Village Horizon Under Sky
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Coastal Dunes Landscape
Simone Forge 1930's French Impressionist
oil on board unframed
board: 9.5 x 13 inches
Provenance: private collection
Condition: great condition
For more an...
Category
Early 19th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Summer Meadows Wild Flowers by River, Original Victorian Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Summer Meadows
Victorian oil painting by Thomas James Purchas (British 1855-1930)
with name plaque to frame
oil painting on board, framed within ornate scrolled gilt frame
framed: 10...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil
Huge Victorian Scottish Oil Painting Highland Cattle in Misty Mountain Glen 1873
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Highland Cattle Drive
Artist: Henry Garland (British, 1834-1919)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions:
Canvas: 30 x 50 inches
With Frame: 36 x 56 inches
Date: Signed ...
Category
1870s Victorian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Oil Painting Victorian Holiday Summer Landscape Royal Academy 1859
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘A Day in the Country’ by William Frederick Witherington R.A. (1785-1865).
The painting – which depicts a group of Victorian figures on a summer’s day before an extensive landscape ...
Category
1850s Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil
Frank Sternberg - Barbizon School 1880 Oil, The Young Tatterdemalion
Located in Corsham, GB
This evocative painting depicts a solitary young boy in tattered clothing traversing a snow-covered rural path, framed by a wooden fence and distant trees against a muted winter sky....
Category
Late 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Corrida" Oil on Board by Buckley MacGurrin
Located in Pasadena, CA
In "Corrida", Buckley MacGurrin painted a matador, captured in mid-movement, who seems to both defy and flee. He doesn’t face the bull but runs virtually parallel to it, as if drawn ...
Category
1930s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Stubbs style 19th C English Horse portrait Bay hunter and hound in a landscape.
Located in Woodbury, CT
This exquisite oil on canvas by Daniel Clowes, a renowned English sporting painter from the early 19th century, showcases a bay hunter and a hound set against a serene, rolling lands...
Category
Early 1800s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Farmhouses in Autumn, Giverny" Theodore Earl Butler, American Impressionism
By Theodore Earl Butler
Located in New York, NY
Theodore Earl Butler
Farmhouses in Autumn, Giverny
Signed "T.E. Butler" lower right
Oil on canvas
21 1/4 x 25 1/2 inches
Provenance
The artist.
Estate of the above.
By descent throu...
Category
1890s American Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Edward William Cooke RA, West-Country Cove With Cottages, Family & Donkeys
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This idyllic late 19th-century oil painting by English artist Edward William Cooke RA (1811-1880) depicts a west-country cove with two cottages, donkeys, figures, and fishing boats. Cooke was a highly renowned painter of marine scenes and landscapes who exhibited extensively at London’s Royal Academy.
From our elevated vantage point, the view extends between two quaint cottages and across the beach before sweeping around the sandy coastline. Crystalline waters lap the shore, where moored craft rest. It’s an accomplished rendering of a challenging composition. It’s enhanced by trees, which essentially ‘frame’ the right side, while a wooded track provides interest on the left.
Cooke was a keen admirer of the Dutch old masters, and the spirit of the Golden Age underpins this splendid work. In diaries, he recorded how he travelled by donkey to access elevated spots in the southwest, so it’s conceivable that he did so here. In his catalogue raisonné, it lists a work from the same year titled ‘Bay with Donkeys’.
Born in Pentonville, London, Cooke was raised in the company of accomplished artists as both his father, George Cooke (1781-1834), and his uncle, William Bernard Cooke (1778-1855), were engravers. As such, they were associated with a circle of Victorian painters who aided Cooke’s early development. These included the highly regarded marine painter Clarkson Frederick Stanfield RA RBA (1793-1867), who provided frequent advice and inspiration. Indeed, as a teenager, Cooke produced numerous drawings after Stanfield’s works.
A precocious talent, by the age of nine, he was already displaying an advanced understanding of engraving, particularly for ships, coupled with a natural, seemingly in-built skill as a draughtsman. Many of his early drawings depict pastoral landscapes after the masters, such as Nicolaes Berchem (1620-1683), Paulus Potter (1625-1654), and Karel Dujardin (1626-1678).
In an extraordinary turn of events, in 1820, his advanced abilities led to his first commission when he provided botanical illustrations for John Loudon's 'Encyclopaedia of Plants’. These were followed by drawings published in the 'Botanical Cabinet...
Category
1870s Victorian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Oil - New Pastures
Located in Corsham, GB
This pastoral landscape painting captures a serene rural scene, with cattle gathered near a wooden gate in the foreground and rolling hills stretching into the misty distance. The ar...
Category
19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine Victorian 1890's Signed Scottish Oil Painting Farmers Daughter in Meadow
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Farmers Daughter"
by Charles Martin Hardie RSA (1858-1916) *see notes below
signed with initials and dated '84,
oil on canvas: 20 x 16 inches
framd: 26 x 22 inches
Provenance: ...
Category
1890s Victorian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th century English River Scene on the Medway
Located in Woodbury, CT
This painting, titled On the Medway, is by George Stanfield Walters (1838–1924), a renowned British maritime artist celebrated for his atmospheric depictions of coastal and river sce...
Category
1880s Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
19th Century British School Ship at Sea, Seascape Painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
19th Century British School
Ship at Sea
Oil on canvas laid on panel
11 x 14.5 inches
14.5 x 18 inches, framed
Category
19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique 19 century Original Oil painting on board, Landscape, Amazing Frame
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This antique painting on board depicts a tranquil and atmospheric landscape, bathed in the soft glow of dawn or dusk. The composition is rich in depth, with towering trees framing a ...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
1830's British Oil Painting Large Portrait of a Distinguished Gentleman
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of an English Gentleman
English School, circa 1830's period
oil on canvas, unframed
Canvas: 30 x 24.5 inches
Provenance: Private collection, UK
Condition: relined canvas, ov...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Late 19th Century Oil - The League
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming depiction of a young boy reading a paper titled 'The League'. Inscribed verso 'Sketch by E. Brothers'. Presented in a gilt frame with elaborate foliate ornamentation. On c...
Category
Late 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Realist 19 Century painting of a french woman lighting a cigarette
Located in New York, NY
Woman lighting a cigarette by Victor Gabriel Gilbert. Excellent condition and original frame.
Category
19th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Small Old Painting Called Rocky Path With Figures
By Thomas Barker of Bath
Located in Stockholm, SE
This exquisite painting, titled "Rocky Path With Figures" is a captivating example of Thomas Barker of Bath's talent. Despite its small size, measuring only 13 x 11 cm, this piece sh...
Category
Early 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Fine Victorian Oil Painting Cavalry Men Resting Village Tavern Roadside Inn
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pausing for Refreshments
by John Sanderson Wells (British 1872-1955) *see notes below
signed
oil on board, framed
Framed: 13.5 x 18 inches
Canvas : 10...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Heron by the River: atmospheric 19th Century Naturalist school landscape
Located in Norwich, GB
One wonderful thing about this painting is its light. It’s pitch-perfect: if it were a tad
darker, it would be gloomy; a tad lighter, and it there would be less to discover. The joy ...
Category
1860s Naturalistic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Baroque Style Oil Portrait, The Laughing Cavalier, Follower of Frans Hals
Located in Cotignac, FR
19th Century oil on canvas portrait of a cavalier. The painting is signed or annotated top right. There is a supplier's trade stamp to the back of the canvas.
A wonderful jewel of a...
Category
19th Century Baroque Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flower Still Life
By Adrian Dornbush
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(Note: This work is part of our exhibition Connected by Creativity: WPA Era Works from the Collection of Leata and Edward Beatty Rowan)
Oil on canvas, 24 ½ x 19 ½ inches unframed, 32 x 27 inches framed, signed and inscribed “Adrian Dornbush/ Flower Still Life” verso, a remnant of exhibition label verso, stamped “1454” verso, original frame
Exhibited:
i) Midwestern Artist’s Exhibition Representative Work from Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska & Colorado, Kansas City Art Institute, February 1 to March 2, 1931, no. 34 (see catalog with a listing of work with this title); and ii) Special Display and Sale of Late Oil Paintings Produced by Cedar Rapids Own Artists from the Little Gallery, at Newman’s Department Store, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, March 1932 (see [Advertisement], The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), March 15, 1932 – listing a work with this title, together with paintings by fourteen other artists, including Grant Wood, Marvin Cone...
Category
1930s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th Century English Oil Painting Cattle in Tranquil Pastoral Landscape framed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Tranquil Pastures
English, mid 19th century
circle of Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803-1902)
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 14 x 18 inches
canvas: 10 x 14 inches
provenance: private collect...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil
Enormous Religious German Oil Painting Adoration of Madonna & Christ Child
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Adoration of the Madonna & Christ Child
German Baroque artist, late 19th century
oil painting on canvas
framed within highly ornate gilt frame
overall size: 68 x 50 inches in total
c...
Category
Late 19th Century Baroque Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique English 19th Century, King Charles Cavalier and Westie dogs in a room
Located in Woodbury, CT
Antique Victorian English 19th Century, King Charles Cavalier spaniel and Westie terrier in an interior.
This exquisite English 19th-century painting by...
Category
1850s Victorian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
W.D. West - Framed Late 19th Century Oil, In the Church
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming late 19th century oil by W.D. West depicting mother and child attending church.
Presented in a stained oak frame with a gilt inner edge. Signed to the lower right. Inscri...
Category
Late 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early 19th-Century Italian Painting Boat Expedition Grotto Coastal Cave
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Boat Expedition
Italian School, early 1800's period
oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 19 x 23 inches
Canvas : 18.5 x 22.5 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition: the fr...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian School Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Trotting Race, Ratter (USA) & Miss Turner (Welsh), 1820
By Henry Alken
Located in Blackwater, GB
Trotting Race, Ratter (USA) & Miss Turner (Welsh), 1820
by HENRY ALKEN SNR (1785- 1851)
Large 19th Century English trotting match between Rattler (USA) and Miss Turner (Welsh), o...
Category
19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rainbow Trout -Late 19th Century New England Still Life. Naturalist Oil Painting
By Walter Brackett
Located in Marco Island, FL
A finely executed late 19th-century still life by Walter Brackett (1823-1919) of a rainbow trout with rod and reel in the foreground, along with the fly that captured the trout. Fin...
Category
1870s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century American Realist Fruit Still Life Finely Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted 19th Century American realist still life painting. Oil on canvas. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a period giltwood molding. Excellent c...
Category
1870s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th century English Antique Portrait of a terrier or toy dog
Located in Woodbury, CT
Edwin Loder – son of famous artist James Loder – originally enlisted in the 62nd Regiment of Foot in 1846 at the age of 19, serving mainly in India.
After 20 years in the Forces, Ed...
Category
1860s Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
French Empire Period Portrait of Fashionable Young Lady Antique Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Young Lady
French School, early 1800's period
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 26 x 21 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition: some crazing and pronoun...
Category
Early 19th Century French School Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Scottish Mountainous Landscape Tranquil Loch Antique Scottish Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Scottish Mountain Landscape
By Alex Fraser, Scottish School, late 19th century
Oil on canvas, unsigned, framed
Framed: 13 x 20 inches
Canvas: 10 x 18 inches
Provenance: Private colle...
Category
19th Century Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil
Victorian English Dog Painting White Terrier Looking Alert with Red Collar
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The White Terrier
English School, 19th century
oil painting on board, gilt framed
framed: 12 x 11 inches
board : 9 x 7 inches
Provenance: private collection, Cotswolds, England
Condi...
Category
19th Century Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th Century Portrait of a Cardinal Seated in Interior Finely Painted Watercolor
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Cardinal
English artist, 19th century
watercolor on board framed
framed: 11 x 9.5 inches
board: 8 x 7 inches
provenance: private collection, Norfolk, England
condition: very good...
Category
19th Century English School Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
American Impressionist: Springtime, a sunny path in France 19thC oil painting
Located in Norwich, GB
This beautiful and light filled painting testifies of a new dawn: in the 1880s the landscape and animalier artist William Baird turns to Impressionism. Our Sunny Path, with looser brushwork and lighter colours, convey the fleeting nature of the present. Our lovely oil on canvas may well be homage to Claude Monet - according to Baird's inscription on the stretcher, it was painted in Mantes, which is only about 6 miles from Vétheuil, where Monet was living and working in the 1880s!
William Baptiste Baird was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1847, but as an adult moved to Paris to perfect his painting technique. In Paris, Baird studied under Adolphe Yvon...
Category
1880s American Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wonderful Victorian oil of cows grazing in the Welsh or English hills
Located in Harkstead, GB
An idyllic view of cattle and sheep grazing in a pasture before an oak tree with a blue sky with bollowing clouds beyond.
William S Rose (1810-1873)
Cattle and sheep grazing in rou...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Antique 19th century oil painting on canvas, Female Portrait , Oval Frame
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale is a beautiful Antique 19-century original oil painting on canvas depicting a female portrait .
This painting is a classic portrait of a woman, set within an oval fram...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine 1800's Italian Grand Tour Oil Painting Figures before Classical Buildings
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Arcadian View
Italian School, circa 1800
Grand Tour subject
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 12 x 16 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: very good and sound cond...
Category
Early 1800s Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil
Huge 1850's Irish Romantic Sunset Landscape over Lough Waters & Mountains
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Irish Sunset
Irish School, mid 19th century, circa 1850
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 34 x 32.5 inches
canvas: 28 x 26 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: very g...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French school Landscape Windmill and Moon painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️Luminous - beautiful Landscape⬅️
⭐Structural Analysis⭐
This painting features a serene landscape from 19th century
⏩Windmill as Central Symbol:
The windmill is a quintessential...
Category
Early 1800s Tonalist Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Antique French Oil Classical Figures in a Romantic Woodland Landscape & Swans
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Riverside Gathering
French Rococo School, 19th century
signed indistinctly lower front corner
oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 26 x 34 inches
Canvas: 24 x 32 inches
Provenance: private ...
Category
19th Century Rococo Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rustic Charm of the French Countryside, French School
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are pleased to offer this exquisite mid-19th century French painting, a serene landscape that beautifully captures the tranquility of rural life. This piece is signed "Ph ..." (th...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
French Barbizon rural landscape: young girls chatting by the village gates
Located in Norwich, GB
Godefroy de Hagemann (1820-1877) was a member of the Hanover dynasty, of German Princes. His full name was Godefroy Auguste Christian Volfgann baron de Hagemann, or Godefroy de Hagem...
Category
Mid-19th Century Barbizon School Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique 19th Century American Oil Painting Portrait George Washington Athenaeum
By Gilbert Stuart
Located in Portland, OR
A very good American 19th Century oil on canvas painting of President George Washington, circa 1845, after the Athenaeum Portrait by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828).
The portrait is very true to the many painted by Stuart (please see the history below), it was painted in 1845 & has the canvas suppliers stamp of "Reeves and Sons...
Category
1840s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Huge Georgian 1820's English Oil Industrial Landscape with Mills Children Picnic
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Extensive Early Industrial Landscape with Mill"
by John Pennington (1773-1841, British)
subsidiary buildings, bleaching fields and a country house beyond,
three children with a bir...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Fluffy Pomeranian Dog Portrait Wide Gold Frame Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Incredible signed early American dog portrait painting. Oil on board. Signed. Housed in a period gold giltwood frame.
Category
1870s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figures in Winter Dutch Snow Landscape Large 19th Century Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Winter Landscape
Dutch School, 19th century
oil painting on canvas, framed
framed: 22 x 28 inches
canvas: 16.5 x 23 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: very goo...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Belle Epoque Beauty - 19th Century Oil Painting Portrait of French Flower Girl
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Young Beauty holding a Red Rose’ by Étienne Adolphe Piot (1831-1910). The painting is signed by the artist and hangs in a fine quality gold metal leaf frame.
Academy Fine Paintings...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Evening Breeze" Large Panoramic Sunset Beach Scene Rare Seascape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare and important antique oil painting by George Wright (1850 - 1916). A panoramic beach scene, complete with a sunset and crashing waves. Oil on canvas. Housed in a period gilt...
Category
1870s Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tombs of the Sultans - 19th Century Orientalist Oil Painting Royal Academy 1873
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Tombs of the Sultans’ by Frank Dillon R.I. R.O.I. (1823-1909).
The painting – which depicts the ancient Egyptian “City of the Dead” outside the old walls of Cairo – is signed by th...
Category
1870s English School Paintings
Materials
Oil
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