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Paintings For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Period: 1960s
Coastal Oil Painting with a Middle Eastern Minaret by Berchère
By Narcisse Berchere
Located in London, GB
Oil painting of a Middle Eastern coastal town with a minaret by Berchère French, 19th Century Canvas: Height 46cm, width 38cm Frame: Height 74cm, width 67cm, depth 10cm This atmosph...
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19th Century Land Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A grey horse, pony and terrier in a stable
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
James Loder of Bath (1784-1854) A grey horse, pony and terrier in a stable signed 'J Loder' (lower right) Oil on canvas Canvas size - 24 x 30 in Framed size - 27 x 34 in Provenance ...
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19th Century Victorian Paintings

Materials

Oil

Return Of Columbus In Chains To Cadiz By Emanuel Leutze
Located in New Orleans, LA
Emanuel Leutze 1816-1868 American Return of Columbus in Chains to Cadiz Signed E. Leutze / Philadelphia (lower right) Oil on canvas Painted by the artist in 1842, this masterpiec...
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19th Century Academic Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Fine 19th Century Scottish Oil Painting Panoramic Loch Scene Listed artist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Highland Loch by Charles Leslie (British 19th century) signed lower corner oil on canvas, framed framed: 15 x 27 inches canvas: 12 x 24 inches provenance: private collection, UK ...
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19th Century Victorian Paintings

Materials

Oil

Passeggiata a cavallo a Trieste
Located in Roma, RM
Alfredo Tominz (Trieste 1854 – 1936), Passeggiata a cavallo a Trieste Dipinto ad olio su tela di cm 69 x 110 firmato e datato 1890 in basso a destra. Provenienza: Asta Stadion Trie...
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Late 19th Century Academic Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Little Ballerina
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Alphonse PELLET (1853-1926) The Little Ballerina Oil on wood panel signed low right Old frame regilded with leaves Size panel : 30 X 43 cm - Size frame : 40 X 55 cm Alphonse PELLET...
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1880s Academic Paintings

Materials

Oil

Golden Age of Illustration Romance Story, Man Woman Relationship - Green Yellow
Located in Miami, FL
This impeccably rendered mid-century double portrait of a quarreling man and woman exhibits a supreme academic training knowledge lost in almost all contemporary art. It features an ...
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1960s Romantic Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Gouache, Pencil, Graphite

Antique rabbit painting by Abel Hold, Victorian rabbit still life oil portrait
By Abel Hold
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Antique oil portrait painting of a rabbit by English artist Abel Hold (1815-1893), signed in the lower left corner A Hold. This atmospher...
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1860s Victorian Paintings

Materials

Oil

Reminiscence of Vermont, ca. 1860–1870
Located in New York, NY
In this detailed and colorful rendering of a Vermont countryside entitled “Reminiscence of Vermont,” William Hart paints two figures walking along a stream
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19th Century Hudson River School Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Venice (A View from the Ponte Sant’ Eufemia on the Giudecca)
Located in New York, NY
Francis Hopkinson Smith paints a watercolor of Venice with figures looking out onto the river with ships sailing by in his work entitled, “Venice (A View from the Ponte Sant’ Eufemia...
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Late 19th Century Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

The Death Of Icarus, 19th Century - Alexandre CABANEL (1823-1889)
Located in Blackwater, GB
The Death Of Icarus, 19th Century circle of Alexandre CABANEL (1823-1889) Large 19th Century French classical scene of The Death Of Icarus, oil on canvas circle of Alexandre Cabane...
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19th Century Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Stabled Horses
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
John Ferneley Jnr Stabled horses Oil on canvas Canvas Size - 20 x 24 in Framed Size - 27 x 31 in Born in about 1815 at Melton Mowbray, he was the eldest son of the important sporting artist John E Ferneley. The latters other two children, Claude Lorraine and Sarah, were also artists. He spent his early life at Elgin Lodge and his father was a major influence on his artistic development and was in all probability his sole teacher. His father took him on trips to London and in 1832 to Durham and York where the younger Ferneley later settled in about 1839, probably because of the large number of patrons in the area. His first work, of a Whipping-in, was engraved and published in the New Sporting Magazine in May 1833 and was followed in the next year by an engraving of a Hunter. John E Ferneley had established a significant career as an equestrian artist in the old English tradition largely due to being a pupil of Ben...
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19th Century Old Masters Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Farm to the Donkey
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
GARAT Francis (1870 - NC) The Farm of The Donkey Oil on canvas signed and dated 1883 low right Frame guilded Size canvas : 50 X 76 cm - Size frame : 60 X 76 cm GARAT Francis (1870 -...
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1880s Academic Paintings

Materials

Oil

Sunset Over a Frozen Landscape
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Sunset over a Frozen Landscape by George Augustus Williams British 1814 - 1901 Oil on canvas Canvas size: 13 x 20 inches Framed size: 17 x 24 inches Monogrammed lower left
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19th Century Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

No. 16 painting by Naohiko Inukai
Located in Hudson, NY
A great strong-edge painting by Naohiko Inukai, No. 16 is part of a series the artist created in the mid 1960s. Many from this series were shown at Inukai's two solo shows at Stempfl...
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1960s Hard-Edge Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Early spring (Sketch), oil on jute by Endogurov Ivan Ivanovich (1861-1898)
Located in Gent, VOV
Endoguruv was one of the great artists in the history of Russian landscape painting, and the depiction of still waters was an important theme in his works. Ivan Endogurov depicted no...
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19th Century Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American Modernist Cubist Still Life Interior Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract cubist oil painting. Great color and composition. Framed. Signed.
Category

1960s Cubist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

GUDIN Henriette Marine boats sea french romantic small panel 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Henriette GUDIN Paris, 1825 - Paris, 1892 Oil on wood 14 x 21 cm (40 x 47 cm with the frame) Signed lower left "H. Gudin" Very beautiful 19th century frame decorated with friezes, in...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Paintings

Materials

Oil

The town hall in Veere - François jean Louis Boulanger (1819-1873)
Located in Gent, BE
Oil on canvas Signed lower right and on the back Boulanger was mainly know for his picturesque sites from Ghent, less often a picturesque corner from Bruges or Dutch cities. Sporad...
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19th Century Romantic Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

The Broken Mast
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
It is subjectively proven that artistic inspiration strikes individuals in varied and unique ways. In this single painting, an appreciative audience may examine how the early luminou...
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1870s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

The Gold Brooch, Orientalist Oil Painting, Signed and dated 1894
Located in London, GB
Oil on panel, signed, dated and inscribed ‘Bou Saada, 1894’ lower right Image size: 13 x 8 3/4 inches (33 x 22.25 cm) Ornate Gilt frame Euguene Alexis Girardet A child prodigy, Gi...
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1890s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

“Evangeline: Tale of Acadia”
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed with initials lower right The painting is one of the 4 illustrations that JWS did for the book “Evangeline: Tale of Acadia”, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
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1890s Paintings

Materials

Ink, Watercolor

Haitian Couple in Bed Simultaneously Adjusting their Radios, Surrealism
Located in Miami, FL
Wilson Bigaud is an idea artist in who showcases visual ideas in many of his paintings. In this work, a married Haitian couple tunes their radios in sync as they lie in bed. Bigaud was greatly interested in radios, which appeared in many of his works. This work rises to the level of Surrealism in that Bigaud is doing more than just depicting a normal bedroom moment. There is something very strange and bizarre in the couple's synchronized actions. Also of note, it looks like the woman is swallowing the edge of the radio. Signed lower right in a handmade and hand-painted frame. Wear to the edges of board, including delamination in the corners, some dents and losses. Frame rubbing with associated wear. Areas of white discoloration to the bed and headboard...
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1960s Surrealist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Ships Sailing In A Venice Lagon At Sunset 19th Century Etienne Leroy (1828-1876)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Ships Sailing In A Venice Lagon At Sunset, 19th Century by Etienne Leroy (1828-1876) Large 19th Century Venetian Sunset view of ships sailing across the lagoon, oil on canvas by E...
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19th Century Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Venus with Putti Oil on Canvas with Gilt-wood Frame
Located in Rome, IT
French 19' century painting oil on canvas . Young Venus nude figure surrounded by delicious playing putti . Finely carved and gilt-wood frame of the same period . Measurements w...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Paintings

Materials

Oil

19th Century Spanish Colonial School, Retablo, El Nino de Atocha
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This late 19th-century Mexican oil painting depicts the Christ child as ‘El Nino de Atocha’. El Nino de Atocha is a popular subject of Mexican retablo art and its roots can be trace...
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1880s Folk Art Paintings

Materials

Metal

Portrait Of A Ballerina, early 20th Century by Marcel BLOCH (1882-1966)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Ballerina, early 20th Century by Marcel BLOCH (1882-1966) Large early 20th Century French Impressionist portrait of a ballerina, oil on canvas by Marcel Bloch. Good q...
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19th Century Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Landscape of Madrid (El Pardo)
Located in MADRID, ES
Oil on canvas of 19 century. With references of being in the exposition when he died and was in the Sorolla’s house. The last owner was Javier Salas who was director of Museo Del Prado...
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19th Century Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas

The Funeral Procession, circa 1820 Chinese School
Located in Blackwater, GB
The Funeral Procession, circa 1820 Chinese School Large 1early 19th Century Chinese School Funeral procession landscape, oil on canvas. Good quality and condition unusual landscap...
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19th Century Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A LARGE BERLIN (K.P.M.) PORCELAIN PLAQUE, THE PRODIGAL SON
Located in New York, NY
Finely painted after Rembrandt with a self-portrait of the artist and his spouse, Saskia, in a tavern, in the guise of the Prodigal Son LATE 19TH CENTURY, IMPRESSED MONOGRAM AND SCE...
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Late 19th Century Paintings

Materials

Porcelain

Introspective Woman / Actress on Movie Set. Mid Century Art, Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Lorraine Fox was an American illustrator and commercial artist who illustrated magazines, book covers, and advertisements. Among the magazines, she illustrated for were Woman's Day, ...
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1960s Post-Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Board, Pencil

William Bodfish Oil Painting Titled "The Sister's Visit", Dated 1888
Located in New York, NY
Two figures in 19th century dress sit at a table in a cafe. Provenance: Private Collection, New Jersey Originally based in New York City, William Bodfish was a talented artist who gained recognition for his illustrations and cartoons in the late nineteenth century. A painter of genre scenes, he also created detailed illustrations of hunting, whaling and fishing adventures for such magazines as Harper's Weekly. In the years following the Civil War, he traveled to the American West, joining the legion of journalists and illustrators who recorded the development of the new frontier. He was considered by historians to be one of the most “able cartoonists” to tackle the West. During his lifetime, Bodfish exhibited work at the National Academy of Design and the Art Institute of Chicago. Likely created after the artist’s departure from New York, The Sister’s Visit records a quiet moment between two siblings. Seated before a lovely spread of luncheon items, including a bowl of oranges...
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1880s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Daydreaming
Located in Washington, DC
Ideal head by 19th-century American painter.
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Late 19th Century Academic Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Young Girl Red Dress lost in Thought, Mid Century Woman's Magazine Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Lorraine Fox (1922–1976) was an American illustrator and commercial artist who illustrated magazines, book covers, and advertisements. Among the magazines, she illustrated for was Wo...
Category

1960s Feminist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

'Biddick (by Dick Andrews)' a bay racehorse, with Jockey up 1815
Located in Lincoln, GB
John Nost Sartorius (1759-1828) Biddick, titled and dated 1815 Oil on Canvas 60 x 73 cms Framed
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19th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil

Sur le balcon (On the Balcony)
Located in Washington, DC
Exhibited: Société Nationale des Beaux-arts, Paris, 1893 (as Jeune Fille arrosant ses fleurs) Literature: Michel, Jean Pierre, François Guiguet (Corbelin, France, 1996), p. 102 (n...
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1890s Post-Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Painting 19th Century - Portrait of Young Lady
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
ERNEST BLANC-GARIN (1843-1916) Portrait of a Young Lady around 1880 Oil on wood panel signed low Old Original frame gilded with leaves Dimensions wood : 40 X 30 cm Dimensions frame : 62 X 53 cm ERNEST BLANC-GARIN (1843-1916) Belgian Painter 19th Century Born 8 October 1843 in Givet (France) Died 1916 in Brussels (Belgium) Painter of Portraits and Urbanscapes. In Brusssels he was taught by Jan Portaëls (1818-1895); then in Paris by Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889) He took part in the Salon de Paris from 1868. After a trip to Italy in 1870, he came back to Brussels for creating a private Art Academy providing a very liberal teaching. His portraits are made with a lot of freedom and gracefulness. Bibliography : Dictionary of Artists E. Benezit Book II / 373 Gérald SHURR : Les petits Maîtres de la Peinture 1820- 1920 Book V
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1880s Academic Paintings

Materials

Oil

Memphitis
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An abstract acrylic and paper on canvas painting by Post War artist Arne Hiersoux. "Memphitis" is executed in bold strokes, splashes and drips of black, red, green, yellow and ochre ...
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1960s Post-War Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas, Paper

A Lion Mangled Me - A Man Eating Lion
Located in Miami, FL
Using brilliant compositional devices and late afternoon light, Frank McCarthy captures a man at the precise moment before death. The scene is staged wi...
Category

1960s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Casein, Board

Landscape of Mountains
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
MOSNY Henry (19th Century) Landscape of Mountains Oil on canvas signed below and dated 1882 Black and Golden wood Frame Dim canvas : 73 X 92 cm Dim Frame : 92 X 112 cm MOSNY Henry (...
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1880s Academic Paintings

Materials

Oil

La lecture au jardin (Lesson in the Garden)
Located in New Orleans, LA
French Post-Impressionist painter Georges d’Espagnat captures a charming moment between a mother and her child in this vibrant oil on canvas. Rendered with a studied use of complementary colors and bold brushstrokes, the painting showcases the artist's unique Post-Impressionist style. Remembered as one of the most individualistic artists of the 20th century, his distinctive canvases bring together the loose brushwork of the Impressionists and the bold color palette favored by the Fauves. Together, they achieve a vibrant spontaneity that lends itself well to the carefree subjects of the present work. Masterfully composed, La lecture au jardin moves beyond the Impressionist instinct to capture a fleeting moment on canvas. Rather, d'Espagnat succeeds in creating a deep feeling of harmony in the work. Warm colors are perfectly balanced with cool tones, while vertical and horizontal lines are softened by the curves of the foliage and his subjects' figures. Through his simplification of forms and intentional use of color and line, he creates a scene that is carefully designed and thoroughly modern. A similar view of a mother and her child by d'Espagnat is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York). The Post-Impressionist painter was an individualist since his youth, choosing to forgo traditional schooling in order to independently study the Old Masters in the Louvre. He soon became involved with the most prominent Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters of the age, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Signac, who themselves existed outside the traditional norms of French Academic training. In 1891, he exhibited at the Salon des Refusés, and again the following year at the Salon des Indépendants. By 1895, he held his first one-man show in Paris, and just three years later his success earned him a solo show at the prestigious Durand-Ruel Gallery. Between 1905 and 1910 he made several trips to visit Renoir on the Côte d’Azur. Their close friendship resulted in a group exhibition at Marcel Bernheim...
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Late 19th Century Post-Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Monastery
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Vladimir Skryabin was an innovative painter who lived in Leningrad/St. Petersburg during the 20th century. He was classically trained as a painter and graphic artists and his painti...
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1960s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Five Wall Decoration 'En Grisaille' by Dufour, Paris, France, 19th Century
Located in Rome, IT
Five papiers peints 'En Grisaille' from the psyche´ series manufactured by Dufour, Paris, after designs by Merry-Joseph Blondel and Louis Lafitte. -'Psyche´ returning from hades.' -'...
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19th Century Romantic Paintings

Materials

Handmade Paper

Flying Saucer, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1966
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Framed 25.00" x 21.00." Saturday Evening Post Cover, December 17th, 1966
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1960s Paintings

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Acrylic, Board

Oliver
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Made for the movie poster for "Oliver" Signed Lower Right
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1960s Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Country Life
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas Canvas size: 6 x 12 inches Framed size: 13.5 x 17.5 inches Signed
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19th Century Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Things in My House” Little Golden Book, Children's Book CoverIllustration Art
Located in Miami, FL
Joe Kaufman, writer, illustrator. Recipient Art Directors Club medal, 1948, New York Academy of Sciences Children's Science Book award, 1973, Gold award, Silver award Art Directors C...
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1960s Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Eagle & Rabbit In The Alps, 19th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Eagle & Rabbit In The Alps, 19th Century attributed to John James AUDUBON (1785-1851) Fine large 19th Century French School study of an Eagle with its prey in the mountains of the...
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19th Century Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fishing in the Stream
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas Canvas size: 8.5 x 12 inches Framed size: 13.75 x 17.25 inches Signed lower right
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19th Century Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Cassandra Kiss
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An abstract acrylic and paper on canvas painting by Post War artist Arne Hiersoux. "Cassandra Kiss" is executed in bold strokes, splashes and drips of deep blue, red, back and white ...
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1960s Post-War Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Acrylic

Je ne sais ou il va?
By Junko Frank
Located in London, GB
JUNKO FRANK (Junko Tsuchihachi) b. 1930 Wakayama, Japan 1930 (Japanese) Title: Je ne sais ou il va?, 1969 Technique: Original Signed and Dated Oil Painting on Canvas size: ...
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1960s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Appealing To Be Allowed To Help Fight For The Union
By James Earl Taylor
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache Signature: Signed Lower Right a slave with shackles on the ground behind him appealing to Abraham Lincoln with the Civil War battle s...
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Late 19th Century Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Trouble at the Garage
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 28.00" x 22.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right
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Late 19th Century Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait Of Elizabeth Campbell & Daughter, Wife Of Colonel Colin Campbell
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of Elizabeth Campbell & Daughter, Wife Of Colonel Colin Campbell circle of Margaret Carpenter (1793-1872) Large 19th Century English portrait of Elizabeth Campbell & Daughter, oil on canvas. Seated half length mother and daughter portrait of the wife of Colonel Colin Campbell. Good quality similar to Margaret Carpenters...
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19th Century Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Love Letter
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas Canvas size: 24 x 18.25 inches Framed size: 31.75 x 25.75 inches Signed lower right
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19th Century Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

French Coastal Sunset, possibly near Etretat, Le Havre, dated 1928
Located in Blackwater, GB
French Coastal Sunset, possibly near Etretat, Le Havre, dated 1928 by Alfred Bergström (1869-1930) Fine huge 1928 French Coastal Sunset Landscape, p...
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19th Century Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Japanese Girl Promenading
Located in New York, NY
Harry Humphrey Moore led a cosmopolitan lifestyle, dividing his time between Europe, New York City, and California. This globe-trotting painter was also active in Morocco, and most importantly, he was among the first generation of American artists to live and work in Japan, where he depicted temples, tombs, gardens, merchants, children, and Geisha girls. Praised by fellow painters such as Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, and Jean-Léon Gérôme, Moore’s fame was attributed to his exotic subject matter, as well as to the “brilliant coloring, delicate brush work [sic] and the always present depth of feeling” that characterized his work (Eugene A. Hajdel, Harry H. Moore, American 19th Century: Collection of Information on Harry Humphrey Moore, 19th Century Artist, Based on His Scrap Book and Other Data [Jersey City, New Jersey: privately published, 1950], p. 8). Born in New York City, Moore was the son of Captain George Humphrey, an affluent shipbuilder, and a descendant of the English painter, Ozias Humphrey (1742–1810). He became deaf at age three, and later went to special schools where he learned lip-reading and sign language. After developing an interest in art as a young boy, Moore studied painting with the portraitist Samuel Waugh in Philadelphia, where he met and became friendly with Eakins. He also received instruction from the painter Louis Bail in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1864, Moore attended classes at the Mark Hopkins Institute in San Francisco, and until 1907, he would visit the “City by the Bay” regularly. In 1865, Moore went to Europe, spending time in Munich before traveling to Paris, where, in October 1866, he resumed his formal training in Gérôme’s atelier, drawing inspiration from his teacher’s emphasis on authentic detail and his taste for picturesque genre subjects. There, Moore worked alongside Eakins, who had mastered sign language in order to communicate with his friend. In March 1867, Moore enrolled at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts, honing his drawing skills under the tutelage of Adolphe Yvon, among other leading French painters. In December 1869, Moore traveled around Spain with Eakins and the Philadelphia engraver, William Sartain. In 1870, he went to Madrid, where he met the Spanish painters Mariano Fortuny and Martin Rico y Ortega. When Eakins and Sartain returned to Paris, Moore remained in Spain, painting depictions of Moorish life in cities such as Segovia and Granada and fraternizing with upper-crust society. In 1872, he married Isabella de Cistue, the well-connected daughter of Colonel Cistue of Saragossa, who was related to the Queen of Spain. For the next two-and-a-half years, the couple lived in Morocco, where Moore painted portraits, interiors, and streetscapes, often accompanied by an armed guard (courtesy of the Grand Sharif) when painting outdoors. (For this aspect of Moore’s oeuvre, see Gerald M. Ackerman, American Orientalists [Courbevoie, France: ACR Édition, 1994], pp. 135–39.) In 1873, he went to Rome, spending two years studying with Fortuny, whose lively technique, bright palette, and penchant for small-format genre scenes made a lasting impression on him. By this point in his career, Moore had emerged as a “rapid workman” who could “finish a picture of given size and containing a given subject quicker than most painters whose style is more simple and less exacting” (New York Times, as quoted in Hajdel, p. 23). In 1874, Moore settled in New York City, maintaining a studio on East 14th Street, where he would remain until 1880. During these years, he participated intermittently in the annuals of the National Academy of Design in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, exhibiting Moorish subjects and views of Spain. A well-known figure in Bay Area art circles, Moore had a one-man show at the Snow & May Gallery in San Francisco in 1877, and a solo exhibition at the Bohemian Club, also in San Francisco, in 1880. Indeed, Moore fraternized with many members of the city’s cultural elite, including Katherine Birdsall Johnson (1834–1893), a philanthropist and art collector who owned The Captive (current location unknown), one of his Orientalist subjects. (Johnson’s ownership of The Captive was reported in L. K., “A Popular Paris Artist,” New York Times, July 23, 1893.) According to one contemporary account, Johnson invited Moore and his wife to accompany her on a trip to Japan in 1880 and they readily accepted. (For Johnson’s connection to Moore’s visit to Japan, see Emma Willard and Her Pupils; or, Fifty Years of Troy Female Seminary [New York: Mrs. Russell Sage, 1898]. Johnson’s bond with the Moores was obviously strong, evidenced by the fact that she left them $25,000.00 in her will, which was published in the San Francisco Call on December 10, 1893.) That Moore would be receptive to making the arduous voyage across the Pacific is understandable in view of his penchant for foreign motifs. Having opened its doors to trade with the West in 1854, and in the wake of Japan’s presence at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876, American artists were becoming increasingly fascinated by what one commentator referred to as that “ideal dreamland of the poet” (L. K., “A Popular Paris Artist”). Moore, who was in Japan during 1880–81, became one of the first American artists to travel to the “land of the rising sun,” preceded only by the illustrator, William Heime, who went there in 1851 in conjunction with the Japanese expedition of Commodore Matthew C. Perry; Edward Kern, a topographical artist and explorer who mapped the Japanese coast in 1855; and the Boston landscapist, Winckleworth Allan Gay, a resident of Japan from 1877 to 1880. More specifically, as William H. Gerdts has pointed out, Moore was the “first American painter to seriously address the appearance and mores of the Japanese people” (William H. Gerdts, American Artists in Japan, 1859–1925, exhib. cat. [New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 1996], p. 5). During his sojourn in Japan, Moore spent time in Tokyo, Yokohama, Kyoto, Nikko, and Osaka, carefully observing the local citizenry, their manners and mode of dress, and the country’s distinctive architecture. Working on easily portable panels, he created about sixty scenes of daily life, among them this sparkling portrayal of a young woman dressed in a traditional kimono and carrying a baby on her back, a paper parasol...
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Late 19th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

The Sword Merchant
Located in New York, NY
ADDISON THOMAS MILLAR American, 1850-1913 The Sword Merchant Signed Addison T Millar Oil on board 10 in x 8 in Framed: 18 in x 10 in
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Late 19th Century Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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Painting is an art form that has spanned innumerable cultures, with artists using the medium to tell stories, explore and communicate ideas and express themselves. To bring abstract, landscape and still-life paintings into your home is to celebrate and share in the long tradition of this discipline.

When we look at paintings, particularly those that originated in the past, we learn about history, other cultures and countries of the world. Like every other work of art, paintings — whether they are contemporary creations or works that were made during the 19th century — can often help us clearly see and understand the world around us in a meaningful and interesting way.

Cave walls were the canvases for what were arguably the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict natural scenery through art. Portrait paintings and drawings, which, along with sculpture, were how someone’s appearance was recorded prior to the advent of photography, are at least as old as Ancient Egypt. In the Netherlands, landscapes were a major theme for painters as early as the 1500s. Later, artists in Greece, Rome and elsewhere created vast wall paintings to decorate stately homes, churches and tombs. Today, creating a wall of art is a wonderful way to enhance your space, showcase beautiful pieces and tie an interior design together.

No matter your preference, whether you favor Post-Impressionist paintings, animal paintings, Surrealism, Pop art or another movement or specific period, arranging art on a blank wall allows you to evoke emotions in a room while also showing off your tastes and interests. A symmetrical wall arrangement may comprise a grid of four to six pieces or, for an odd number of works, a horizontal row. Asymmetrical arrangements, which may be small clusters of art or large, salon-style gallery walls, have a more collected and eclectic feel. Download the 1stDibs app, which includes a handy “View on Wall” feature that allows you to see how a particular artwork will look on a particular wall, and read about how to arrange wall art. And if you’re searching for the perfect palette for your interior design project, what better place to turn than to the art world’s masters of color?

On 1stDibs, you’ll find an expansive collection of paintings and other fine art for your home or office. Browse abstract paintings, portrait paintings, paintings by popular artists and more today.

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