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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Style: Victorian
Style: Minimalist
Pair of 19th Century military oil paintings of volunteer rifle soldiers
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
**PLEASE NOTE: EACH PAINTING INCLUDING THE FRAME MEASURES 26.25 INCHES X 37.25 INCHES** Frederick Henry Howard Harris British, (1829-1901) Volunteer Rifl...
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19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

19th century oval oil portrait of a young girl with Red and White dress
By David Simonson
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful and very pretty 19th century European portrait of a young girl. This painting came from a collection of portraits all of young girls and all painted by David Simonson, wh...
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1870s Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Near Brodick, the Isle of Arran", figurative landscape, original oil on canvas
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
This is an original unique oil painting by the artist. Richard Hayes exhibited ‘Near Brodick, the Isle of Arran' in Wrightwood exhibition space in Chicag...
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19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique Scottish Highlands Signed Oil Painting Sunset Sheep Pitlochry Perthshire
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Pitlochry" by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950) signed, lower corner with pseudonym "W. Richards" titled verso to canvas oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 16 x 24 inches ...
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Early 20th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Pair of Antique British River landscapes, with waterfalls, mountains and trees
Located in Woodbury, CT
A pair of Victorian English oils on canvas, North Wales river landscape scenes. Walter Williams (1835-1906) was an English landscape painter who was active in the late 19th century....
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1870s Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Large Victorian painting of children resting outdoors by J.O. Banks
Located in London, GB
Large Victorian painting of children resting outdoors by J.O. Banks English, late 19th Century Frame: Height 91cm, width 111cm, depth 10cm Can...
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19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

19th century English Boats on a river with sailing, rowing and a paddle boat
Located in Woodbury, CT
Very pretty English 19th century River landscape with sailboats, a Paddle Steamer, and a crew rowing. Possibly a view on the Thames in London, this piece ...
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1880s Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Early 20th Century English Autumn river landscape with a Norman Church
Located in Woodbury, CT
Early 20th Century English Autumn river landscape with a Norman Church. Abraham Hulk Junior was born in the Netherlands in 1851 to renowned Dutch ...
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1890s Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

19th century antique English fishing boats by the shoreside
Located in Woodbury, CT
A very pretty late 19th-century English marine scene of fishing boats beached after being out to sea and bringing in their catch for the day. This was a subject that was very popul...
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1880s Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Board, Oil

Antique Scottish Highlands Oil Painting Dunkeld River Tay Perthshire
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Dunkeld" by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950) signed lower corner inscribed verso oil painting on canvas, framed canvas: 16 x 24 inches frame: 19 x 27 inches Fine quality antiqu...
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Early 20th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique British river landscape in oils with two figures fished in North Wales
Located in Woodbury, CT
H.East was a painter in oils of landscapes and rural scenes, who was active at the turn of the 19th to 20th century. He did not exhibit his work in the normal exhibition galleries bu...
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1890s Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique British Oil Fishing in the Highlands, 19th century framed oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Scottish/ Irish School, 19th century Title: Anglers in a Highland landscape Medium: oil painting on canvas, framed Size: framed: 20.75 x 26.5 inches canvas: 15 x...
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19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Pandemic 19 - landscape painting, minimalist painting
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful landscape painting by Olga is part of her Pandemic series she did during the Covid 19 pandemic. As oppose to the chaos the world is experiencing due to the pandemic, her landscape paintings are the opposite; calm, almost surreal and utopic. Olga is mostly engaged in painting and illustration. She likes breaking the rules of proper reflecting of nature with the use of unexpected elements from another universe. Her works are minimalistic in the form, simply elegant and gracefully colorful. Olga Szczechowska...
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2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Antique Scottish Highlands Oil Painting Sunset River Landscape with Mountains
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Allan Water, Stirling" by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950) signed, lower corner oil painting on canvas, framed canvas: 16 x 24 inches framed: 21.5 x 29 inches Fine quality antiqu...
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Early 20th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique Scottish Highlands Oil Painting Sunset Loch Landscape with Mountains
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Sunset" by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950) signed lower corner oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 16 x 24 inches Fine quality antique oil painting by the much admired an...
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Early 20th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Wistful Gaze, Oil on Canvas Painting
By Sophie Anderson
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
Sophie Anderson (1823-1903) Born in France to an English mother; Anderson spent some of her early life in America where she met the British portrait artist William Anderson. In 1854 they moved to London where she exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of British Artists. Although largely self-taught she is considered one of the era's finest genre artists, one of her works recently sold for over a million pounds Sterling...
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Late 19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Femme VI, 2015
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Born in 1951, Eishin Yoza was largely inspired by the 1970s growing up. The art sphere of the 1970s was epitomized by a desire to evolve and strengthen its...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media

Country House Garden and Terrace Far Reaching Panoramic Landscape Views, oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: British School, signed, 20th century Title: The Country House Garden Medium: signed oil painting on board, framed. Size: framed: 21.25 x 29.75 inches board: 15.7...
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20th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Oil

19th Century Boats and Fisherfolk at dawn off the Coast Rotterdam, oil painting
Located in ludlow, GB
"Fishing Boats, Rotterdam" 14 by 20 inches, Oil on Panel, Signed and Framed. JAMES WEBB British 1825 – 1895 Another beautiful painting by the wonderful J...
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19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Coffee Peloton XXVI
Located in Deddington, GB
Coffee Peloton XXVI by Eliza Southwood [2021] original Coffee on paper Image size: H:42 cm x W:60 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:42 cm x W:60 cm ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Coffee

The Farmers Stable, Victorian Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Victorian British, after George Morland Title: The Farmers Stable Medium: antique oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 19.5 x 25.5 inches canvas: 15 x 21 in...
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19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Pandemic 45 (seasonal series) - landscape painting, minimalist painting
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful landscape painting by Olga is part of her Pandemic series she did during the Covid 19 pandemic. As oppose to the chaos the world is experiencing due to the pandemic, her landscape paintings are the opposite; calm, almost surreal and utopic. Olga is mostly engaged in painting and illustration. She likes breaking the rules of proper reflecting of nature with the use of unexpected elements from another universe. Her works are minimalistic in the form, simply elegant and gracefully colorful. Olga Szczechowska...
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2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Dutch School 1869, Loading barges on a canal, with an elegant couple on the bank
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Dutch School 1869, signed and dated Title: Loading barges on a canal, with an elegant couple on the bank Medium: signed oil painting on ...
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19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Antique Scottish Highlands Oil Painting Golden Light Landscape with Mountains
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Highland Path" by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950) signed lower corner oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 16 x 24 inches Fine quality antique oil painting by the much...
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Early 20th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique English Victorian garden oil painting of a lady reading a love letter
Located in Woodbury, CT
Well painted scene of a lady reading a love letter in a garden landscape setting. John William Haynes was an English genre, figure, and portrait p...
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1870s Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

19th century English River landscape with figures, horses, cottage, sheep
By John Frederick Tennant
Located in Woodbury, CT
Well painted and very interesting composition attributed to the English landscape painter john Frederick Tennant. His work is very similar to ...
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1840s Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique Scottish Highlands Oil Painting River & Mountains Old Stone Bridge
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Allan Water" by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950) signed, lower corner oil painting on canvas, framed canvas: 16 x 24 inches framed: 21 x 29 inches Fine quality antique oil painting by the much admired and celebrated British artist F. E. Jamieson (1895-1950). The painting is signed by Jamieson to the lower corner. The painting captures this beautifully romantic view of the Highlands, titled verso as being 'Allan Water', which is a very fine river in central Scotland famed for its trout and Salmon fishing today. The painting has the bonus of capturing the Bridge of Allan...
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Early 20th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Fine 19th Century Italian Signed Oil Painting Portrait of Young Lady, Gilt Frame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Italian School, 19th century. indistinctly signed Title: Portrait of a Young Country Lady Medium: signed oil painting on canvas, framed. framed: 31.25 x 23 inches ...
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19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Oil

19th century French, Surrender of the French at Huningen Fort to the Austrians
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful French period copy of the famous painting by Jean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille, which the original is now in a museum in Paris. This piece came from a private collection in New Jersey where it had been since it was purchased in France back in the 1950s. The previous owner was an Art dealer in NYC during the 1950s-70s and she kept some of her favorite paintings, this being one of them. The piece was re-framed in the 1990s In 35 years of dealing in paintings, I have never seen another example of this scene, it is very rare.! History of the scene: In the Siege of Hüningen (27 November 1796 – 1 February 1797), the Austrians captured the city from the French. Hüningen is in the present-day Department of Haut-Rhin, France. Its fortress lay approximately 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north of the Swiss city of Basel and .5 miles (0.80 km) north of the spot where the present-day borders of Germany, France, and Switzerland meet. During the time of this siege, the village was part of the Canton of Basel City and the fortress lay in an area contested between the German states and the First French Republic. The siege occurred within the French Revolutionary Wars during which Revolutionary France ranged...
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1880s Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

English Victorian Antique landscape, Figures gathering Primroses
Located in Woodbury, CT
English Victorian Antique landscape, Figures gathering Primroses. Cowleigh Woods, North Malvern, UK John Bates Noel was born John Noel Bates in Worcester in 1870. He was the son of ...
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1920s Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Minimalist Painting House Polish Bergmann B&W Mid Century 1973 Gallery Label
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on canvas by Polish artist Stefan Bergmann. This work bears a label from Gimpel Fils Gallery in London from an exhibition for the arti...
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1970s Minimalist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Coffee Peloton XXVII
Located in Deddington, GB
Coffee Peloton XXVII by Eliza Southwood [2022] original Coffee on paper Image size: H:42 cm x W:59 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:42 cm x W:59 cm x D:0.1cm Sold Unframed Pleas...
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2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Coffee

19th century Dutch figures by boats on a canal or river in a Summer landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
William Raymond Dommersen was a painter of genre and landscapes in and around Scotland and Northern England. His works are widely exhibited throughout the European and North American...
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1880s Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Victorian 19th century portrait of an seated English Flower Seller
Located in Woodbury, CT
Victorian 19th-century portrait of a seated English Flower Seller. This is a very pretty classic English Victorian Genre painting. The style ...
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1850s Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique English 19thC Victorian, Night time marine battle scene with sloop
Located in Woodbury, CT
Well painted English Victorian scene of two boats in a battle at night time, off the coast of England. Though signed little is known about the painter. The piece is typically English in its style and the scene looks like the coast of the South of England. The painting has a sort of folk art quality, which maybe why the artist is not a listed painter...
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1880s Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

English Victorian 19th century Marine scene with fishing boats sunrise at sea.
By Thomas Lucop
Located in Woodbury, CT
Thomas Lucop 1834-1911 was a Hull painter and Master Mariner, friend and pupil of the Henry Redmore. He was a careful delineator of shipping and it’s act...
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1890s Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Coffee Peloton XXIV and Coffee Peloton XXV Diptych
Located in Deddington, GB
Coffee Peloton XXIV and Coffee Peloton XXV Diptych by Eliza Southwood [2021] original Coffee on Paper Image size: H:41.5 cm x W:59 cm Complete Size of ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Coffee

Yellow Flowers II and Yellow Flowers III diptych
Located in Deddington, GB
Yellow Flowers II and Yellow Flowers III diptych Overall size: H40 x W20 Yellow Flowers III By Deborah Windsor [2021] original Acrylic on Canvas Image size: H:20 cm x W:20 cm Compl...
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2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

19th century English landscape with a figure on a pathway and stormy sky
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful English 19th century Fall landscape, with a figure on a pathway passing sone Elm or Oak trees. This piece is signed lower right and is framed in a Vintage American Gold Le...
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1850s Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Victorian Woman Standing in Garden Admiring a Parrot 19th c English oil painting
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Edward Charles Barnes was a London painter of Victorian domestic scenes and interiors, especially of women and children. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Suffolk Street, and at th...
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1860s Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Pandemic 30 - landscape painting, minimalist painting
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful landscape painting by Olga is part of her Pandemic series she did during the Covid 19 pandemic. As oppose to the chaos the world is experiencing due to the pandemic, her landscape paintings are the opposite; calm, almost surreal and utopic. Olga is mostly engaged in painting and illustration. She likes breaking the rules of proper reflecting of nature with the use of unexpected elements from another universe. Her works are minimalistic in the form, simply elegant and gracefully colorful. Olga Szczechowska...
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2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

English School 19th Century Oil - Mother & Child Feeding Animals Stable Interior
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: English School 19th Century Title: A mother and child feeding chickens and a donkey in a stable Medium: oil on canvas, framed actual canvas size: 25.5 x 21.25 inch...
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19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Very Large Antique Scottish Highlands Oil Painting The Loch Keepers Cottage
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Loch Keepers Cottage" by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950) signed lower corner inscribed verso oil painting on canvas, framed canvas: 20 x 30 inches frame: 25 x 35.5 inches Fine quality antique oil painting by the much admired and celebrated British artist F. E. Jamieson (1895-1950). The painting is signed by Jamieson to the lower corner. The painting captures this beautifully romantic view of the Scottish Highlands, the whole landscape warmed by the summer sunshine. F. E. Jamieson (1895-1950) We are extremely fortunate to have been handling the works of the enigmatic British artist, F. E. Jamieson since the year we began art dealing, 1989. Over this time, coupled with our love of the Scottish landscape, we have bought and sold many hundreds of his paintings, in all their various guises and subjects and are considered by many to be a leading authority on the artist and his work. We are also in the early stages of publishing the Catalogue Raisonne for this artist, of which this painting will be featured. Mr. Jamieson was largely a painter of Scottish landscapes and loch scenes. Born in 1895, Jamieson lived on the south coast of England and was contracted to a large department store to supply them with his paintings. He was an ambitious man and keen to sell more works than through just one shop. In order to do this, he started to sign his works with pseudonyms other than his own name, in order that he could sell his work to a wider audience. It worked and it is considered that Jamieson at least 15 different pseudonym names on his paintings. In addition to selling through furniture shops, Jamieson would travel door to door offering his paintings to housewives and private buyers. In our years of researching the artist, we heard one story related to us by an old customer who remembers that Jamieson started selling door...
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Early 20th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Regency Sisters, A Portrait of Two Children - Fredrick Yeates Hurlestone
By Frederick Yeates Hurlestone
Located in Lincoln, GB
Frederick Yeates Hurlestone (1800 – 1869) Regency Sisters Oil on Canvas Size: 153cm x 126cm framed Frederick Yeates Hurlstone (1800 - 1869) was an English portrait and historical painter. Hurlstone exhibited at the Royal Academy for many years. He was a member of the Society of British Artists and was President of the Society until his death. He was born in London, the eldest son by his second marriage of Thomas Y. Hurlstone, one of the proprietors of the "Morning Chronicle" (his granduncle, Richard Hurlstone, was a well-known portrait-painter a generation earlier). He began life in the office of his father's journal, but, while still very young, became a pupil of Sir William Beechey, afterwards studying under Sir Thomas Lawrence, and also, it is said, under Benjamin Haydon. His first original work was an altar-piece, painted in 1816, for which he received 20 pounds. In 1820 he was admitted as a student of the Royal Academy, where in 1822 he gained the silver medal for the best copy made in the school of painting, and in 1823 the gold medal for historical painting, the subject being "The Contention between the Archangel Michael and Satan for the Body of Moses". He first exhibited in 1821, sending to the Royal Academy "Le Malade Imaginaire" and to the British Institution a "View near Windsor". These were followed at the Academy in 1822 by "The Return of the Prodigal Son" and a portrait, in 1823 by five portraits, and in 1824 by his "Archangel Michael" and some more portraitsOne of his best early works was "A Venetian Page with a Parrot", exhibited at the British Institution in 1824. In 1824 also he contributed "The Bandit Chief" to the first exhibition of the Society of British Artists. He continued to send portraits to the Royal Academy until 1830, but in 1831 he was elected a member of the Society of British Artists, after which he seldom exhibited elsewhere. He was chosen president in 1835, and again in 1840, retaining the office until his death. He contributed to the society's exhibitions upwards of three hundred portraits and other works, among them being "The Enchantress Armida", exhibited in 1831; "Haidee aroused from her Trance by the sound of Music", 1834; "Eros", 1836; "Italian Boys playing at the National Game of Mora" and the "Prisoner of Chillon", 1837; "The Scene in St. Peter's, Rome, from Byron's Deformed Transformed", 1839; "The Convent of St. Isidore: the Monks giving away provisions", 1841; and a "Scene in a Spanish Posada in Andalusia", 1843. In 1844 and, for the last time, in 1845 he again sent portraits to the Academy. His subsequent works at the Society of British Artists included "The Sons of Jacob bringing the blood-stained garment of Joseph to their Father", 1844; "Salute, Signore", 1845; "A Girl of Sorrento at a Well", 1847; "Inhabitants of the Palace of the Cæsars—Rome in the Nineteenth Century" 1850; "Columbus asking Alms at the Convent of La Rabida" 1853; "The Last Sigh of the Moor" (or "Boabdil el Chico...
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19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Untitled (seasonal series) - landscape painting, minimalist painting
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful landscape painting by Olga is part of her Pandemic series she did during the Covid 19 pandemic. As oppose to the chaos the world is experiencing due to the pandemic, h...
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2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Large Antique Scottish Highlands Oil Painting in Gilt Frame Pitlochry Perthshire
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Pitlochry" by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950) signed lower corner inscribed verso with title oil painting on canvas, framed canvas: 16 x 24 inches frame: 26 x 34 inches Fine q...
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Early 20th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Early 19th Century genre oil painting of a boy playing a flute
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Attributed to Thomas Barker of Bath British, (1769-1847) Boy with Flute Oil on canvas Image size: 17.5 inches x 13.5 inches Size including frame: 26.75...
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Early 19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

19th century English oil of still life of fruit, pigeons, apples, pears grapes
Located in Woodbury, CT
19th century English oil of still life of fruit, pigeons, apples, pears grapes. Charles Thomas Bale was born in Soho, London in 1849, the son of Thomas Bale, a basket maker. His older brother Thomas Charles Bale (1831-1899) was an artist and picture restorer. He lived with his family in St James, Westminster and although little is known about his education, he would have undoubtedly received encouragement and drawing tuition from his brother. Bale started exhibiting in 1866 at the Institute of British Artists, Suffolk Street. He also exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1872, the same year he married Caroline Leathem. Together, they spent their married life in St Pancras. He specialized in still life paintings predominantly of fruit, but he frequently incorporated baskets, a homage to his family’s profession, as well as pottery, glass, and game. Bale’s work was influenced by the English still-life artists George Lance and William Duffield...
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1890s Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Femme V, 2015
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Born in 1951, Eishin Yoza was largely inspired by the 1970s growing up. The art sphere of the 1970s was epitomized by a desire to evolve and strengthen its...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media

Antique English river landscape with figures, boats, swans, London , brown gray
Located in Woodbury, CT
An English river landscape with Swans, boats, barges on the banks of the Thames. A very interesting river landscape composition of figures working on a boat, near a barge on the River Thames, London, circa 1885. Robert Hamilton...
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1880s Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Aesthetic of the Cross
Located in Kansas City, MO
Artist : Ryan Wilks Title : Aesthetic of the Cross Materials : epoxy resin, chrome mirror paint, glass shards on wood board Date : 9-01-2020 Dimensions : 16" x 20" Description : Reimagining traditional depictions of the iconic cross, giving modern aesthetic to an ancient symbol. Epoxy casted, coated in chrome mirror paint and glass shards, light catches this piece from every direction, changing mood throughs the day as light within a space transitions from day to night. Ryan Wilks is a self-taught artist based in Kansas City, Missouri. Their work explores the various realities of queer existence. Primarily creating with oils, watercolors, sculptural assemblage, and ritual, their work sheds light on queer expression of spirituality and sexuality. Their bodies of work address and confront religion used as weapon and explores new modes of prayer through visual and participatory exhibitions. While religious and archetypal iconography such as the Devil and Lilith are seen within their figures in their paintings and used to express gender and queer ideologies, the work itself does not adopt the feeling of weighted religious rites. Instead, the work invites the viewer to participate in a modernized expression of spirit. Through figurative and narrative drawing and painting, through community-based performance ritual and ceremony, Wilks makes art that explores the various realities of queer existence. Gleaning inspiration from centuries old religious iconography and the oral and written histories documenting the queer experience from the beginning of time to their own personal experience today, Wilks' work strives to depict the push/pull, persecute/elevate relationships of humanity, sexuality, and spirituality. The use of more traditional materials and methods in Wilks' painting and drawing is an intentional nod to Italian masters such as Caravaggio, Titian, and Raphael, but it is the playfulness of Matisse’s figures and the contorting figures of Schiele that have influenced their work the most. Ritual and ceremonial performance is an integral aspect of Wilks'art. The use of objects, both found and made, and base elemental ingredients in occult practices are key components to their performances. Through movement, through ceremony, through studied and adaptive ritual, Wilks is able to engage an audience and create moments of sacred memory. Wilks' performance work is created and displayed in tandem with their 2-D work and further explores concepts displayed within their paintings and drawings. Through these methods of creating, engagement, and display of their art, Wilks strives to express the personal narrative of their queer experience, of their peers’, of those who have passed, and, ultimately, for future generations to research, decode, confront, and enjoy. Wilks has exhibited their work in at least 20 different solo exhibitions across the Kansas City Metropolitan area as well as being featured in 18 different publications regarding their work. Wilks' most recent artist residencies include the Artist in Residence program at the Crossroads Hotel, located in the heart of Kansas City's well known Crossroads Arts District, January-February 2020; and the Artist in Residence program at Arts KC, Jun-July 2020. In 2019, Wilks was nominated for "Best Exhibition" in the Pitch KC's annual "Best of KC" year-end round up for their exhibition "Hell", originally shown at Leedy-Voulkos Art Center. painting, watercolor, mixed media, human figure, religion, iconography, cultural commentary, queer art...
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2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings

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Epoxy Resin, Paint, Wood Panel

Signed Victorian British Oil Painting Rocky River Highland Landscape & Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The River Crossing by Richard Sebastian Bond (British 1808-1886), signed and dated 1864 oil painting on canvas: 20 x 30 inches framed: 25 x 35 inches condition: very good and presentable in swept gilt frame provenance: private collection, England A lovely Victorian oil painting on canvas, dating to the 1860's. The painting depicts this Highland landscape with a mother and her children...
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Mid-19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique Scottish Highlands Oil Painting Summer Loch Scene with Mountains
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Summer in the Highlands" by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950) signed lower corner oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 16 x 24 inches Fine quality antique oil painting by the much admired and celebrated British artist F. E. Jamieson (1895-1950). The painting is signed by Jamieson to the lower corner. F. E. Jamieson (1895-1950) We are extremely fortunate to have been handling the works of the enigmatic British artist, F. E. Jamieson since the year we began art dealing, 1989. Over this time, coupled with our love of the Scottish landscape, we have bought and sold many hundreds of his paintings, in all their various guises and subjects and are considered by many to be a leading authority on the artist and his work. We are also in the early stages of publishing the Catalogue Raisonne for this artist, of which this painting will be featured. Mr. Jamieson was largely a painter of Scottish landscapes and loch scenes...
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Early 20th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique English Victorian Harvest time river landscape, with figures and dog
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding Late Victorian English river harvest landscape. John Horace Hooper lived in London. Landscape painter. English School. A prolific artist evidenced by the frequent appea...
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1880s Victorian Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

19th century Austrian Portrait of a young girl in white dress with Red bows
By David Simonson
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful 19th-century Austrian portrait of a young girl in a pretty white and red dress. Simonson was an Austrian painter of portraits and histori...
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1860s Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique Scottish Highlands Signed Oil Painting Loch Achray Trossachs Hotel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Trossachs Hotel, Loch Achray" by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950) signed, lower corner with pseudonym "W. Richards" titled verso to canvas oil painting...
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Early 20th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Femme VII, 2015
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Born in 1951, Eishin Yoza was largely inspired by the 1970s growing up. The art sphere of the 1970s was epitomized by a desire to evolve and strengthen its...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Antique Scottish Highlands Oil Painting Sunset over the Mountain Loch Waters
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Close of Day" by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950) signed lower corner oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 16 x 24 inches Fine quality antique oil painting by the much ...
Category

Early 20th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Figurative Paintings for Sale

Figurative art, as opposed to abstract art, retains features from the observable world in its representational depictions of subject matter. Most commonly, figurative paintings reference and explore the human body, but they can also include landscapes, architecture, plants and animals — all portrayed with realism.

While the oldest figurative art dates back tens of thousands of years to cave wall paintings, figurative works made from observation became especially prominent in the early Renaissance. Artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and other Renaissance masters created naturalistic representations of their subjects.

Pablo Picasso is lauded for laying the foundation for modern figurative art in the 1920s. Although abstracted, this work held a strong connection to representing people and other subjects. Other famous figurative artists include Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Figurative art in the 20th century would span such diverse genres as Expressionism, Pop art and Surrealism.

Today, a number of figural artists — such as Sedrick Huckaby, Daisy Patton and Eileen Cooper — are making art that uses the human body as its subject.

Because figurative art represents subjects from the real world, natural colors are common in these paintings. A piece of figurative art can be an exciting starting point for setting a tone and creating a color palette in a room.

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