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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 18th Century
Period: Early 1900s
Presumed portrait of Baron de Vennac
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Marianne LOIR (Paris 1705 – Paris 1783) Presumed portrait of Jean-Jacques-Blaise Baloin de Belvèse, Baron de Vennac (?-1781) Oil on oval canvas H. 54.5 cm; W. 46 cm (around 90 cm hig...
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1770s French School Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique oil on canvas painting depicting Venus and Adonis coveted "Boucher." France
Located in Torre Del Greco, IT
Antique oil on canvas painting depicting Venus and Adonis. The painting depicts in a sublimated atmosphere the death of Adonis, the young man loved by Venus, who was mortally wounde...
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Mid-18th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas

A very rare pair of Italian scagliola panels, mid-18th century
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Panel 1 (with boats below arch): 50x37cm; 60x47cm (framed) Panel 2 (with cliffs): 44.5x34cm; 54x44cm (framed) These panels are fine examples of the scagliola technique, perfected by...
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Mid-18th Century Figurative Paintings

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Stone

Presumed portrait of Princess de Conti, Marie-Anne de Bourbon
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Nicolas de LARGILLIERRE (Paris 1656 – 1746) Portrait of a woman, presumed to be Marie-Anne de Bourbon, Princess of Conti (1666-1739) Oil on oval canvas H. 80 cm; L. 61 cm (107 x 91 c...
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1730s French School Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique Neapolitan oil on canvas painting depicting the allegory of summer.
Located in Torre Del Greco, IT
This important eighteenth-century painting can be attributed to the exquisite production of the Neapolitan school of the first half of the eighteenth century. Indeed, the splendid w...
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Early 18th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas

Judith with the Head of Holofernes, Antique Oil Painting after Cristofano Allori
By Alessandro di Cristofano Allori
Located in Berlin, DE
Judith with the head of Holofernes, antique oil painting after Cristofano Allori. Painting has been restored. Dimensions without f...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Cuzco School 18th Century Oil - The Madonna
Located in Corsham, GB
An interesting 18th century study of the Madonna in oil, painted in the Cuzco School style. Unsigned. On tin.
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Early 18th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of a Russian Officer
Located in Milford, NH
A finely detailed oil painting on canvas portrait of an unidentified Russian officer, dating to the 18th or 19th century, unsigned, and housed in a spectacular museum quality reprodu...
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18th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Military Encampment Soldiers on Horseback Dusk Landscape 1700's Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Military Encampment Circle of Carel van Falens (1683-1733, Flemish) oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 8 x 10.5 inches provenance: private collection, UK condition: very good and so...
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

John Henries, N.Y. '09, Playful Young Boys and Older Tradesman With Horse
Located in San Francisco, CA
John Henries N.Y. '09 Playful Young Boys and Older Tradesman With Horse Oil on canvas 24.5 x 31.5 unframed
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Early 1900s Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Pair of 18th century Italian Still Life Paintings of Flowers
Located in Rome, IT
Pair of very decorative Italian Still-life paintings of flowers with vases and classical figures . 18th century, oil on canvas, with original gilt-wood frames. This pair is an exce...
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18th Century Baroque Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Figurative mythological painting Emilian school of the eighteenth century oil on canvas
Located in Florence, IT
Mythological-themed painting (unframed 35.5 x 28 cm) depicting the episode of Diana and Actaeon from Ovid's Metamorphoses. The goddess is depicted sitting in discreet attire, the bow...
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1780s Rococo Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique oil on panel painting depicting Pentecost. Lombardy 18th century
Located in Torre Del Greco, IT
Antique oil on panel painting of the Lombard school depicting Pentecost. This lively 18th-century painting depicts in a very scenic way the Gospel episode of Pentecost, or the Desce...
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18th Century Figurative Paintings

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Board

Manner of Francois Boucher - 18th Century Oil, Lovers in Autumn
Located in Corsham, GB
A romantic oil study depicting a couple resting on a woodland floor feeding each other fruit. The scene appears to be a play on the Four Seasons series by François Boucher where the...
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Early 18th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Dipinto Ester al Cospetto di Assuero, fine XVIII secolo
Located in Milan, IT
Olio su tela. Scuola centro-europea della fine XVIII secolo. La scena racconta un episodio biblico ampiamente riproposto nell'arte pittorica, tratto dal libro di Ester: la giovane i...
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Late 18th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Oil

1700's Venetian Old Master Ink Drawing St. Marks Lion Angelic Figures Flowers
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Lion of St. Mark Venetian Old Master, mid 18th century circle of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venetian, 1696-1770) ink and watercolour drawing on paper mounted on a card frame, unf...
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Mid-18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor

Hunting Scene, 18th century
By Philipp Peter Roos (Rosa di Tivoli)
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Northern European school of the 18th century. The large scene, set in a northern landscape of dense vegetation under blue-blue impervious peaks, depicts the climax of ...
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18th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Rococò French master - Pair of 18th century figure paintings - Oil on panel
Located in Varmo, IT
French master (18th century) - Mythological grisailles. 53.5 x 46.5 cm without frame, 63.5 x 56.5 cm with frame. Pair of ancient oil paintings on wood, in carved and gilded wooden ...
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Late 18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings

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Panel, Oil

Fine Impressionist Oil Painting Portrait of Bearded Man Amazing Frame d. 1901
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of J. Knowles inscribed and dated to label verso oil on canvas, framed in hand painted elaborate frame framed: 25 x 22 inches canvas: 22 x 1...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

c. 1900 Catholic Painting of Madonna and Child Enthroned
Located in Larchmont, NY
Madonna and Child Enthroned, c. 1900 Oil/tempera on canvas 42 1/2 x 20 3/4 in. Framed: 45 3/8 x 23 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.
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Early 1900s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas

Scholar Sharpening His Quill Penn Attributed to Justus Juncker, Oil on Panel
Located in Stockholm, SE
Justus Juncker (1703-1763, Germany) Attributed to Scholar Sharpening His Quill Penn Expertise: We would like to thank Dr. Fred G Meijer for his valuab...
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oak, Oil, Panel

Follower of Pietro da Cortona- 18th-19th century painting - Venus Aeneas - Italy
Located in Varmo, IT
Follower of Pietro da Cortona (18th-19th century) - Venus appears to Aeneas as a huntress. 50 x 60 cm without frame, 80.5 x 90 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, in a c...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

At the Foot of the Statue - Scottish art Impressionist figurative oil painting
Located in London, GB
A fine large oil painting by Scottish listed artist William Strang. This is a super evocative oil on canvas which depicts a family at "The Foot of the Statue". It was exhibited in 1904 in Bradford exhibition of fine arts lent by L W Hodson of Wolverhampton who was a patron of his work. This is a fine example of an early 20th century Scottish oil with good subject. It is a good size and signed. This wouldn't be out of place in Kelvingrove Gallery in Glasgow. Signed lower left. Provenance. Bradford Art Gallery 1904. Sotheby 19th June 2002 Guide price £20000-30000GBP. Condition. Oil on canvas. Image size 30 inches by 25 inches and in excellent condition. Housed in a fine period frame, 39 by 34 inches framed and in good condition. William Strang (1859-1921) was born at Dumbarton, the son of Peter Strang, builder, and educated at the Dumbarton Academy. He worked for fifteen months in the counting-house of a firm of shipbuilders before going to London in 1875 when he was sixteen. There he studied art under Alphonse Legros at the Slade School for six years. Strang became assistant master in the etching class, and had great success as an etcher. He was one of the original members of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, and his work was a part of their first exhibition in 1881. Some of his early plates were published in The Portfolio and other art magazines. He worked in many manners, etching, dry point, mezzotint, sand-ground mezzotint, and burin engraving. Lithography and wood-cutting were also used by him to create pictures. He cut a large wood engraving of a man ploughing, later published by the Art for Schools Association. A privately produced catalogue of his engraved work contained more than three hundred items. Amongst his earlier works were Tinkers, St. Jerome, A Woman Washing Her Feet, An Old Book-stall with a Man Lighting His Pipe from a Flare, and The Head of a Peasant Woman on sand-ground mezzotint. Later plates such as Hunger, The Bachelor's End and The Salvation Army were also important. Some of his best etchings were done as series—one of the earliest, illustrating poet William Nicholson's Ballad of Aken Drum, is remarkable for clear, delicate workmanship in the shadow tones, showing great skill and power over his materials, and for strong drawing. Another praised series was The Pilgrim's Progress, revealing austere sympathy with John Bunyan's teaching. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Strang's own Allegory of Death and The Plowman's Wife, have served him with suitable imaginative subjects. Some of Rudyard Kipling's stories were also illustrated by him, and his likeness of Kipling was one of his most successful portrait plates. Other etched portraits included those of Ernest Sichel and of J.B. Clark, with whom Strang collaborated in illustrating Baron Munchausen...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Figures Dancing Classical Ancient Ruins & Landscape Large Old Master Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Revelry in a Classical Landscape Italian School, early 18th century (circa 1700) oil painting on canvas, laid on board, unframed board: 20 x 36 inches provenan...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Felice Boscarati (Venice) - 18th century figure painting - Paesan portrait Italy
Located in Varmo, IT
Felice Boscarati (Verona 1721 - Venice 1807) - The noble weaver. 71 x 52 cm without frame, 80 x 62 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, in a carved wooden frame. Conditi...
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Late 18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

18th Century Cavalry Military Battle Encampment Soldiers on Horseback French Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Military Encampment French Old Master, circa 1700 oil on canvas, framed framed: 20 x 27 inches canvas: 17.5 x 24 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very goo...
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Early 1700s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Virgen del Carmen
Located in Miami, FL
Colonial School, Mexico, XVIII Century "Virgen del Carmen" Oil on canvas 70 x 40 in
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Baroque Italian painter - 18th century painting - Landscape figures
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (18th century) - River landscape with characters. 58 x 79 cm without frame, 72 x 94 cm with frame. Oil on canvas applied on board, in a lacquered wooden frame. Con...
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Early 18th Century Baroque Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Depicting the annunciation of the shepherds
Located in San Francisco, CA
Continental school Oil on canvas Depicting the annunciation of the shepherds 18th/19th century No visible signature Realigned/restored 26.5 x 30.5
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18th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Insubria
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Insubria' Italian School, 18th century ink and wash drawing on paper, framed within a light oak wood frame (behind glass) image size: 10.5 x 7 inches overall framed: 17 x 13 inches ...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Ink, Archival Paper

Portrait of a gentleman in red military uniform
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
David Morier (1705-1770) Portrait of a gentleman in red military uniform Oil on canvas Canvas Size - 32 x 24 in Framed Size - 39 1/2 x 31 in Provenance: Sale, Christie's London, 21s...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Fine Georgian Oil Painting British Portrait of 18th Century Gentleman
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Gentleman English School, late 18th century oil on canvas, framed framed: 29 x 23.5 inches canvas: 26 x 19.5 inches provenance: private collection, England condition: ...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Baroque style painter (Italian school) - 18th-19th century figure painting
Located in Varmo, IT
Neapolitan painter (18th-19th century) - Penitent Magdalene with two cherubs. 100 x 80 cm without frame, 129.5 x 109.5 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, in a carved wo...
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Late 18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Large 18th Century European Oil Painting Portrait of Noble Lady Lace Collars
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Noble Lady European School, 18th century oil on canvas, framed framed: 37.5 inches canvas: 30 x 24.5 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good ...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Fine 18th Century Italian Old Master Oil Painting Berghers with Animals Sunset
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Close of Day Italian School, early 18th century oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 17 x 22.5 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and sound condition
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Children Playing on The Slide, Ashcan School - Lower East Side
Located in Miami, FL
Immigrant children from New York's Lower East Side are joyfully captured whizzing down on a slide. From the window of a tenement building, a lone adult with child witnesses the foli...
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Early 1900s Ashcan School Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

San Francisco Javier
Located in Miami, FL
Colonial School, Mexico, XVIII Century "San Francisco Javier" Oil on canvas 18 x 14 in.
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Canal Scene, Possibly Paris. Painted Early 1900s
Located in Stockholm, SE
For sale is a captivating painting by the Swedish artist, Rikard Lindström (1882-1943). Depicting a picturesque water canal, with charming houses lini...
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Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Laid Paper

17-18 century, Original Antique Oil Painting in canvas, Genre Scene, Gold Frame
Located in Framingham, MA
Up for sale is a very interesting antique 17/18 centuries original oil painting on canvas depicting a genre scene with a gentleman in black robes is approached by two elderly men a...
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Mid-18th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Yelow tulips. Colorful expressionist still-life: flowers, tea try. Oil on canvas
Located in Segovia, ES
Yelow tulips (Tulipanes amarillos). Oil on canvas by Chico Montilla. Measurements: (H) 81 x (W) 100 x 2 cm. Framed 104 x 123 x 6 cm. Colorful expressionist still-life with flowers a...
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Early 1900s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Fine 18th Century Italian Old Master Drawing Mother & Children
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Giovanni Battista Cipriani, RA, Italian 1727-1785 Sketch of a mother with three children; black and red chalk on laid paper with watermark '© TAYLOR', 22.4 x 17.5 cm. Provenanc...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Chalk

Sunset, Sables - Figurative Realist Oil, Boats in Seascape -Georges Maroniez
By Georges Maroniez
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed realist oil on canvas seascape circa 1900 by French painter Georges Philibert Charles Maroniez. This stunning painting depicts two fishermen looking out over the harbour at Le...
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Early 1900s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Interior and pipe smoker
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood Brown wooden frame 49 x 58 x 4 cm
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Late 18th Century Dutch School Figurative Paintings

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Oil

La Anunciación
Located in Miami, FL
Anonymous Artist "La Anunciación" from the 18th Century. Oil on Copper 21.5 x 15.7 inches Perfect Condition It represents the moment when Mary accepts the divine designs transmitted by the archangel Saint...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Copper

La Sagrada Familia
Located in Miami, FL
José de Páez (1727-1790) Colonial Mexican painting from the 18th century. Conserved in excellent condition. "La Sagrada Familia" Oil on Copper 8 x 12 in ...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Copper

Neoclassical painter - 18th-19th century figure painting - Mythological - Italy
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (18th-19th century) - Mythological scene. 100 x 100 cm without frame, 131.5 x 131.5 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, in a carved and gilded wooden fra...
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Late 18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Octave Linet (1870-1962) Landscape by the river, oil on board signed
Located in Paris, FR
Octave Linet (1870-1962) Landscape by the river, signed lower left oil on board on the back a pencil study of the Virgin and Child 25 x 33 cm In good condition In a vintage frame ...
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Early 1900s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Antique Roman painter - 18th century landscape painting - Wanderers - Italy
Located in Varmo, IT
Roman painter (18th century) - Landscape with wayfarers. 43.5 x 34.5 cm without frame, 58.5 x 49.5 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, in carved and gilded wooden frame....
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Architectural whimsy with Roman ruins, column and ancient arches.
Located in Firenze, IT
Architectural whimsy with Roman ruins, column and ancient arches. Year 1718. Oil on Canvas. Original canvas. Roman school of the early 18th century. The painting is part of the seri...
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Early 18th Century Italian School Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Antique Italian painter - 18th century figure painting - Saint crucifix
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (18th century) - Saint with crucifix. 65 x 50 cm without frame, 78 x 64 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, in a gilded wooden frame. Condition report: ...
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Mid-18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

The Serving - British Old Master 18th century oil painting historical interior
By (Circle of) William Hogarth
Located in London, GB
A superb British Old Master oil painting which is attributed to circle of William Hogarth and was painted circa 1760. This fine oil painting is in good clean condition and depicts a ...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Animated Farm and Windmill Scenery
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Black wooden frame 51 x 73 x 5 cm
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18th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Luigi Lucioni attr. Traditional American Still Life, 20th century
Located in Larchmont, NY
Attributed to Luigi Lucioni Untitled (Still Life), c. 1900 Oil on canvas 30 x 26 in. Framed: 34.5 x 30 in. Born in Malnate, Italy, in 1900, Luigi Lucioni became one of America's well-known landscape painters, whose work has been noted for its heightened realism and photographic attention to detail. Lucioni immigrated to the United States with his family in 1911. In 1915 he won a competition which allowed him to attend Cooper Union, and he began studying there with William Starkweather. In 1920, he studied with William Auerbach Levy...
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Early 1900s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Oil Painting by Augustus Mulready "Visitors to London"
Located in Mere, GB
Oil Painting by Augustus Mulready "Visitors to London" 1844 - 1905 Member of the Cranbrook colony painting figurative street scenes, regular exhibito royal Academy. Oil on board. Sig...
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Early 1900s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Ship Leaving the Bay at Sunrise French Seascape 18th century Rococo Oil Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
Attributed Charles François Grenier de Lacroix or Charles - François Lacroix de Marseille (1700 - 1782) as signed lower left on the stone “Lacroix”. The scene of the departure of nobles on a ship, somewhere among the Mediterranean landscapes at sunrise. Lacroix's sense of color and attention to detail are particularly impressive: the sea is calm, the sun is rising and as a soft pink hue begins to emerge in the clouds, the morning haze has not yet cleared and the air is clear and clean, large ship...
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Late 18th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Oil

Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Figure Fame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Fame' Italian School, 18th century ink and wash drawing on paper, framed within a light oak wood frame (behind glass) image size: 10.5 x 7 inches overall framed: 17 x 13 inches cond...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Ink, Archival Paper

Still life with fruits on a shelf Oil painting on canvas Paolo Paoletti
Located in Milan, IT
Paolo Paoletti (Padua, 1671 - Udine, 1735) Still life with fruits on a shelf Oil on canvas, 53.5 x 81 cm Expert opinion Dr. Gianluca Bocchi The still life under consideration can...
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18th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Paint, Oil

Battle scene Oil painting on canvas Attributed to Karel Breydel
Located in Milan, IT
Attr. to Karel Breydel, known as the Knight of Antwerp (1678 - 1733) Battle with knights and landscape in the background Oil on canvas, cm 44.5 X 36.7 Frame 52.5 x 45 cm The pain...
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Late 18th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Paint, 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.

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