Antonio Canella

"A Good Read, Venice, " Watercolor, 19th c. Realist, Small, Richly Detailed

Samuel S. Carr was born in England in 1837. He studied at the Royal School of Design in Chester before immigrating to the United States around 1862, where he settled in Brooklyn, New York. He began exhibiting genre paintings in the 1870s. He was known for his paintings of children, seashore life and pastoral subjects. Carr was a member of the Brooklyn Art...

Marine painter Warren W. Sheppard was born in Greenwich, New Jersey, to a ship captain father who instilled in his son a love and respect for the sea. He studied privately with Mauritz F. H. De Haas and took courses in drawing at Cooper Union in New York City. He traveled along the Mediterranean coast in 1879, sketching the ports of Naples, Gibraltar, Genoa and Messina. Sheppard’s foreign tours continued between 1888 and 1893, with stays in Paris and Venice, where he captured the architecture and busy canals of the Floating City. This fondness for travel also translated to his home country. He sailed along the East Coast from New Jersey to Maine in search of subjects and was an expert navigator, eventually writing the book Practical Navigation. Yacht design became a second career for Sheppard and he participated in a number of sailing competitions himself, most notably winning the New York-to-Bermuda race twice while skipper of the Tamerlane. Sheppard exhibited at the Denver Exposition, Chicago Exposition...

Gabriel Spat was born in Kishinev, Russia, in 1890. Leaving Russia in 1911, he studied at the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Geneva and at the Academie Colarossi and the Academie de la ...

Juliet M. White was born in Philadelphia in 1880. She studied at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, which became the largest art school for women in the United States. Its ...

Born in Philadelphia John Hamilton was known for portraits, figure paintings and illustrations. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Christian Schuessel and Thomas Eakins and then traveled to Europe where he studied in Paris with Jean-Léon Gerome at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. He lived abroad, mostly in London, for many years, although he maintained a Philadelphia address. He was the official painter to the English Prime Minister, William...

Rachel Hartley's maternal grandfather was the acclaimed Tonalist landscape painter George Inness, and her father was sculptor Jonathan Scott Hartley, the primary founder of the Salma...

Unsigned, but it is attributed to Thomas Miles Richardson Jr., R.W.S. (1813 - 1890), since the similar work was sold through Christies in 1998 (same size with signature and date 1861...

A large busy and vibrant watercolour by Thomas Leeson Rowbothom. A lovely Bay of Naples coastal scene which was painted circa 1886. The painting is also signed by J G Ogle who painte...

Market Scene of Oudenaarde Simonau Gustave Bruges 1810 – 1870 Brussels Belgian Painter Signature: Attributed to Simonau Gustave Medium: Aquarelle Dimensions: Image size 60 x 48 cm,...

Landscape Pyrenees original realist watercolor painting Original work on paper by the Spanish artist CABANE Joaquin Cabene. 1922/1993 Painter and watercolorist, Joaquim Cabané traveled in search of inspiration different points of the Spanish and Italian geography, capturing luminous views of the Catalan and Majorcan coasts, urban landscapes of Venice...

Landscape Pyrenees original realist watercolor painting Original work on paper by the Spanish artist CABANE Joaquin Cabene. 1922/1993 Painter and watercolorist, Joaquim Cabané trave...

Early 20th Century European School, view of the city, with buildings in the background, gouache on paper unsigned in a beautiful custom made Haydenryk frame under glass.