Carl Lasch

The Butterfly, 19th c, German, Realism, Genre Scene, Children, Landscape

John William Buxton Knight was born in Sevenoaks, Kent, in 1843, the son of the landscape painter, William Knight.  Buxton Knight began his art studies at an early age by working in ...

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...

William Frederick Witherington was born in London in 1785. In 1805, he began his studies at the Royal Academy Schools. He first exhibited at the British Institution in 1808, and at the Royal Academy in 1811, where he continued to exhibit almost every year. He also exhibited for several years at the Birmingham Society of Arts. He travelled around England painting views of rural life in Devon, Kent, Wales and the Lake District. During the 18th and 19th centuries the hop gardens of Kent, Sussex and Surrey provided artists with a rich source of subject matter. The picking season was the English equivalent of the French and Italian grape...

Listed German landscape and marine painter Carl Johannes "Hans" Schleich was born in Stettin in 1834. Schleich studied at the Berlin Academy of Art under Hermann Eschke...

Reuben Hunt British, (1857-1938) Taking Aim Oil on canvas, signed & dated (18)84 Image size: 19.5 inches x 29.5 inches Size including frame: 25.25 inches ...

Amédée Elié Servin — (1829-1884) : Children playing in a forest A nice and confidently painted scene of three children playing in the midst of a dark forest. Through clever use of colour and light and dark effects, Elié Servin creates a mysterious and fairytale-like scene in which all attention is drawn to the playing children. Amédée-Élie Servin (1829-1884) Servin Amédée-Élie was a French painter and engraver, founder of the artistic community of Villiers-sur-Morin. Servin was born to a tanner, who, disappointed by his son's failure in his studies, apprenticed him to an upholsterer where he learned to draw cartoons. He then entered the École des Beaux-Arts and studied under the painter Michel Martin Drolling. At this school, he befriended students of his generation, such as Jean-Jacques Henner, Benjamin Ulmann and Paul Baudry...

A rare antique Italian portrait of two children posed inside a villa against a landscape. This unsigned but beautiful work comes house in contemporary frame added to the work to e...

Victorian Landscape and Figurative Oil painting on Canvas of Children and Mother in River Landscape. Beautiful typically Victorian Family Scene. Oil on Canvas by Ernest Walbourn (1872 - 1927) mounted on stretchers and signed on the reverse, framed in a traditional gold frame. Walbourn, who along with his wife Eva, was a 19th Century genre painter. It is said that his wife often did the backgrounds and he painted the figures. Certainly she is more known for her florals pictures...