Elburt McGran Jackson

(Untitled) A Scandalous Tea with a Stranger in Leiderstein

1935

Pair of 19th Century "Gambling" Oil Paintings After Adriaen van Ostade Each painting shows men gambling in a cellar Original oil on canvas Dimensions 10" wide x 12" high The orna...

Charles Gresham "Reading by the Window" Original Oil Painting c.1970 Fine vintage oil painting by San Francisco artist and philanthropist Charles Gres...

Roberto Bompiani (Italy, 1821-1908) "The Confirmation" Museum Quality Oil Painting circa 1871 Extraordinary oil painting by listed Italian artist. T...

Henry Charles Hannig "Mother and Daughter" Original Oil Painting C.1930 Original oil on panel Dimensions 15" wide x 18" high The lightly distressed frame measures 18" wide x 21" h...

This oil painting is a portrait of artist Page Ogden capturing a moment in time when she was sitting at a table reading a book by American artist John Hardy.

A large (48 x 48 inch) painting of a scene in the art studio by American artist John Winslow (1938 - ).

Oil on canvas STATEMENT by AUDREY ANASTASI: Considering myself primarily a feminist artist, painting other women, most of my work focuses on the human face, figures, animals and natu...

In the latter half of the nineteenth century and into the first decade of the twentieth, New York City art aficionados could count on finding recent work of Seymour Joseph Guy hanging on the walls of the city’s major galleries. Primarily a genre artist, but also a portraitist, between 1859 and 1908 Guy showed more than seventy works at the National Academy of Design. From 1871 to 1903 he contributed over seventy times to exhibitions at the Century Club. From 1864 to 1887, he sent about forty pictures to the Brooklyn Art Association. A good number of these works were already privately owned; they served as advertisements for other pictures that were available for sale. Some pictures were shown multiple times in the same or different venues. Guy was as easy to find as his canvases were omnipresent. Though he lived at first in Brooklyn with his family and then in New Jersey, from 1863 to his death in 1910 he maintained a studio at the Artist’s Studio Building at 55 West 10th Street, a location that was, for much of that period, the center of the New York City art world. Guy’s path to a successful career as an artist was by no means smooth or even likely. Born in Greenwich, England, he was orphaned at the age of nine. His early interest in art was discouraged by his legal guardian, who wanted a more settled trade for the young man. Only after the guardian also died was Guy free to pursue his intention of becoming an artist. The details of Guy’s early training in art are unclear. His first teacher is believed to have been Thomas Buttersworth...