Henri van Seban

The Snowball Fight, 19th Century, Belgian, Realism, Figural, Children, Winter

Born in Baltimore in 1844, Franklin D. Briscoe moved with his family to Philadelphia where he studied with Thomas Moran in 1860 before traveling to Europe. During his time in Europe,...

Carl Johann Lasch was born in 1822 in Leipzig, Germany. Lasch was known for his historical and genre paintings. He attended the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts where he studied with Edu...

"Crossing a Stream in the Highlands" featuring children and their dog wading through a mountain stream was painted by the British artist, Edward Holmes, in 1880. Holmes was born in 1841, the brother of renowned Victorian genre painter, George Augustus Holmes...

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...

George Nemethy finds his inspiration in moments of quiet and solitude. Where he finds himself one with the sea and the sky and the tranquil world which he freely escapes to. Trained from an early age by his father Albert Nemethy, a world-renowned painter known best for his large scale steamer boats, George found...

Girbent stuns with this work. He creates a photorealistic portrait by focusing on the subject while the rest of the painting appears out of focus. The eye can only focus on one thin...

Venetian harbor scene with St Marks in the background oil on oak panel. Exceptional quality. Signed illegibly lower left. From an old Philadelphia collection. ...

Michael Magrin's ( US based) "Colorado Sunset" is an original, handmade oil painting of a moody sunset. This piece is framed in a natural float frame an...