Jean-Fran�_ois Portaels

Maiden of the harvest

Frank Dobson RA (British, 1886 – 1963) Newlyn girl Oil on panel 9.3/4 x 13.3/4 in. (24.7 x 35.5 cm.) Provenance: From the collection of Janet Beat Bonhams London Frank Dobson (1886...

Paul Stephens (British, b.1957) Seaside - St. Michael's Mount Cornwall Oil on panel Signed `P Stephens’ (lower left) 23.5/8 x 23.5/8 in. (60 x 60 cm.)

Simeon Stafford (British, b.1956) Cambourne rally Oil on panel Signed and dated `SIMEON!/14.1.21’ (lower right) further signed on the reverse of the panel 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.3 cm.) Simeon Stafford is a British Painter, born in 1956 he started painting at age 14. He was encouraged to paint by LS...

Jenny Ogg (British school, 20th Century) Sunbathing oil on panel signed 'J Ogg' (lower right) and bearing label for Grants Fine Art Gallery Newcastle (to the reverse)

Amerino Cagnoni (Italian, 1855-1923) Luci della sera (Evening Lights), Milan oil on panel signed `ACagnoni/1916’ (lower right) 16.1/8 x 27.1/2 in. (41 x 70 cm.) He initially studied classical education, but abandoned studies to take a job as director of a textile mill in Brianza, then moved to Asti as secretary of a wealthy family. At age 19 he enrolled as a student of Brera Academy, where he stayed for seven years. He painted The daughter of Curzio Pichena, a subject from the novel by Guerazzi. His Episode of the War of Italian Independence...

Paul Maitland (British, 1863 – 1909) Nannies in Green Park, before Piccadilly, London Oil on panel 7.5/8 x 11.3/8 in. (19.4 x 29 cm.) . In a gilded woo...

Provenance: with Leo Blumenreich and Julius Böhler, Munich, 1924 Dr. Frederic Goldstein Oppenheimer (1881-1963), San Antonio, Texas; by whom given to: Abraham M. Adler, New York, un...

Inscribed, reverse: Fr Brina Provenance: Private Collection, New Jersey. Francesco Brina was one of the “Studiolo” painters, responsible for the panel of Neptune and Amphitrite in F...

A recent, large work by the masterful Giancarlo Impiglia, whose value has been steadily increasing. Born in Rome, Impiglia moved to New York in the 70s, where he established a signa...

Hercules and Omphale Oil on panel, 52 x 41 cm According to legend, Hercules had to make atonement and became a slave to the Lydian queen Omphale. When she found out who her slave was, she married him. Falling for his mistress and made effeminate by the luxury of court life, the former hero allowed himself to become the laughing stock of the court. He dressed in women's clothes, spun wool and did other women's work, whereas Omphale wore his lion's skin and carried a wooden club. When the time of punishment was over, the hero realised his delusion and left Omphale. So far, the painting could not be clearly assigned to an artist. Nevertheless, it impresses with its fluid and convincing painting, whose colourfulness and conception are reminiscent of the Prague School around Bartholomäus Spranger. This work follows an engraving and an etching made by Michel Dorigny in 1643 after a design by Simon Vouet. It shows the same scene but the print differs in minor details from the present painting (see e.g. the head of the lion) and the treatment of the faces seems to be painted more detailed and refined. So far there is no painting...

Isaac and Rebecca had two sons: the twins Esau and Jacob. Esau was the first-born, giving him the birthright. Among Jews the birthright gave the eldest son authority over the family,...

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