Martha Tracy Frey

'She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not', Girl in a Gingham Dress, 1940's, Folk Art

1944

Signed lower right, 'Richmond' for George Richmond, RA (British, 1809 – 1896) and painted circa 1845. Displayed in a period, carved and giltwood frame. (Framed dimensions: 22.75 x 21.5 x 1.0) This English painter and portraitist was a founding member of The Ancients, a group of followers of William Blake. Later in life, he established himself as a successful society portrait painter of the British gentry, nobility and royalty. George Richmond was the son of Thomas Richmond the miniature-painter and, also, the father of the painter William Blake Richmond. For a short time, he attended a day school in Soho, before became a student at London's Royal Academy. Here he was much impressed by Henry Fuseli, his professor of painting, and formed a lifelong friendship with Samuel Palmer, and had as fellow-students and companions Edward Calvert...

Signed lower left, 'J. Reid' (American, 19th century) and dated 1869. Additionally inscribed, lower right, 'J. A. Scholten, Pho.' for John A. Scholten (American, 1829-1886) A period and substantial oil portrait by J. Reid from a John Scholten photograph showing an elegantly-dressed young woman playing a classical guitar and gazing directly and with confidence towards the viewer. Viewed through a window across a stone balustrade, a Neoclassical landscape, with broad river and distant riverbank, rests beneath sunset clouds. J. Reid was a portrait painter active from the 1820's through the 1860's. John A. Scholten maintained photography studios in both St Louis and Cincinnati and was a much sought-after society portraitist and photographer of bridal parties...

Signed center left, 'Christine Sundberg' (Swedish, 1837-1892) and dated 1888. Displayed in a period golden maple frame; Framed dimensions: 25.5 x 1...

Signed lower center, "Mancini"; additionally signed verso and painted circa 1975. Figurative oil in crimson, vermilion, jade, and deep blue, showing a young woman wearing a hat with...

Faintly signed lower right, 'D. Mayernik' for David Mayernik (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1985. A period, Post-Impressionist style study of a woman in a turban looking proudly upwards. A warm and engaging piece by a bravura hand. Artist, design architect, author and educator David Mayernik studied fresco painting with restorer Leonetto Tintori and has painted frescoes for the TASIS campus in Lugano, churches in Ticino and Tuscany, and the Palio...

Signed lower right, 'Di Gesu' for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and dated 1971; additionally signed, verso, and titled, 'Leslie'. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di G...

Family genre scene late 19th early 20th century. The boy, tired of posing for a portrait painter, decided to play by spinning a coin on the table, this game greatly impressed his you...

Dave Seeley's "Fiona #1" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a female model holding purple velvet fabric tightly around her form to reveal the curves of her figure. ...

Tina Garrett's (US based) "Magique Noir" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a model with a painted face. This is a secondary market work with one previous owner.

Mid-Century realist oil on card of a peasant woman, dated 1963 to the reverse. Artist unknown. Presented in gilt and painted wood frame under glass. A charming, grounded painting of...

Realistic portrait of an older pair of Jewish shtetl types in a warm discussion by Polish artist. Here the artist conveys a sense of quiet grandeur through the eyes of his subject an...

Realistic portrait of an old Jewish shtetl type pulpit rabbi by a Polish artist. Here the artist conveys a sense of quiet grandeur through the eyes of his subject and the way it's re...