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Period: 1870s
Tombs of the Sultans - 19th Century Orientalist Oil Painting Royal Academy 1873
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Tombs of the Sultans’ by Frank Dillon R.I. R.O.I. (1823-1909).
The painting – which depicts the ancient Egyptian “City of the Dead” outside the old walls of Cairo – is signed by th...
Category
English School 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
View of Culver Cliff, Isle of Wright - Oil paint attr. William Dyce - 1873
Located in Roma, IT
Oil and tempera on cardboard attributed to William Dyce and realized in 1873.
Hand titled and dated lower right.
Includes a modern gilded wooden frame, cm. 23.5x32.5.
Category
Modern 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Tempera
Victorian English Signed Oil Painting 1870's Rural Country Landscape Gilt Framed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The English Rural Landscape
by Charles Collins (British, circa 1870's)
signed & dated
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 17 x 24 inches
canvas: 12 x 18 inches
Provenance: private collecti...
Category
English School 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Poor Girl – An Early Genre Scene by Julius Kronberg, 1873
Located in Stockholm, SE
This small, tenderly rendered painting— titled The Poor Girl (Den fattiga flickan)—offers a rare glimpse into Julius Kronberg’s early period, when he w...
Category
Realist 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1870's Antique Italian Hunting Scene trompe l’oeil Oil Painting Birds Game Gold
Located in Buffalo, NY
This striking 19th-century painting signed "A. Malevolti 1877 Florence" is a fine example of the trompe l’oeil tradition, in which artists skillfully render imagery that "tricks the ...
Category
Photorealist 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
19th century English landscape with Cottage
Located in Woodbury, CT
Charles Morris (British, active mid-19th century)
Rustic Landscape with Herdsman and Cottage, ca. 1860–1870
Oil on canvas
In this tranquil rural view, Charles Morris presents an idy...
Category
Victorian 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"On the Riverbank" Arthur Parton, Hudson River School, Glowing Atmospheric Work
By Arthur Parton
Located in New York, NY
Arthur Parton
On the Riverbank
Signed lower left
Oil on canvas
30 x 38 inches
Arthur Parton was born on March 26, 1842, in Hudson, New York. He attended the Pennsylvania Academy of...
Category
Hudson River School 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Harvest Time by Hjalmar Sandberg, Swedish Artist, Oil on Canvas, Signed, 1876
Located in Stockholm, SE
Hjalmar Sandberg (1847-1888) Sweden
Harvest Time, 1876
oil on canvas
canvas size 14.96 x 18.11 inches (38 x 46 cm)
frame 18.70 x 25.59 inches (47.5 ...
Category
Impressionist 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century English Impressionist Oil Painting Girls & Dogs on Beach in Spring
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘A Breeze after a Bathe’ by Walter Duncan ARWS (1847-1932).
The painting – which depicts three young Victorian ladies and their dogs on Bournemouth beach after a swim – is signed b...
Category
Impressionist 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th century English marine of Dutch or English boats off a coastline
By James Webb
Located in Woodbury, CT
This James Webb English marine painting, circa 1870, is a masterpiece of atmospheric charm and technical precision that would appeal profoundly to an interior designer or fine art co...
Category
Victorian 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
A Portrait of Lord Leighton. Antique oil on canvas
Located in St. Albans, GB
Richard Waller
1811 - 1882
Canvas Size: 24 x 20" (60 x 50cm)
Frame Size: 31" x 27" (77.5 x 67.5cm)
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated 1872
London painter of portraits and suggestive sub...
Category
Victorian 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Edward William Cooke RA, West-Country Cove With Cottages, Family & Donkeys
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This idyllic late 19th-century oil painting by English artist Edward William Cooke RA (1811-1880) depicts a west-country cove with two cottages, donkeys, figures, and fishing boats. Cooke was a highly renowned painter of marine scenes and landscapes who exhibited extensively at London’s Royal Academy.
From our elevated vantage point, the view extends between two quaint cottages and across the beach before sweeping around the sandy coastline. Crystalline waters lap the shore, where moored craft rest. It’s an accomplished rendering of a challenging composition. It’s enhanced by trees, which essentially ‘frame’ the right side, while a wooded track provides interest on the left.
Cooke was a keen admirer of the Dutch old masters, and the spirit of the Golden Age underpins this splendid work. In diaries, he recorded how he travelled by donkey to access elevated spots in the southwest, so it’s conceivable that he did so here. In his catalogue raisonné, it lists a work from the same year titled ‘Bay with Donkeys’.
Born in Pentonville, London, Cooke was raised in the company of accomplished artists as both his father, George Cooke (1781-1834), and his uncle, William Bernard Cooke (1778-1855), were engravers. As such, they were associated with a circle of Victorian painters who aided Cooke’s early development. These included the highly regarded marine painter Clarkson Frederick Stanfield RA RBA (1793-1867), who provided frequent advice and inspiration. Indeed, as a teenager, Cooke produced numerous drawings after Stanfield’s works.
A precocious talent, by the age of nine, he was already displaying an advanced understanding of engraving, particularly for ships, coupled with a natural, seemingly in-built skill as a draughtsman. Many of his early drawings depict pastoral landscapes after the masters, such as Nicolaes Berchem (1620-1683), Paulus Potter (1625-1654), and Karel Dujardin (1626-1678).
In an extraordinary turn of events, in 1820, his advanced abilities led to his first commission when he provided botanical illustrations for John Loudon's 'Encyclopaedia of Plants’. These were followed by drawings published in the 'Botanical Cabinet...
Category
Victorian 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Rose
Located in St. Albans, GB
'The Rose'
Canvas Size: 38.5 x 28" (98 x 71cm)
Outside Frame Size: 48.5 x 38 (123 x 97cm)
Oil on canvas
Emile CHARLET
1851 - 1890
Born 1851 in Belg...
Category
Impressionist 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$11,800
English 19thC Victorian Shipping scene with fishing boats in the English Channel
Located in Woodbury, CT
William Thornley was a painter of coastal scenes whose work is very similar to Hubert and Charles Thornley, who may have been members of the same family. He painted scenes of genre, architecture and landscapes as well. A number of the landscapes were of Belgium, Holland, Italy and Norway. However, it is for his seascapes that he is best remembered.
Thornley’s works are beautifully detailed and show a masterful understanding of the moods of both weather and sea. They are often small in size and put together with fine detail and great artistic merit. Thornley’s fishing scenes are spirited and similar in style to those of “Jock” Wilson, and are often painted in pairs. Thornley’s works have always been popular when they appear on the art market.
He was believed to have first exhibited marines at the Royal Academy in 1859 from an address in Paddington, London and also at the British Institution from 1861 until it closed in 1867. He continued to exhibit at the Royal Academy until 1898.
Thornley also exhibited at the Paris Salon and the Salon of French Artists, receiving an honourable mention in 1881 and a third place medal in 1888.
William Thornley also went by the names Georges William and William...
Category
Victorian 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Oil On Canvas Family Portrait After Sir Anthony Van Dyck ca 1870
Located in Gavere, BE
"Oil On Canvas Family Portrait After Sir Anthony Van Dyck"
After Sir Anthony van Dyck (Flemish painter, 1599-1641), Group of three young girls with a bust of Mercury Oil on canvas (doubled),
probably end 19th century, with French wax seal...
Category
Baroque 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Antique Dutch 19th century ships at sea, fishing boats, men rowing.
Located in Woodbury, CT
A very well-painted Dutch 19th century marine scene. The small boat is full of men who are rowing hard to get to the larger vessels, possibly to either take goods on or off the large...
Category
Victorian 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$5,160 Sale Price
20% Off
Ernst Philip De Fine Licht, Helsingborg Old Town Hall
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming Lowry-esque late 19th-century oil painting by Swedish artist Ernst Philip De Fine Licht (1855-1929) depicts the old town hall at Helsingborg, Sweden. De Fine Licht was ...
Category
Folk Art 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Construction du quai - Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Stanislas Lepine
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed impressionist figures in landscape oil on panel circa 1875 by French painter Stanislas Victor Edouard Lepine. The piece depicts depicts of a view of workers constructing the q...
Category
Impressionist 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Wool Winder (1877) by Swedish Female Artist Emma Ekwall
Located in Stockholm, SE
In The Wool Winder, Emma Ekwall captures a moment of quiet domestic intimacy between a young woman and a man as they wind wool together—she with focused care, he with gentle attentiv...
Category
Realist 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th century English fishing boat with the tide out on a shore
By James Webb
Located in Woodbury, CT
This James Webb English marine painting, circa 1870, is a masterpiece of atmospheric charm and technical precision that would appeal profoundly to an interior designer or fine art co...
Category
Victorian 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
19th century Antique English Victorian Summer Harvest landscape, with figures.
By John Mundell
Located in Woodbury, CT
19th century English Antique Victorian Summertime Harvest landscape, with figures.
John Mundell was a British painter of landscapes as well as river scenes and coastal views. It is suggested that Mundell was a pseudonym of John James Wilson. Mundell’s work was vigorous, bright, and attractive and compares favorably with the work of many of the better artists of his time.
This is a very fine example of the artist's work. It is a rare composition for the artist as he mostly painted marines.
This piece is framed in its original antique gold leaf frame
Category
Victorian 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Sailboats in a Bay" John Ross Key, American Landscape, Skyscape, Maritime Scene
Located in New York, NY
John Ross Key
Sailboats in a Bay
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
15 x 26 inches
Provenance
Private collection, St. Simon's Island, Georgia
Private Collection, by descent
Private Co...
Category
Academic 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Military french painting 1870 war soldier horse Sketch 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Alphonse de NEUVILLE
Saint-Omer, 1835 - Paris, 1885
Oil on wood panel
14.5 x 24 cm
Signed lower right
Alphonse de Neuville painted french soldier...
Category
French School 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cavalry review of the 2nd Lancers regiment
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Georges HYON
(Paris 1840 – Saint Germain en Laye 1913)
Cavalry review of the 2nd Lancers regiment
Oil on canvas
H. 115 cm; W. 146.5 cm
Signed lower left
A student of Portalis, Georg...
Category
French School 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Dutch Oil Painting of an Ice Skating Scene by Culverhouse
By Johann Mongels Culverhouse
Located in London, GB
Antique Dutch oil painting of an ice skating scene by Culverhouse
Dutch, 1870
Canvas: Height 93cm, width 127cm
Frame: Height 118cm, width 1...
Category
1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Winter - Fontainbleau Forest - Impressionist Oil, Landscape by Victor Vignon
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in a landscape oil on canvas circa 1870 by French impressionist painter Victor Alfred Paul Vignon. The work depicts a woman carrying a basket with a young child beside her walking along a snowy path in a Fontainebleau Forest. This early work by Vignon was painted whilst he was under the tutelage of Camille Corot in the period between 1869 and 1870 . The work shows a mother and child in the forest at Fontainebleau in winter. Many painters in Vignon's circle such as Monet, Renoir, Sisley and Bazille visited this area to paint in the late 1860's and the early 1870's.
Signature:
Signed lower left
Dimensions:
Framed: 23"x25.5"
Unframed: 13.5"x16"
Provenance:
Galerie Commeter - Hamburg c. 1920
French exhibition customs stamps verso
His mother has been incorrectly identified as the writer Claude Vignon...
Category
Impressionist 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Victorian Portrait of Country Gentlemen Squire Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English artists, circa 1870
oil painting on canvas, framed
framed: 36 x 31 inches
canvas : 30 x 25 inches
provenance: private collection, England
condition: overall very good and pr...
Category
Victorian 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Italian Oil on Panel Painting Costume Genre Dog & Beauty Franceso Vinea
By Francesco Vinea
Located in Portland, OR
A very good antique oil on panel costume genre painting by the celebrated Northern Italian artist, Francesco Vinea (1845-1902), the painting dated signed and dated 1873.
Vinea studied at The Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and then worked as a designer of illustrated periodicals, he returned to Florence and studied under professor Enrico Pollestrini. Vinea unapologetically produced incredibly high quality humorous and whimsical scenes that were always elegant and depicted figures in period costume situated in lavishly ornamented interiors. Vinea became quite famous and wealthy in his lifetime and his work was particularly sought after in France, England and The United States. The 19th Century American art collector James Jackson...
Category
Italian School 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Victorian English 19th century Summer River with horses in a landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful English Victorian River Landscape during the Summer with horses, fields , trees etc
Thomas O Hume was an English landscape painter who exhibit...
Category
Victorian 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$3,000 Sale Price
20% Off
La Maison Blanche - Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Stanislas Lepine
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed impressionist landscape oil on panel circa 1872 by French painter Stanislas Victor Edouard Lepine. The piece depicts a view of La Maison Blanche in Bas Meudon, France.
Signature:
Signed lower right
Dimensions:
Framed: 13"x16"
Unframed: 6"x9"
Provenance:
Galerie Bonnemaison, Paris.
Their sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 29 April 1896, lot 39.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris.
Van Harwingen, Paris.
E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam.
H.J. Ten Cate, The Hague.
Arnold Cohen, Paris.
Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd., London.
MacConnal-Mason Gallery, London.
Private collection, USA, by 1999.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York East, 2 November 1999, lot 54.
Literature:
R. & M. Schmit, Stanislas Lépine 1835-1892, Catalogue Raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 1993, p. 224, no. 565, illustrated.
EXHIBITED
Paris, Galerie Rosenberg, Lépine, 1906, no. 19.
Stanislas Victor Édouard Lépine was the pupil of Corot in Paris between 1860 and 1875. His first paintings hardly attracted attention. He would perhaps have remained unknown for a long time if Count Armand Doria, struck by the feeling visible in his landscapes, had not taken him under his protection with Adolphe Félix Cals...
Category
Impressionist 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
In the Wheatfield (Girl Standing in a Wheat Field)
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"In the Wheatfield (Girl Standing in a Wheat Field)" is a painting by Winslow Homer. The painting is signed, lower left, "Homer 1873". The framed piece measures 29 3/4 x 21 5/8 x 2 7/8 in.
During the early 1870s, Winslow Homer frequently painted scenes of country living near a small farm hamlet renowned for generations for its remarkable stands of wheat, situated between the Hudson River and the Catskills in New York state. Today Hurley is far more famous for inspiring one of Homer’s greatest works, Snap the Whip...
Category
Realist 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of young women with a white bow
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Charles HERRMANN-LÉON (born Léon Charles Sigismond HERRMANN)
(Le Havre 1838 - Paris 1908)
Portrait of a Young Woman
Oil on canvas
H. 54 cm; W. 41 cm
Signed and dated upper right - 18...
Category
French School 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fall Courtship
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Valencia, Spain in 1845, 19th century impressionist Vicente García de Paredes studied at the School of Fine Arts in Valencia, in Madr...
Category
Impressionist 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920) La Ferme du Pré, Oil on canvas
By Paul Lecomte
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920)
La Ferme du Pré
Oil on canvas
signed on the lower right
38 x 55 cm
Framed : 49 x 66.5 cm
In good condition: a small repair visible on the reverse (see pictu...
Category
Impressionist 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Beautiful Maiden
Located in St. Albans, GB
Jean Marie Constantin Joseph (Jan) VAN BEERS
Oil on Panel
Panel Size: 32 x 24" (81 x 62cm)
Outside frame Size: 38 x 33" (97 x 83cm)
Van Beers (1852 ...
Category
French School 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1870's British Sporting Art Oil Painting Hare Coursing with Dogs, signed dated
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Hare Coursing
by J.C Mitchell (British sporting artist, 19th century)
dated 1879
signed oil on board, framed
framed: 11.5 x 14 inches
board: 9.25 x 12 inches
provenance: private coll...
Category
Victorian 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Garden with Blooming Chestnut Trees, France
Located in Stockholm, SE
Viggo Loos lists the painting under works from 1875 as a "Skåne farmstead," but this is likely incorrect. Skånberg was in France at that time. In this composition, he incorporates a ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Marie-Edouard Adam (Circle), The Barque ‘Limbe’ In Choppy Waters
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This late 19th-century French oil painting depicts the barque Limbe in choppy waters, with the silhouettes of two further ships beyond. It was probably produced at Le Havre, France, ...
Category
French School 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Feathered Tribe" Mary Russell Smith, 1871 Graceful Academic Chicks Painting
Located in New York, NY
Mary Russell Smith
Feathered Tribe, 1871
Signed and dated lower left
Oil on canvas
9 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches
The daughter of theater scenery and landscape painter Russell Smith (1812–1...
Category
Academic 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flower Gathering
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed and dated '1873' lower left
Category
Academic 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th century French scene of Lovers walking in a Garden, in 17th century costume
Located in Woodbury, CT
19th century French scene of Lovers walking in a Garden, in 17th century costume
original frame
Wonderful 19th century classical Genre scene, painted with great skill and delicasicy .
The artist has captured the meetiung of the two lovers...
Category
Victorian 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Victorian English 19th century farm yard scene with Shire Horses and a couple
Located in Woodbury, CT
William Edward Millner was born in 1849 in Lincolnshire, and was a Victorian painter of landscapes and rustic genre.
He worked his entire life ...
Category
Victorian 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A Young Woman With Her Dog by Victor Ravet
Located in Stockholm, SE
In this exquisite painting by Victor Ravet, we are transported to an elegant interior setting reminiscent of the grandeur of high-class homes. The focal point is a woman adorned in a shimmering pink gown, radiating grace and sophistication. Bathed in gentle light, her dress catches the glimmer, accentuating her beauty.
She holds a treat for a dog in her hand, enticing the furry companion who stands on its hind legs in eager anticipation. The canine's eyes fixated on the delicious morsel, capturing a moment of playful interaction between the woman and her loyal companion.
The scene takes on a narrative quality as the young woman's other hand delicately lifts a curtain, hinting at another room beyond. This subtle gesture adds depth to the composition, suggesting a world of hidden secrets and intriguing possibilities within the opulent surroundings.
Victor Ravet took inspiration from the Dutch Golden Age painters of the 17th century, such as Vermeer, Jacob Ochtervelt, and Gerrit Dou. This homage to their style and subject matter pays tribute to the timeless allure of domestic scenes, capturing a slice of life in a bygone era.
With meticulous attention to detail, Ravet masterfully recreates the textures and fabrics, immersing the viewer in the sumptuousness of the period. The soft play...
Category
Realist 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
La Seine à Paris by Armand Guillaumin - Cityscape of Paris
Located in London, GB
La Seine à Paris by Armand Guillaumin (1841-1927)
Oil on canvas
45.3 x 61 cm (17 ⁷/₈ x 24 inches)
Signed lower right, A Guillaumin
Executed circa 1874
Literature: G. Serret & D. Fab...
Category
Impressionist 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Victorian English 19th century Autumn/Fall River landscape, with trees and hills
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful English Victorian River Landscape.
Thomas O Hume was an English landscape painter who exhibited from 1864-1892.
He showed his paintings at t...
Category
Victorian 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Large Antique American Southern Folk Art BLUE EYED SIBLINGS Portrait Painting
By Thomas Sully
Located in New York, NY
Probably one of the most amazing detailed American 19th century folk art paintings I have ever owned!!! I have attached a picture of my 3 year old next to it, so you can see how beau...
Category
Folk Art 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Miniature Oil Painting on Panel French Battle Cavalry Horse Scene 1875
Located in Portland, OR
A good antique miniature French School oil on panel painting, a post battle cavalry scene, James Alexander Walker (1831-1898), British, circa 1875.
The painting depicts two French cavalry officers riding through a rural landscape, each on horseback, one is evidently wounded and is being supported by the other. The painting is signed to the verso of the walnut panel it is painted on and titled "Hors de Combat", meaning out of combat due to injury. Walker's auction record for a painting was at Christies London, for more than $191,000 in 2007. The painting is housed in the original ebonized frame with gilded Fleur de Lis decoration, condition is good, unrestored antique condition and ready to hang.
James Alexander-Walker (1831 – 1898), was a British painter of French descent for his battle scenes. He was born in Calcutta, but from 1871 he lived in Paris where he made historical scenes of soldiers. He died in Paris...
Category
French School 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"A Reverie During The Ball", 19th Century Oil on Canvas by Rogelio Egusquiza
Located in Madrid, ES
ROGELIO DE EGUSQUIZA
Spanish, 1845 - 1915
A REVERIE DURING THE BALL
signed and dated "Rogelio Egusquiza, 1879" (lower right)
oil on canvas
21-3/4 X 3...
Category
Symbolist 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th century English marine seascape, with fishing boats in the North Sea
Located in Woodbury, CT
William Thornley was a painter of coastal scenes whose work is very similar to Hubert and Charles Thornley, who may have been members of the same family. He painted scenes of genre, architecture, and landscapes as well. A number of the landscapes were of Belgium, Holland, Italy, and Norway. However, it is for his seascapes that he is best remembered.
Thornley’s works are beautifully detailed and show a masterful understanding of the moods of both weather and sea. They are often small in size and put together with fine detail and great artistic merit. Thornley’s fishing scenes are spirited and similar in style to those of “Jock” Wilson, and are often painted in pairs. Thornley’s works have always been popular when they appear on the art market.
He was believed to have first exhibited marines at the Royal Academy in 1859 from an address in Paddington, London and also at the British Institution from 1861 until it closed in 1867. He continued to exhibit at the Royal Academy until 1898.
Thornley also exhibited at the Paris Salon and the Salon of French Artists, receiving an honorable mention in 1881 and a third-place medal in 1888.
William Thornley also went by the names Georges William and William...
Category
Victorian 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large river edge with birds in France
By Edmond Yon
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Edmond YON
(Montmartre 1841 – Paris 1897)
Riverbank with birds
Oil on canvas
H. 79.5 cm; L. 130 cm
Signed lower right and dated 1876
Original frame
Exhibition: 1876, Salon des Artis...
Category
French School 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paul Constant Soyer, Cottage Interior With Child Peeling Vegetables
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This late 19th-century oil painting by French artist Paul Constant Soyer (1823-1903) depicts a rustic cottage interior with an elderly woman spinning wool while a child peels vegetab...
Category
French School 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Antique SUNSET VIEW OF SAN LAZZARO, VENICE
Located in New York, NY
Up for sale is a wonderful Italian Venetian Sunset painting by Bernhard Stange (1807-1880).
Painting for sale depicts SUNSET VIEW OF SAN LAZZARO, VENICE
It is absolutely colorful a...
Category
Academic 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th C New Jersey Surfmen Rescuing Foundering Ship - GW Nicholson
Located in Exton, PA
Fine late 19th C oil painting on cradled wood panel by George Washington Nicholson. The painting is in very good cleaned condition and shows Surfmen rescuing a ship in distress. This...
Category
Hudson River School 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Martha's Vineyard Coastline" Wesley Webber, Stormy Waters, Massachusetts Beach
By Wesley Webber
Located in New York, NY
Wesley Webber
Martha's Vineyard Coastline
Signed lower right, inscribed on stretcher
Oil on canvas
16 x 26 inches
Marine, landscape, and historical artist, Wesley Elbridge Webber w...
Category
Naturalistic 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th century British portrait of Sir Charles Dickens seated in an interior
By Daniel Maclise
Located in Woodbury, CT
Well painted 19th-century portrait of Sir Charles Dickens. The original painting is in the National Gallery in London and I'm sure this piece would have been painted by a fan of the author who was also a very good artist as this piece is a very good copy of the original painting.
There was a great fashion to paint copies of famous paintings during the 19th century and most of the world's most famous paintings have been copied many times.
Often the artist who does the copy is very talented but usually anonymous
With this piece, it's the only way to own an antique copy...
Category
Victorian 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$5,560 Sale Price
20% Off
"A Shady Runlet" Stream in Fall New Jersey Watercolor 1878
Located in Soquel, CA
"A Shady Runlet" Stream in Fall New Jersey Watercolor 1878
A rare and exceptional watercolor of two ladies viewing a New Jersey stream in fall by William C. Bauer (American, 1856- 1...
Category
American Impressionist 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$2,120 Sale Price
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Le rêve brisé
Located in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, FR
In this enchanting painting by Adolf Gudfast (Gotthard) Werner, entitled "The Broken Dream", a young shepherd rests melancholically beside his faithful dog, facing a broken vase from...
Category
Symbolist 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sweet Roses
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed and titled lower left
Category
Academic 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Maine Cliffs, Rough Sea" Harrison Bird Brown, American, Rough Sea, Rocky Coast
Located in New York, NY
Harrison Bird Brown
Maine Cliffs, Rough Sea
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
20 x 36
Provenance
Estate of John Carter, Gloucester, MA
Harrison Bird Brown was born in 1831 in Portl...
Category
Naturalistic 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Profile portrait of a young girl
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Frans SCHWARTZ
(Copenhagen, 1850 – Valby, 1917)
Profile of a Young Girl
Mixed media (pastel and oil?) on paper mounted on canvas
H. 33 cm; W. 30 cm
Monogrammed upper left
Frans Schw...
Category
French School 1870s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Pastel
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