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Item Ships From: USA
Period: 19th Century
Chinese Reverse Glass Portrait of a Young Woman, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
With exquisite detail and sparkling color, this portrait of a young woman is a remarkable example of reverse glass painting. Lending the finished work a subtle three-dimensional effe...
Category
Qing 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Glass, Paint
Standing Guard Orientalist Watercolor by Antonio Gargiullo
Located in New York, NY
Orientalist watercolor of a guard standing watch. He stands at the ready, attentively listening while resting his hand on his sash which holds a sheathe...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Antique English 19th century marine scene
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding English late 18th / early 19th century marine scene by one of Britain's best known and sought after painters.
William (or Wiliam) Anderson (1757 – 27 May 1837) was a Scottish artist specializing in maritime and patriotic themes. He was well-regarded for his detailed and accurate portraits of ships under sail, exhibiting his works annually in London between 1787 and 1811 and then occasionally until 1834. Anderson influenced other artists, notably John Ward and others of the Hull school.
Anderson's early life is obscure, but he is known to have trained as a shipwright before moving to London to become a maritime painter when he was about 30. His training served him well as a painter, providing "a practical nautical knowledge" of his subjects. He earned a reputation for "accuracy and refinement of detail" and was admired for his bright, clear colours. He worked in both oils and watercolours.
He based his style on that of well-known Dutch maritime...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Portrait of a Venetian Beauty by Felice Castegnaro '1872-1958' Italian
Located in Rochester, NY
Painting of a beautiful Venetian woman by Felice Castegnaro. Watercolor. Well framed in carved gilt and ebonized frame. Late 19th Century. Presented by ...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint
Dreaming Anew, Departing New York Harbor
By Henry Bacon
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
Pensive in thought sitting at a wood-slat stern bench of a departing vessel in New York Harbor, the prominent grandeur of the Statue of Liberty recently passed, a woman and her loyal...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Portrait of a Boy Peeling Fruit
By Eugene von Blaas
Located in Milford, NH
A wonderful three quarter portrait of a boy in a straw hat peeling a piece of fruit, probably an orange, by Italian artist Eugene Von Blaas (1843-1942). Von Blaas was born to Austria...
Category
Impressionist 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Neoclassical Two Women With A Dragonfly
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Two Seated Women One Holding A Dragonfly
Unsigned, oil on wood panel 14"x10"5 antique frame 20x16.5
European School, possibly Italian early 19th Century painting of two seated women ...
Category
Italian School 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Chinese Floral Longevity Bed Canopy Painting, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Thoughts of a long, happy life greeted the young couple who gazed up from their bed on this canopy panel. Adorned with chrysanthemums and peaches, both symbols of longevity, the lyri...
Category
Qing 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Wood Panel, Lacquer
Late 19th Century Scottish Figural Landscape, "The Ingathering, Rowan Tree Hill"
Located in Soquel, CA
A sweeping skyline sets a gentle tone for this late 19th century Scottish pastoral scene titled on verso "The Ingathering, Rowan-Tree Hill, Kilmalcol...
Category
Impressionist 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portraits of a Lady & Gentleman
Located in Milford, NH
A fine pair of oil portraits of a lady & gentleman, probably husband & wife, attributed to Zedekiah Belknap (1781-1858). Belknap was born in Auburn, MA and graduated from Dartmouth College...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Minimalist Watercolor Painting of Orientalist Dancer
Located in New York, NY
Gypsie Dancer by Federico Fernandez y Giminez (1846-1873)
Watercolor on paper, signed 'F. Fernandez Giminez' lower right.
Diffused and hazy brushwork defines this work as the woman sits in a gestured garden depicted in stark contrast to her detailed clothing and jewelry. Instead of crafting an intricately detailed background similar to the famous Jean-Léon Gérôme, Giminez pins our focus on the figure, providing soft atmospheric gestures of background elements, hi lighting the details of oriental clothing...
Category
Minimalist 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Musical Performance oil on panel by Antonio Ermolao Paoletti
Located in New York, NY
The Musical Performance by Antonio Ermolao Paoletti
An italian genre painting showcasing two boys playing a trumpet and a guitar for their sist...
Category
Academic 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil, Board
A Fine Pair of Allegorical Paintings of Poetry and Music by Charles Chaplin
Located in New York, NY
A Fine Pair of Allegorical Paintings of Poetry and Music by Charles Chaplin
Title: Allegory of Poetry and Music
Artist: Charles Chaplin (French, 1825-1891)
Date: 19th Century
Medium...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Cornish Fisherwoman with Net, Victorian Painting by D.W. Haddon
Located in Long Island City, NY
A late Victorian period painting by British artist, David W. Haddon, active (1884-1914). The canvas measures 20 x 14 inches and is signed low...
Category
Victorian 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Jules Didier (1831-1892) "The Falconer" Orientalist Hunting Painting
Located in New York, NY
Jules Didier (1831-1892) "The Falconer"
Oil on canvas
19th Century
Orientalist painting of an Arab riding his brown Arabian horse hunting for Falcon,...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Late 19th Century Tonalist Landscape -- Afternoon by the Pond
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous tonalist oil painting woman walking in field by pond with home in background by Willis Seaver Adams (American, 1844-1921), circa 1880. Trees and an amazing sky in the background add depth and interest to this beautiful piece. Signed "W. S. Adams" lower right corner. Condition: Previous restoration includes relining of canvas. Frame is vintage gilt molded and wood frame and shows previous repair of molding losses. Image size: 20"H x 24"W.
Willis Seaver Adams was known for his landscapes of the Connecticut River Valley. A relative recluse for much of his artistic life, his loneliness can be seen in much of his works. Oil miniatures were the focus for almost all of his later works. He is credited with over 425 oils, watercolors, and drawings.
Willis Seaver was born in 1844 on a farm in Suffield, near the Connecticut River. He intermittently attended the Suffield Academy, and always wanted to be a painter. A wealthy doctor became his patron, and financed his studies in 1868 at the Royal Academy in Antwerp. When the doctor passed away, Adams returned home and struggled to make a living painting. After working for a photographer for three years, he opened his own studio.
Adams helped organize Clevelands first watercolor exhibit in 1876. Soon thereafter, he completed a portrait of Rutherford B. Hayes, then governor of Ohio, prior to his becoming President of the United States. This portrait enhanced Adams notoriety.
In 1878, Adams traveled to Italy where he opened a studio in Venice, and became friendly with neighbor James Whistler. Prior to returning to Springfield, Adams lived in Florence, Italy for three years. He returned to became an instructor for the Springfield Art Association, and began to exhibit his works at the galleries of James D. Gill. His first one-man exhibit was held there in 1894. Other successful exhibitions took place in Chicago, New York, and Boston. Although his works garnered respectable prices and reflected his success, Adams felt he was due more recognition.
In 1906, he moved to Greenfield, Massachusetts and converted a barn into a studio. There, he fell into relative obscurity, accompanied mainly by his dog, Collie. In 1921, Adams passed away.
Examples of Willis Adams works can be seen at the Kent Memorial Library, the Wadsworth Atheneum, and the Suffield Academy. Several Suffield residents are thought to own Adams paintings.
Category
Tonalist 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
The Courtship by Orientalist School
Located in New York, NY
A fine oil painting of a man courting a woman.
Artist: Orientalist School (19th/20th century)
Date: 19th century
Origin: French
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 35.5 in. x 20 in.
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
William Bodfish Oil Painting Titled "The Sister's Visit", Dated 1888
Located in New York, NY
Two figures in 19th century dress sit at a table in a cafe.
Provenance: Private Collection, New Jersey
Originally based in New York City, William Bodfish was a talented artist who gained recognition for his illustrations and cartoons in the late nineteenth century. A painter of genre scenes, he also created detailed illustrations of hunting, whaling and fishing adventures for such magazines as Harper's Weekly. In the years following the Civil War, he traveled to the American West, joining the legion of journalists and illustrators who recorded the development of the new frontier. He was considered by historians to be one of the most “able cartoonists” to tackle the West. During his lifetime, Bodfish exhibited work at the National Academy of Design and the Art Institute of Chicago. Likely created after the artist’s departure from New York, The Sister’s Visit records a quiet moment between two siblings. Seated before a lovely spread of luncheon items, including a bowl of oranges...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cubist Figures
Located in Los Angeles, CA
IRVING GEORGE LEHMAN
"CUBIST FIURES'
OIL ON PANEL, SIGNED
RUSSIAN-AMERICAN, C.1960
23.5 X 25.5 INCHES
FRAMED 29.5 X 32.5 INCHES
Irving George Lehman
1900-1983
Born in Kiev, R...
Category
Cubist 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Copy of "The Little Fruit-Seller", After Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1880-1890
By (After) Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Located in Soquel, CA
An impressive 19th-century copy of "The Little Fruit-Seller", after Bartolome Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1617 - 1682), by an unknown artist (1...
Category
Baroque 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Rehearsal, Victorian Era painting by Francis Sydney Muschamp
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original oil on canvas painting measuring 17 x 8 inches by F.S. Muschamp, signed lower right. In the nineteenth century, the Neo-Classical movement bloomed, bringing forth a new style and interpretation of the past. F. Sydney Muschamp...
Category
Victorian 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mother and Child
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful original painting by French artist, Alexandre de Valentini (1787-1887). Pencil and gouache on paper, 14 x 18.5 inches; 19 x 23.5 inches matted. Signed and dated with Paris...
Category
Academic 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Gouache
“Sunset on the River”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautifully painted sunset on the river with a single figure in a punt and cattle crossing by the American artist, George Riecke. Most likely a New Orlea...
Category
Academic 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Chinese Bed Canopy of Phoenix and Fruits, Paint on Wood Panel, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
The owners of this work of art were likely the only two people in the world lucky enough to have access to its beauty. The experience of art itself can be an intimate one, and this bed canopy, hand-painted 100 years ago by an artist in Canton, was more intimate than most. It brings to life symbols of prosperity and good fortune for a married couple...
Category
Qing 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Wood Panel
"The Letter, " Frederick Boston, Woman Reading, American Impressionism Figurative
By Frederick James Boston
Located in New York, NY
Frederick James Boston (1855 - 1932)
The Letter
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches
Signed lower left
The first instructor of art at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Frederick ...
Category
American Impressionist 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tonalist Painting Sunset Figures Wheat Barbizon Framed 19th Century Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
An antique oil painting in its original ornate gold leaf frame.
This tonalist painting depicts figures against a dramatic sunset.
The work is signed illegibly lower left. It ap...
Category
Tonalist 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Knucks Down
By Karl Witkowski
Located in New York, NY
Signed upper left: Witkowski
Category
American Modern 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Dyptich Rural scenes from the Chinese Countryside - Oil Painting - a Pair
Located in Pasadena, CA
This peaceful pair of 19th Century paintings show two rural scenes from the Chinese countryside. One is a shepherd sitting by the river,...
Category
Expressionist 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
(American School, C. 1825) An Exceptional Quality Portrait of "Two Sisters"
Located in New York, NY
(American School, C. 1825) An Exceptional Quality Portrait of "Two Sisters", early 19th Century.
Oil on canvas in gilt-wood frame.
This powerful portrait painting depicts two sist...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cherubs
By George Henry Hall
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
George Henry Hall (1825-1913). Cupids, 1875. Oil on canvas, 6 x 9.25 inches; 10 x 13.25 inches framed. Original frame with label verso. Excellent condition with no damage or restoration. Signed and dated lower right.
Price on request
Biography:
Birth place: Manchester, NH
Addresses: Primarily in NYC from 1852
Profession: Still-life, genre, portrait painter
Studied: between 1849-52 in Paris and Rome; and Düsseldorf Royal Acad. with Eastman Johnson
Exhibited: PAFA, 1853-68; Royal Acad., British Inst., Suffolk Street Gal., all in London, 1858-74; Brooklyn AA, 1861-81; NAD, 1862-1900; AIC, 1888; Boston AC, 1881, 1889
Member: ANA, 1853; NA, 1868; Century Assn.
Work: MMA; BM; BMFA
Comments: Best known for his still-lifes, he specialized in detailed and vividly colored fruit and flower...
Category
Realist 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Palatial and Opulent Belle Epoque Giltwood & Oil on Canvas Three-Panel Screen
Located in New York, NY
A Palatial and Opulent Belle epoque giltwood & oil on canvas three-panel screen, circa 1890.
"Allegory of Youth"
Comprising of three exquisite hand-painted triptych oil on canvas panels of cherubs and putti amongst a peacock, all by Ferdinand Wagner II (German, 1847-1927).
Each panel depicting different playful and joyous scenes of putti and cherubs.
All three-in-one panels within individually carved giltwood and upholstered frames. One panel signed at the lower left: Ferd.Wagner.
A truly magnificent and one of a kind piece, perfect for any room in the home.
Overall: 101" high 85" wide x 5" deep
Very good condition. Ready to place.
Ferdinand Wagner II (German, 1847-1927) was the son of Passau Ferdinand Wagner Senior, a teacher at a vocational art school who began training him professionally at a young age. After traveling to Italy in 1867-1868, he continued with his art studies at The Munich Academy of Arts led by Peter Von Cornelius and Julius Schnorr Von Carolsfeld. Wagner II was influenced by the Munich School of master painters and by his art teacher, Karl von Piloty, who had been teaching at the Munich Art Academy since 1856. Piloty’s approach to historical paintings was influenced by the French art academic Paul Delaroche and by the fine artworks by Rubens and the Venetians.
After his return to Germany he was commissioned to decorate the former the Tenormayer Wine Tavern in Munich, subsequently he received numerous other commissions as a decorator. Ferdinand Wagner II wall paintings and ceiling frescos...
Category
Romantic 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Chinese Bed Canopy Painting of Peonies and Pheasants, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
The experience of art itself can be an intimate one, and this bed canopy, hand-painted over 100 years ago by an artist in Canton, was more intimate than most. Delicately painted pheasants...
Category
Qing 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Wood Panel
'A Fashionable Young Woman in a Chiffon Ball-Gown', Scandinavian Oil Portrait
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A delicately-observed, three-quarter length oil portrait of a young woman in society, fashionably dressed in a pinch-waisted, embroidered chiffon ball-gown and wearing a gold pendant and teardrop earrings with tea roses in her hair; the subject shown gazing towards the viewer with candor and good humor. Displayed in a period, black-walnut frame with period gilt liner. Danish School...
Category
Naturalistic 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Kindling Gatherers, 1890 (knighted Royal Academy member, Antique Landscape)
By Alfred East
Located in New Orleans, LA
Sir Alfred East was both a full member of the Royal Academy and president of the Royal Society of British Artists, so his pedigree is impeccable. He be...
Category
Impressionist 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lilly Martin Spencer (American, 1822-1902) A Portrait of a Mother and Child
Located in New York, NY
Lilly Martin Spencer (American, 1822-1902) A Portrait of a Mother and Child
19th Century.
Oil on canvas, signed
Lilly Martin Spencer was one of the most popular and American female genre painters in the mid-nineteenth century. She primarily painted domestic scenes, paintings of women and children...
Category
Romantic 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Painting "Ammirando i Piccioni" by Eugenio Zampighi
Located in New York, NY
Zampighi's "Ammirando i Piccioni" Admiring the Little Ones
Signed lower left
Artist: Eugenio Zampighi (Italian, 1859-1944)
Medium: oil on linen
Dimensions: 29 1/2 in. x 41 1/2 in framed
"National Association of Artists, Piazza Pitti, Florence, Italy" labels on stretcher and reverse of frame,
Born in Modena, Italy, Eugenio Zampighi entered the local Academy of Design at 13. He eventually became one of the most decorated students, and in 1869, he was awarded a scholarship and spent the next three years in Rome. By 1884, having settled in Florence, he had begun to paint the genre works that eventually placed him with the leading artist’s of Italy.
Zampighi proceeded to devote his career to painting simple Italian domestic life, centring on the figures he saw around him and usually depicted in jovial company, similar to the Spanish court...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
"At the Door, " Late 19th Century European Realist Oil Domestic Interior Scene
Located in Wiscasset, ME
"At the Door" by C. Colombe is a charming late 19th century European realistic oil of a domestic interior scene capturing the Victorian sense of humor.
Signed lower right.
The pain...
Category
Realist 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Tibetan Thangka of Sakyamuni, c. 1880
Located in Chicago, IL
Historically in Buddhist Tibet, patrons and monks commissioned thangka art, or sacred painting, to focus their meditations and prayers. This 19th-century Tibetan Thangka, painted in rich red, green, and blue pigments, still maintains incredible vibrancy. The central figure is the Sakyamuni Buddha, seated in the diamond position with alms bowl...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Silk, Pigment
Prior- Hamblin School Portraits of John & Sally Eaton, Parents of A.H. Harris
Located in Milford, NH
A fine pair of 19th century Prior-Hamblin School oil on paperboard portraits, identified as John & Sally Eaton, parents of AH Harris, unsigned, and housed in wooden frames with a mar...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
German Wild Turkey Chicken Oil Painting Animal Farm Antique Von Wille 1868
Located in Buffalo, NY
An antique German animal painting by Clara Von Wille which features Wild Turkeys and chickens in a whimsical setting.
Original period frame.
Category
Realist 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Chinese Ancestor Portrait
Located in Chicago, IL
This intricately detailed composition is a late-Qing dynasty ancestor portrait depicting several generations of a family's male ancestry. Or...
Category
Qing 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Silk, Paint, Pigment
"A Man in His Garden, " Emil Carlsen, Backyard and Barn Impressionist Landscape
By Emil Carlsen
Located in New York, NY
Soren Emil Carlsen (1848 - 1932)
A Man in His Garden, 1893
Oil on canvas
28 3/4 x 35 1/2 inches
Signed and dated lower right
Provenance:
The artist [1848-1932]
Macbeth Gallery, New ...
Category
American Impressionist 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century European Mother With Twins
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
19th Century European School Mother with twins.
Well executed 19Th Century oil on canvas, European School possibly Austrian, unsigned in the style of Old Masters.
canvas 29"x19" ...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
“Orientalist Markeplace”
Located in Southampton, NY
Circa 1865 marketplace painting by the American artist, George Washington Nicholson. Signed lower left. Oil paint on wooden panel. Condit...
Category
Academic 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Country House - Farm Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
The Country House - Farm Landscape
Highly detailed scene with a country house, workers, and a hare with rider by an unknown artist (19th Century). Five people - one on a horse - are...
Category
Realist 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Watercolor
"A Quiet Afternoon, " Enoch Wood Perry, Genre Scene Mother and Child at Fireplace
By Enoch Wood Perry Jr.
Located in New York, NY
Enoch Wood Perry, Jr. (1831 - 1915)
A Quiet Afternoon, 1876
Oil on canvas
15 1/4 x 21 inches
Signed and dated lower right
Born in 1831 in Boston, Enoch Wood Perry, Jr, is internatio...
Category
Hudson River School 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Clipper Mary Lee in High Seas, mid-19th century American school ship seascape
Located in Beachwood, OH
American School, Mid-19th Century
The Clipper Mary Lee in High Seas
Oil on canvas
Unsigned
25 x 35 inches
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Young Beauty Crossing Brook with Hunter, " Emile Pierre Metzmacher French Salon
Located in New York, NY
Émile-Pierre Metzmacher (French, 1815 - 1890)
A Young Beauty Crossing a Brook, A Hunter Beyond
Oil on panel
24 x 19 1/2 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Christie's New York, Oct...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Tibetan Thangka of Vaishravana
Located in Chicago, IL
Thangkas are devotional paintings displayed by Buddhists in monasteries, temples, and even their homes. This 19th-century Tibetan Thangka is rich with ...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Pigment, Fabric
Russian Icon "Saint Mother of God of Pokrov"
Located in Houston, TX
Russian Icon, oil on wood, with beautiful cloisonné enamel around. Icon is surrounded with floral motifs decorative insert that is placed into the thick carved wooden frame.
Icon is signed verso with dedication to the church that it was made for.
c. 1860s
23.5”h x 20.5”w, overall size is 47.5” x 34”
Wring on the back of the icon says:
"Painted family icon was donated to the church of the name of Pokrova of Virgin Mary with additions of flora and laurel and with 3 saints: Vasiliy the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom by people born at the village of Gubino and later by the merchant Vasiliy Miheev from Saint Petersburg with his wife Tatiana Yakovleva-Miheeva. Done in the memory of completion of this church with stone fence...
Category
Other Art Style 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Porcelain Mythological Plaque Of Venus And Cupid J. Pascault
Located in New York, NY
French Porcelain Mythological Plaque of Venus and Cupid
J. Pascault after 19th Century Romantic School, Early 20th Century
The full-length portrait in a forest brook, depicting a win...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Glaze, Porcelain
19th Century European Gypsy Caravan Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful small-scale mid 19th Century European landscape with gypsy figures and caravan by Pal Paul Bohm (Hungarian, 1839-1906), circa 1870. Signed lower right with "Munchen" locati...
Category
Impressionist 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
18th or 19th Century Barbizon School
Located in San Francisco, CA
Early 19th or late 18th century Barbizon school Genre painting. Definitely a mystery piece here. Obviously academically painted but I cannot find a signature but painting needs a goo...
Category
Barbizon School 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Feeding the Birds" By Antonio Ermolao Paoletti
Located in New York, NY
Antonio Ermolao Paoletti
Italian (1834 - 1912)
Feeding the Birds
A genre painting of Venetians feeding pigeons in Piazza San Marco beside the Palazzo Ducale.
Signed and inscribed Antonio Paoletti fi Giovni/ Venezia (lower left)
Medium: oil on canvas
Origin: Italian, Venetian
Provenance: Richard Green...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Portrait of an Italian Fencer, " John Frederick Kensett, Hudson River School
Located in New York, NY
John Frederick Kensett (1816 - 1872)
Portrait of an Italian Fencer, circa 1845-47
Watercolor on wove paper
13 1/8 x 8 1/8 inches
Signed with initials and inscribed lower right "J.F.K. Rome"
From October 1845 through the spring of 1847, Kensett lived in Rome. He attended classes where he sketched from live models, and he sketched in the countryside outside Rome and around Florence, Perugia, and Venice, places he visited with his artist friends. He fulfilled commissions for paintings from Americans in Italy, and by 1847 his career was well established.
Son of an English immigrant engraver, John Kensett lacked enthusiasm for that medium and became one of the most accomplished painters of the second generation of Hudson River School painters. His reputation is for Luminism, careful depiction of light, weather, and atmosphere as they affect color and texture of natural forms. He was particularly influenced by the painting of Asher Durand in that he focused on realism and detail rather than the highly dramatic views associated with Thomas Cole. Going to the western United States in the mid 1850s and the 1860s, he was the first of the Hudson River School painters to explore and paint the West.
Kensett was born and raised in Cheshire, Connecticut, and learned his engraving from his father, Thomas Kensett with whom he worked in New Haven, Connecticut until 1829. He continued working until 1840 as an engraver of labels, banknotes and maps and was employed part of that time by the American Bank Note Company in New York City. There he met Thomas Rossiter, John Casilear, and other artists who urged him to pursue painting. In 1840, he and Rossiter, Asher Durand, and Casilear went to Europe where Kensett stayed for seven years and supported himself by doing engraving but became accomplished in landscape painting.
Having sent canvases of Italian landscapes back to New York, he had a reputation for skillful painting that preceded him. When he returned to New York City in 1847, he was an "instant success" and very sought after by collectors. Two of his Italian landscapes had already been purchased by the American Art Union. By 1849, he was a full member of the National Academy of Design and was generally popular among his peers. His studio was a gathering place with travelers stopping by to see his canvases and to identify "precise locations in the Catskills or Newport or New England in the oil sketches and drawings that covered his walls." (Zellman 170). For the women, he was a popular bachelor, "romantic looking with high forehead and sensitive expression." (Samuels 262)
He was also sought after by many organizations. Among his activities were serving on the committee to oversee the decoration of the United States Capitol in Washington DC, and becoming one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
An inveterate traveler, Kensett spent summers on painting excursions away from New York City. One of these trips was a special painting excursion with fifteen other artists sponsored by the B & O Railroad from Baltimore, Maryland to Wheeling, West Virginia. Unlike many of the Hudson River painters...
Category
Hudson River School 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Set of Four Chinese Immortals Screen Paintings, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Since the 12th century people in China have used folding screens and doors to partition and decorate their homes—the vivid scenes backing the screens added life and color to a room. ...
Category
Qing 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Ink, Gouache
Busy Venetian Harbor Scene Italian Seascape Oil Painting
Located in Rochester, NY
Venetian harbor scene with St Marks in the background oil on oak panel. Exceptional quality. Signed illegibly lower left. From an old Philadelphia collection.
Category
Realist 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
A Rural Cottage by a Stream, 19thC signed English artist, original oil on canvas
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
This original and unique detailed landscape scene of a rural cottage by a stream is by the artist O. J. Clark, English School. Signed lower right, with the cottage scene dated ’85 an...
Category
English School 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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