19th Century Figurative Paintings

French School of the 19th Century Variation on the Final Act of La Juive, (18)86 Oil on canvas 32.5 x 46 cm Signed and dated lower right. Dedicated "à l’ami Carnot" Provenance Pri...

Jan Hillebrand Wijsmuller (1855 Amsterdam - 1925 ibid.), Late Summer River Landscape, oil on canvas, relined, 34 x 56 cm (inside measurement), 43 x 64 cm (frame), signed J[an] H[illebrand] Wijsmuller at lower right. - in good condition, the frame with isolated bumped spots - Realistic Impression - About the artwork The panoramic landscape format shows a river landscape, with the course of the river, which curves to the right, leading the eye into the depths of the picture and tempting it to continue the landscape in the imagination beyond the visible area. At the same time, however, the fact that the landscape is not visible through the bend in the river focuses our gaze on the entirety of the landscape depicted, without prompting us to focus on distant details. Accordingly, the brushstroke is not designed to render details with realistic precision. In the front left area of the river there is even a completely free brushwork, trained by Impressionism, which nevertheless remains committed to representational and convincingly suggests the movement of the water. Regardless of the distance of the observer, the entire picture is painted with the same broad brushstroke, so that the landscape is given as an impression. And yet this impression is not ephemeral, as in the case of French Impressionism, to put it exaggeratedly, but reveals to us the essence of the landscape in all its richness. This is why the Dutch variant of Impressionism is always also a realism, although the pictures appear less progressive, but still contain a dimension of landscape painting that is lost with progress. In the impression, the reality of the landscape is revealed, and this happens as we experience the landscape in the visual impression. Wijsmuller does not depict houses or people in order to allow the experience of the landscape to fully unfold. The experience is determined first and foremost by the river, which does not flow into the picture from our point of view, but towards us. Where the river begins to bend, the water is churned by a rapids. Toward us, the riverbed widens and the water comes to rest, covering the entire width of the foreground like a mirror. The stillness of the water corresponds to the evening mood of the late summer landscape, in which the warm tones of the evening light blend with the yellow and brown tones of the plants. A gentle, almost idyllic reality, carried by the brushstroke, yet animated by a liveliness that is also made visible by the brushstroke. The broad, dynamically placed brushstrokes evoke the movement of the treetops and animate even the immobile reeds, while the trunks on the right bank, executed in virtuoso white strokes that seem like markings, make the sunlight shine. On the other bank, a carpet of light also spreads out, its energetic effect again expressed in the brushstroke. The dynamic of the landscape is further enhanced by the complementary color contrasts between the greens, yellows, and browns on the one hand and the blue of the all-encompassing sky on the other. A contrast that is intensified by the reflection in the water. The evening coming to rest of the landscape is thus at the same time an all-encompassing contrasting and yet in itself harmonious movement. This reality becomes accessible to us as an experience in the impression of the landscape. About the artist Jan Hillebrand Wijsmuller entered the Royal Academy of Arts in Amsterdam in 1876 and studied under the innovative Professor August Allebé, who was famous for the Amsterdam Impressionism, also known as the Allebé School. In 1877, Wijsmuller transferred to the Hague Academy of Art, and thus to the Hague School, and then completed his studies at the Brussels Academy of Art. Returning to the Netherlands, Wijsmuller opened his own studio in Amsterdam. In 1883 he won the prestigious Young Artist Award, donated by Willink van Collen, which made Wijsmuller a well-known and sought-after artist. Wijsmuller was a member of the Societät Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam and the Pulchri Studio in The Hague. Wijsmuller belongs to the second generation of the Hague School. While Vincent van Gogh described the protagonists of the first generation to his brother Theo as "the great gray people," the second generation, and Wijsmuller in particular, used a much more colorful palette. His oeuvre makes him a major player in Dutch Impressionism...

Antique Victorian, Impressionist 19th century English oil, Fishings boat at Sea. Adolphus Knell was a superb painter of marine subjects during the middle of the 19th century. His w...

David Bates British, (1840-1921) Early Morning on the Glaslyn Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1895, further inscribed verso Image size: 23.25 inches x 35.25 inches Size including fra...

Jean-Pierre Cassigneul is arguably France’s most popular and revered contemporary figurative painter. Since his birth, the artist has been immersed in the world of feminine beauty an...

Walter Dendy Sadler British, (1854-1923) The Widow’s Birthday Oil on canvas, signed Image size: 23.5 inches x 33.5 inches Size including frame: 30...

French School, early 1800's circle of Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) sketch of a scantly clad woman in a natural wooded landscape setting oil painting on wood panel, framed in per...

Peter Paul Rubens (After) - Helena (Helene) Fourment with her Son Francis (Frans) Very decorative Painting. Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Dimensions include the frame. The painting and...

A nicely detailed portrait of a young man by German American artist William Anton Joseph Claus (1862-1926). Claus was born in Germany, Studied under Otto Grundmann in Boston; as well...

"The Schoolroom" by Theo Duverger Theophile-Emmanuel Duverger 1821 - 1886 was a leading French genre painter, exhibitor at the Paris salon and in the Musee D'Orsay. Oil on Panel, sig...

Portrait painting of old master artist Raphael. Early 19th century Italian watercolor. Unsigned. Contemporary frame.

Cette huile sur toile est caractéristique de la production singulière de Gaston La Touche à partir de 1890 et reflète son univers plastique, marqué par certains motifs récurrents, te...

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...

Georges Croegaert 1848-1923 Belgian The Chess Game Signed "Georges Croegaert Paris" (lower right) Oil on panel This oil on panel by Belgian artist Georges Croegaert is a rich and...

Signed center right N Diaz. All of our works are covered by our own guarantee of authenticity which covers the work for its lifetime of ownership with the purc...

Antique miniature oil painting of Perseus and Andromeda on papier mache. Extraordinary detail. Titled and artist monogram on reverse. Pr...

Diptych  Icon representing the Archangel Michael and Saint Alexius, realized by Russian School in the late 19th Century. Good condition.

Alfred William Strutt British, (1856-1924) Good Sport Oil on canvas, signed, old hand written exhibition label verso with the artist’s address Image size: 31.5 inches x 54.5 inches S...

Evolving from the Korean tradition of tomb mural painting came the Buddhist practice of “taenghwa,” or hanging-painting, a form of religious painting that included hanging scrolls, framed paintings and wall murals. Influenced by Chinese and Central Asian Buddhist art...

La scena raffigurata è presa dal capitolo 20 del vangelo apocrifo dello Pseudo Matteo e raffigura un evento avvenuto durante la fuga in Egitto. Maria, stanca, chiede a Giuseppe di ra...

Signed and dated. Dimensions are without frame. Including certificate of authenticity. Frame has slight damage in places.

Joseph Clark ROI British, (1834-1926) A Bowl of Cherries Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1897 Image size: 17.25 inches x 22.25 inches Size including frame: 26.25 inches x 31.25 inches...

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...

House By The Sea signed and dated "88 Charles Haigh-Wood was born in 1856 in a home above a workshop in Bury, England where his father Charles Wood,...

JOAQUÍN DOMÍNGUEZ BÉCQUER Spanish, 1817 - 1879 OUTSIDE THE TAVERN signed, located & dated "Joaq. D. Becquer. Sevilla 1849." (lower right) oil...

"A Short Break from Work" captures the essence of a fleeting moment in the life of a young boy, skillfully portrayed by the artist John George Brown in oil on canvas or board. The sc...

Virginia Granbery (1831-1921) was an accomplished American artist known for her work in watercolor and oil paintings. Granbery's works predominantly featured landscapes, floral studi...

An atmospheric late 19th-century seascape by the artist Edward Tucker (1825-1909). As the day draws to a close, golden light bathes the still harbour. Signed to the lower left. Well ...

Pair of antique Orientalist oil paintings by de Hagemann French, 19th Century Canvas: Height 44cm, width 29.5cm, depth 2cm Frames: Height 64cm, w...

Art nouveau painting of beautiful maiden and mischievous angels. An allegory of Spring. Watercolor painting by Alessandro Rontini (Italian born 1854). In beautiful custom floral deco...

Louis-Alexandre CABIÉ (Dol-de-Bretagne 1853 - Bordeaux 1939) l'Aumance à Hérisson - Allier Oil on panel H. 26.5 cm; W. 35 cm Signed lower left, dated 1899, located Titled on the back...

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...

Antique American modernist nocturnal street scene oil painting by Jerome Myers (1867 - 1940). Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Measuring 16 by 18 inches overall and 9 by 11 painting al...

Governor John Penn Inspecting The Legion At the Isle Of Portland, Dorset, 1805 John Penn (1760-1834) was the chief proprietor of Pennsylvania until 1776 when it was confiscate follo...

A large antique Christian painting of the vision of Saint Francis French, 19th Century Frame: height 168cm, width 125cm, depth 5cm Canvas: h...

Oil Painting by Alexander Davidson "Morning Sunshine" Alexander Davidson 1838-1887 was a Glaswegian painter of domestic scenes, he exhibited at the ...

After Napoleon introduced Europe to the different and exotic life of the Middles East, it was Delacroix who was the first to return. He brought back vivid images to an unbelieving pu...

The painting "A Possible Purchase" by Charles Louis Verwee, a renowned Belgian artist, captures a delicate and poignant moment. In this piece, a woman is depicted standing in an opul...

This beautiful oil on canvas painting of a Swiss Landscape is circa 1870 and is by the artist Eduard Boehm (1830 - 1890). Austrian landscape pain...

"Walk in the autumn forest by A. or O. Hamel". Düsseldorf, Germany. Dimension without frame: 106 cm x 82 cm). Frame slightly damaged in places. Major damage to the upper left corner...

Fine 19th Century Enamel on Porcelain Depicting Saint Anthony with the Christ Child Beautiful and finely detailed enamel painting on porcelain representing Saint Anthony of Padua wit...

Dutch estuary landscape Oil on canvas, 30x40,5 cm The artwork depicts a landscape scene of an estuary in the Netherlands, showcasing the unique characteristics and natural beauty o...

Well-fed, well-dressed, and well satisfied, counting and accounting for the money. The unknown painter has caught in these two the personification of the approbation against a profes...

Georges Washington 1827-1910 American Le Voyage - Halte au bord de l'Oued Oil on canvas Signed lower right Canvas: 16 7/8" high x 23 5/8" wide Frame: 29...

Peasants at work. Oil on canvas signed Garnier, signature to be identified. Superficial cracks and very small paint losses, good general condition. 32 x 40 cm.

Samuel John Egbert Jones (1797- 1861) PHEASANT SHOOTING Oil on canvas Frame H. 38cm x W. 47cm Image H. 30cm x W. 40cm A hunting scene in a beautiful early autumnal wooded landscape, with two hounds and a pheasant in the foreground. For an artist of such ability, popularity and wide output, information about Samuel Jones is comparatively scarce. Samual John Egbert Jones was born in 1797. Living in London, the first recorded mention of him was as an exhibitor at the Royal Academy in 1820 with a picture of an old mare, which he later exhibited at the British Institute in 1824. Jones is best known for the fine quality of his sporting pictures, mainly portraits of hunting and work horses. Additionally, he painted coaching...

'Love lyrics,' a romantic Italian genre painting by Antonio Paoletti Italian, Late 19th Century Panel: height 40cm, width 50cm, depth 1cm Frame:...

LEVIGNE Théodore (1848-1912) "Genre scene in 18th century" Oil on canvas signed low right Old original frame Dim canvas : 72 X 100 cm Dim frame : 103 X 127 cm LEVIGNE Théodore (1848...

***PLEASE NOTE: EACH PAINTING INCLUDING THE FRAME MEASURES 16.75 INCHES X 14.5 INCHES*** Federico Andreotti Italian, (1847-1930) A Bouquet of Flowers & A Fine Vintage Oil on canvas, pair, both signed Image size: 12 inches x 9.75 inches (each) Size including frame: 16.75 inches x 14.5 inches (each) A delightful pair of three quarter length portraits of Italian women by Federico Andreotti. The first work shows a young woman in fine clothing with a basket of flowers in her hands. The second painting depicts a traditionally dressed woman holding a Chianti Fiasco and other wine bottles. Federico or Federigo Andreotti was a genre and figure painter born in Florence on 6 March, 1847. He showed artistic talent from an early age and at 9 years old began receiving art lessons from the miniature painter Angiolo Tricca (1817-1884). At the age of 17, he attended the Art Academy in Florence where he studied under Enrico Pollastrini (1817-1876), the President of the Academy. Whilst there he won a competition and made a name for himself by producing amusing genre scenes and costume studies. His success attracted the patronage of wealthy and notable clients including the King of Italy who commissioned him to paint a large historical painting of Savonarola. As well as working as an artist, he also taught art at the Florentine Academy where he was made Professor in 1879. During the same year, he began exhibiting abroad and made his debut at the Royal Academy in London, where he continued to show his works until 1883. He is believed to have spent time in England around this period where he also exhibited at other galleries including the Royal Manchester Institution, United Galleries, Arthur Tooth & Sons and Thomas Richardson & co. He spent most of his life in Florence where he died on 30 October, 1930. His painting of Savonarola is held by the Italian government. Other examples of his work can be found in a number of UK public art collections including the Blackburn Museum, Fylde Town Hall, Glasgow Museum, Hawarth Art Gallery and Towneley Hall Art Museum. Presentation: The paintings are housed in new, English made gilt frames which are in excellent condition. Condition: As with all of our original antique oil paintings, these works are offered in ready to hang gallery condition, having been professionally cleaned, restored and revarnished. © Benton Fine Art

The French-Prussian War is an original modern artwork realized by the French painter Raoul-Joseph Arus in the last decades of the XIX Century. Original Oil painting on Canvas. Hand...

Alone in the world Signature on the left Presented in a period frame Provenance: Sold in Paris on February 6, 1895, at Drouot, for 140 Gold Francs (Bénézit) Biography Henri-Joseph ...

Émile Munier, a French academic artist born in 1840, was renowned for his exquisite depictions of children and domestic scenes during the late 19th century. "Mom in Love," a masterpi...

A child of the American South, Elliott Daingerfield was born in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, and raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where his father, C...

André Gill (1840 - 1885) Portrait of Daubray (1837 - 1892) Oil on panel 55 x 37 cm (74 x 55 cm with frame) Signed top right. Michel René Thibaut, known as Daubray, was a leading Fre...

Large figurative Orientalist oil painting by Frederick Goodall English, 19th Century Canvas: Height 102cm, width 89cm, depth 2cm Frame: Height 119cm, width 106cm, depth 5cm This ex...

Decorative antique painting, oil on canvas, 19th century. Walking the dog, castle view. Dimensions with frame: 65.5 cm x 74 cm

American School, Mid-19th Century The Clipper Mary Lee in High Seas Oil on canvas Unsigned 25 x 35 inches

This is one of Raeburns best works from his best period that is not in a museum or private collection. Three-quarter length portrait, seated in a white dress with a black scarf over...

A dramatic, one of a kind oil study. Certainly not your run of the mill 19th Century portait! Depicted is a young man, whose face is brightly lit from what is likely is an open fire....

French Romantic school of the 19th Century The artist's inspiration Oil on canvas transferred on wood It is in good condition, but the material has irregularities due to the canvas...