Early 1800s Figurative Paintings

➡️Luminous - beautiful Landscape⬅️ ⏩It is signed J. Deridder but this painting is exceptional. Under this signature hides another artist, Plefever. Perhaps, an artist wanted to reap...

This beautiful early 19th-century oil painting attributed to French artist Louis Bélanger (1756-1816) depicts an extensive Italianate view with pictures...

Alexander Nasmyth (1758-1840) is a renowned Scottish artist and early plein art landscape artist, whose six children also became well known artists. Work by Nasmyth is highly valued....

The hairstyle and the glaring recall to the tricolour, on the other side, leave no doubts on the enthusiastic subscription of the portrayed to the Cisalpine Republic (a sister republic of France...

The action of 13 January 1797 was a minor naval battle fought between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany during the French Revolutionary Wars. During the action the frigates outmaneuvered the much larger French vessel and drove it onto shore in heavy seas, resulting in the deaths of between 400 and 1,000 of the 1,300 persons aboard. One of the British frigates was also lost in the engagement with six sailors drowned after running onto a sandbank while failing to escape a lee shore. The French 74-gun ship Droits de l'Homme had been part of the Expédition d'Irlande, an unsuccessful attempt by a French expeditionary force to invade Ireland. During the operation, the French fleet was beset by poor coordination and violent weather, eventually being compelled to return to France without landing a single soldier. Two British frigates, the 44-gun HMS Indefatigable and the 36-gun HMS Amazon had been ordered to patrol the seas off Ushant in an attempt to intercept the returning French force and sighted the Droits de l'Homme on the afternoon of 13 January. The engagement lasted for more than 15 hours, in an increasing gale and the constant presence of the rocky Breton coast. The seas were so rough that the French ship was unable to open the lower gunports during the action and as a result could only fire the upper deck guns, significantly reducing the advantage that a ship of the line would normally have over the smaller frigates. The damage the more maneuverable British vessels inflicted on the French ship was so severe that as the winds increased, the French crew lost control and the Droits de l'Homme was swept onto a sandbar and destroyed. Thomas Buttersworth...

Thomas Hand was an English painter who was known as a follower and imitator of George Morland. He died in London in September 1804. Hand exhibited a landscape with the Incorporated Society of Artists in 1790. From 1792 to 1804, he occasionally exhibited at the Royal Academy. Some of his pictures were close enough to Morland's manner to have been misattributed. This is an outstanding oil on mahogany wood panel. The quality of the piece is astounding and so is the condition of a painting that's over 200 years old. Shooting paintings...

Wonderful Early 19th century English still life of fruit and a Chaffinch in an interior. This piece is a very fine quality English st...

‘Falling Leaves’ by Edgar Barclay (1842-1913). The painting is signed by the artist and dated 1906, and was exhibited at the Royal Academy in the same year. It hangs in its original ...

Superb late 18th-early 19th-century portrait study of a young boy holding his favorite book. the piece is very well painted and in great condition for its age. It came from a private...

Wonderfully painted 18th century English/British portrait of Charles the First of England. though the artist is unknown the work is of outstanding qu...

Wonderful Early 19th-century English landscape. The painting is from the first part of the 19th-century and has all the quality of the 18th-century traditional landscape painters. T...

Provenance: Martin Henry Colnaghi (1821-1908) and Amy Mary Colnaghi, née Smith (1859-1940), by 1894. Private Collection, USA, until 2018. Exhibited: Winter Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1 January – 10 March 1894, no. 250, as “Battle Scene,” by Thomas Stothard...