Early 18th Century Figurative Paintings

Wonderful Italian painting from the first half of the 18th century. Oil on canvas artwork with a delightful composition depicting an adult angel and a cherub immersed in a soft celes...

Holy Baptism, Oil painting on canvas by an unknown artist About the artwork: Bible Scene, Early 18th Century, Florentine School TECHNIQUE: oil pai...

Jean-Baptiste SANTERRE (Magny-en-Vexin, 1658- Paris, 1717) The cabbage cutter Oil on canvas H. 86 cm; L. 70 cm Jean-Baptiste Santerre began his apprent...

Francesco Lavagna (active in Naples in the mid-18th century) Title: Pair of Flower Vases Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: without frame 98 x 36 cm each - with frame 112 x 50 cm each...

This exquisite and exceedingly rare early 18th-century Russian Staurotek icon depicts The Crucifixion of Christ with an assemblage of saints, together with a 19th-century copper-cast...

Philippe de CHAMPAIGNE (1602-1674), follower of (possibly a pupil) Madonna with child Oil on canvas Dimensions: 70x55 cm (with frame: 88x72 cm). In good condition, relined, professi...

David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690) Follower of A Peasant Removing a Plaster: The Sense of Touch signed T on the table oil on panel panel size 7,20 x 5,55 inches (18,3 x 14,4 cm)...

Finísimo óleo sobre cobre de la Virgen con el Niño, de mediados del siglo XVIII. Seguramente es Escuela Flamenca, gran calidad, va con un marco de madera y estuco dorado del siglo X...

A striking 18th century oil depicting a pious Mary Magdalene. The artist portrays the saint with long, flowing blonde hair and penitent tears in her eyes. A skull at her hands remind...

Antonio Bellucci (Venice 1654 - Soligo 1726) - Diana and Endymion. 122 x 152 cm without frame, 142 x 172 cm with frame. Oil on canvas, in a carved a...

Circle of Hendrik Frans van Lint (Antwerp 1684 - Rome 1763) - Apollo and Daphne. 40 x 50 cm. Antique oil painting on canvas, without frame (not signed). Condition report: Lined ca...

Two oil on panel Old Master landscape paintings by Johannes Jakob Hartmann (Bohemian, 1680-1730) Bohemia, early 18th Century Panel: Height 73c...

This small landscape shows a hunting scene: two riders are chasing a stag with their dogs at the edge of a forest. Signed by Peter von Bemmel, it is typical of the production of this...

Interesante oleo sobre tabla de San Antonio de padua realizado en el siglo xviii Es de escuela Mexicana El estado es bueno Medidas de la obra: ...

Up for sale is a phenomenal Antique “Dutch School” original oil painting on canvas, depicting a genre scene. "By A. Van Ostade" - written on the back of the canvas (Ostade was a Du...

Portrait of a Lady English School, 18th century oil on canvas, unframed canvas : 31 x 25 inches provenance: private collection, UK condition: good and sound condition

As Florence Ingersoll-Smouse wrote in 1921 in her book devoted to Jean-Baptiste Pater, "a painter of the Fête galante, Pater is interesting both by his intimacy with Watteau, to whom many of his works are still attributed, and by his own value as an artist.” This sanguine, full of life and spontaneity, is typical of the preparatory studies made by the painter to be used later in the composition of his paintings. 1. Jean-Baptiste Pater, pupil and disciple of Antoine Watteau Antoine Pater, Jean-Baptiste's father, belonged to the petty bourgeoisie of Valenciennes where he worked as a merchant-sculptor. His brother Jacques was a local painter who was probably involved in his nephew's training. Born on December 29, 1695, Jean-Baptiste Pater was first trained with Jean-Baptiste Guider, a local painter whose death in 1711 was probably the reason for Jean-Baptiste’s departure alongside Watteau, who was visiting Valenciennes. Watteau's difficult character led to their separation in 1713. Back in Valenciennes, Jean-Baptiste Pater encountered difficulties with the powerful Corporation of Saint-Luke (to which he refused to belong) which forced him to return to Paris in 1718. He reconciled with Watteau shortly before his death (on July 18th 1721), inherited the commissions that Watteau had been unable to fulfil and completed some of his paintings. Pater was accepted by the Académie Royale in 1725 but did not produce his reception painting The soldier’s revels until three years later. Throughout his brief career (he died at the age of forty on July 25th 1736), he mainly had a clientele of amateurs and received only one royal commission, shortly before his death. 2. Description of the drawing and related artworks Pater had adopted his master Watteau's method of composition. His study drawings were carefully glued in a notebook and were used to animate his compositions. His paintings sometimes suffer from a somewhat artificial composition, since the figures seem to be pasted one next to the other. This point has also been made about Watteau’s. The theme of military scenes (which was at the time included in the genre of Fêtes galantes!) was one of Pater’s favourite subjects. Together with the Bathing Women...

Painting with a diameter of 130 cm and 160 x 160 cm with a marvellous frame depicting an 'allegory of the Earth' by the painter Felice Cignani ( Bologna 1660 - 1724 ). An oil on ca...

A romantic oil study depicting a couple resting on a woodland floor feeding each other fruit. The scene appears to be a play on the Four Seasons series by François Boucher where the...

Splendid Italian painting from the first half of the 18th century. Oil on canvas artwork depicting a scene of hermit life of Franciscan friars in attitudes of deep prayer. The mystic...

Splendid Flemish painting from the first half of the 18th century. Oil on canvas artwork depicting a magnificent game of cherubs that reveals itself, for some details, as a refined a...

Beautiful watercolor by Dirk Maas, a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. Provenance: R. Edereimer Print Cabinet, New York (label overleaf). Good conditio...

Questa ceramica dipinta, 33 x 24 cm senza la cornice, è ispirata dal "Riposo durante la fuga in Egitto" di Simone Cantarini detto il Pesarese, realizzato negli anni trenta del XVII s...

Circle of Giovan Battista Piazzetta (1683-1754), 18th century Christ the Savior Mundi Oil on canvas, 81 x 64 cm Framed, 90 x 72 cm This painting is configured within the eighteen...

Painting Oil on canvas measuring 72 x 92 cm and 98 x 114 cm with a wonderful contemporary frame depicting an outdoor inn scene by the painter Giacomo Francesco Cipper known as Todesc...

Oil on Canvas. The scene depicts a chamber concertino: in the center is the spinet player, behind him is the recorder player, and on the right side is the conducting maestro, who li...

Oil on canvas Image size: 24 x 18 1/2 inches (61 x 47 cm) Gilded wood framed Provenance Estate of Judge Davis Norton and Florence Edelstein. William Bateman was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1721 and 1734. He was made Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath...