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Period: Late 19th Century
Victorian Oil Charming London Park Scene with Dapper Gentleman Smoking & Horses
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Dapper Gentleman in the London Park
by Philip Henry Rideout (British, late 19th century)
signed & dated 1895
oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 17.5 x 14.5 inches
Canvas : 12 x 10 inches
...
Category
English School Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Victorian 19th century Moonlight landscape with river, fishermen and a watermill
Located in Woodbury, CT
Victorian 19th century Moonlight landscape with river, fishermen and a watermill.
J.Barclay was the pseudonym for the illustrator Horace Hammond who lived in Birmingham. Most of his...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,960 Sale Price
20% Off
19th century English River Scene on the Medway
Located in Woodbury, CT
This painting, titled On the Medway, is by George Stanfield Walters (1838–1924), a renowned British maritime artist celebrated for his atmospheric depictions of coastal and river sce...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
“Union Calvery Army”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting of the Union Army Calvery in the field by the well known American artist Rofus Fairchild Zogbaum. Signed lower left and dated 1885. Condition is good. Craquelure throughout. Paint is stable. Tiny old repair in middle lower sky (see last photo). The painting is housed in its original gilt wood frame. Overall framed measurements are 20.5 by 30.5 inches. Provenance: A Brooklyn, New York estate.
Best known for his masterful and meticulous scenes of military engagements and nineteenth-century life in the American West, Rufus Zogbaum’s circle of acquaintances was wide and diverse. He mingled with naval commodores as well as emerging luminaries in American art, such as Norman Rockwell, his fellow illustrator and neighbor in the art colony of New Rochelle, New York. When the British writer Rudyard Kipling presented a copy of his first collection of short stories, Plain Tales from the Hills (1888), to Robley D. Evans, then captain of the USS Indiana, in 1896, the gift included a tipped-in original gouache painting by Zogbaum, whom Kipling cited in a brief poem on the leaf opposite the book’s title page. Kipling’s inscription and the four-quatrain poem begins: “Zogbaum draws with a pencil, / And I do things with a pen.”
Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum was the son of Ferdinand Zogbaum and Mary Fairchild. The future artist’s father and his paternal uncle, Rufus Fairchild, were partners in a thriving musical instrument manufacturing and import business, first established in 1845 and then relocated to New York in 1853. Although he initially apprenticed in the family office, Rufus enrolled at the Art Students League, where he studied between 1878 and 1879. After pursuing further instruction at Germany’s University of Heidelberg in 1880, he moved on to Paris. During his two-year stay in the French capital, 1880–1882, he was a pupil of Léon Bonnat, a classical realist whose carefully constructed, emotive paintings of peasant life and religious passion reflected academic precepts of the day. The French master’s influence can be seen in Zogbaum’s oeuvre of highly-detailed, heroic paintings.
Upon his return to America, Zogbaum found regular work as an illustrator; between 1883 and 1899, he frequently contributed drawings to popular periodicals like the Saturday Evening Post, North American Review, and Harper’s Monthly, where he eventually earned a staff position. In 1884, he began a run of travels to the western territories, notably Montana. The fruits of these visits were seen in the drawings that accompanied magazine articles informed by the ideals of Manifest Destiny, as well as in finished oil paintings of cowboys...
Category
Academic Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$5,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Grosse Mer - Etretat - Impressionist Seascape Landscape Oil by Maxime Maufra
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Impressionist oil on canvas seascape painting circa 1895 by French artist Maxime Maufra. This stunning work depicts a sailing boat on a vast ocean. The choppy water is painted in greens and blues. The white clouds rolling across the blue sky are beautifully shaded in purple tones.
Signature:
Signed lower left and titled on original label verso
Dimensions:
Framed: 22"x25"
Unframed: 15"x18"
Provenance:
This work is included in the catalogue raisonne of Maxime Maufra under reference 284
Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired directly from the artist on 5 April 1895)
Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York (acquired from the above in 1895)
Marlborough Fine Arts, Ltd., London (acquired after 1949)
Dr. Renate Davis, London (acquired from the above)
Lyon & Turnbull London, 28 November 2013, lot 111 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above sale)
Sotheby's New York, 15 November 2017, lot 101 (consigned by the above)
Maufra spent several years in England, notably in Liverpool, with his father, who wanted him to become a tradesman. He decided to take up painting instead and returned to France in 1883, attracting the attention of Octave Mirbeau in his very first exhibition, and subsequently being noticed by Frantz Jourdain in 1894 and Fontenais in 1901. In 1886, he successfully exhibited two seascapes at the Salon, following which he visited Brittany in 1890, making the acquaintance of Gauguin and Sérusier in Pont-Aven; he collaborated with them on the decoration of the Pouldu Inn in 1894. He maintained his acquaintance with the Nabis group artists Henry Moret and Gustave Loiseau. He travelled in l'Isère, Belgium, and Algeria (1913), as well as Paris, the Ile de France, Brittany and Normandy. From 1895, the Galerie Durand-Ruel assured the success of his work.
Maufra settled in Montmartre for about ten years during which he painted the old quarters of Paris, often around the church of St Séverin. He then turned to Brittany and Normandy for inspiration in keeping with a resolve to paint only from nature, his seascapes in particular finding favour. The influence of the Nabis on his work remains limited except in the 'synthetic' organisation of the composition. He was an admirer of Sisley and Pissarro, whose influence can be seen in his paintings. Maufra, like Valtat, went to some extent beyond Impressionism to become a forerunner of Fauvism in his use of colour.
An important retrospective exhibition of Maufra's work, prefaced by René Domergue, was organised in Paris around 1950. In 2001, his work was represented in the exhibition Painters and the Sarthe Region ( Les Peintres et la Sarthe) held at the Musée de la Reine Bérengère (for the 19th century) and the Abbaye de l'Épau (for the 20th century) at Le Mans. In 2003, his work appeared in the group exhibition Brittany, Land of Painters ( Bretagne, Terre des Peintres) at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Vannes.
Museum and Gallery Holdings:
Bergues: Seascapes
Boston: Dusk in Douarnenez; Departure of Fishing Boats
Buffalo: Transport Quittant Le Havre
Chicago: Douarnenez the Town of Light
Cholet: Flood
Cincinnati (AM): The Coast, Bay of Douarnenez (Vue de Douarnenez) (painting)
Helsinki: St-Guénolé
Le Havre: Moonrise in Brittany
Manchester: Springtime in Lavardin
Montpellier: Hills of Morgat
Mulhouse: Low Tide
Nantes (MBA): La Prairie d'Amont (1888, oil on canvas); Pointe du Raz; Heavy Swell; The Loir Dam in Poncé (oil on canvas)
Paris (Mus. d'Orsay): Brittany Landscape...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Orientalist Painting "Constantine (Algeria) 1893" Claude Firmin-Goy (1864-1944)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Constantine (Algeria) 1893”
Claude Firmin-Goy
Oil on canvas
12 1/4 x 16 1/2 (16 1/2 x 20 3/4 frame) inches
This bright and luminous work by the Avignon painter Claude Firmin-Goy re...
Category
Art Nouveau Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$14,240 Sale Price
20% Off
Mother Washing with Children Nearby
Located in Stockholm, SE
This delightful painting by Carl Ewald Lönngren captures a serene moment of rural life in late 19th-century Sweden. The scene shows a mother kneeling by a wash basin, surrounded by h...
Category
Realist Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
19th century Portrait of a Bulldog Mum with puppies in a barn interior playing
Located in Woodbury, CT
Attributed to Edwin Loder (British, fl. mid–late 19th Century)
Mother Dog and Puppies in a Stable Interior
Oil on canvas, unsigned
English School, circa 1880
Presented in a period-st...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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 Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Antique Scottish Highlands Loch Scene with Boatman Tranquil Signed Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Highland Loch
by Sidney Yates Johnson, dated 1899
signed oil on canvas, unframed
Canvas : 12 x 24 inches
Provenance: private collection, UK
Condition: very good condition
Descri...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Italian Portrait of Old Fisherman with Pipe Characterful Chap
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of an Elderly Fisherman
Italian School, 19th century
oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 14 x 12 inches
Canvas: 10.5 x 9 inches
Provenance: private collection
Condition: several s...
Category
Italian School Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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 Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Harvest Scene With Farmer and Scythe, 1886
Located in Stockholm, SE
"Harvest Scene With Farmer and Scythe, 1886" is a captivating painting by the Swedish artist Alfred Thörne. Created during his travels through Germany, France, Italy, and Belgium bet...
Category
Romantic Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fetching Water by the River /// British Impressionism Yeend King Oil Painting
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Henry John Yeend King (English, 1855-1924)
Title: "Fetching Water by the River"
*Signed by King lower left
Circa: 1890
Medium: Original Oil Painting on Canvas
Framing: Frame...
Category
Post-Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil, Gesso
Still Life with Flowers - Oil Paint - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Stil life with flowers is an artwork realized by an artist of the mid-20th Century.
Oil on panel, 35 x 48 cm with frame; panel 20 x 32 cm.
Good conditions
Category
Modern Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$532 Sale Price
25% Off
Peniches sur la Seine - Impressionist Landscape Oil - Armand Guillaumin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed impressionist landscape oil on canvas by French painter Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin. The work depicts barges moored on the b...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Crossing a Stream in the Highlands, Great Britain, Children, Figural, Landscape
Located in Wiscasset, ME
"Crossing a Stream in the Highlands" featuring children and their dog wading through a mountain stream was painted by the British artist, Edward Holmes, in 1880. Holmes was born in 1841, the brother of renowned Victorian genre painter, George Augustus Holmes...
Category
Realist Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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 Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Georges Laugée "The Gleaners" French Peasant Woman Working in Field oil/canvas
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Georges Laugée was a painter known for portrait and peasant figures in landscape painting. He was influenced by William Bouguereau and Jules Breton, gracing the figures in his compos...
Category
French School Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Odalisque
Located in Stockholm, SE
An oriental odalisque standing holding her hands together upwards against the side of her head. Behind her a drapery and to the right further back an opening towards a terass with su...
Category
Other Art Style Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,453
Antique German Signed Oil Painting Portrait of Bavarian Gentleman with Pipe
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Bavarian Gentleman with Pipe
by Theodor Recknagl (1865-1945) German
signed oil on board, framed
board : 7 x 5.5 inches
Provenance: private collection, UK
Condition: som...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Emmanuel Costa Riverside Town Landscape Painting
By Emmanuel Costa
Located in New York, NY
Attributed to Emmanuel Costa (French, 1833-1921)
Untitled, c. Late 19th century
Oil on wood panel
9 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.
Framed: 14 x 18 x 1 1/4 in.
Signed lower right: Costa Emmanuel
B...
Category
French School Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
French School 19th Century, Portrait of a young man, 1891, signed and dated
Located in Paris, FR
French School of the 19th century
Portrait of a young man, 1891
Signed (illegible) and dated 91 on the lower right
Oil on canvas
46 x 38 cm
Framed 52 x 44
In good condition, recently...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1890's French Impressionist Oil Painting Lady Walking Country Landscape Fields
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figure in Landscape
French School, circa 1890's
follower of Camille Pissarro (Danish/ French 1830-1903)
dated 'Mai 1890' to the lower right corner.
oil painting on canvas, framed
ca...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$5,398 Sale Price
30% Off
19th century English lake landscape, Ullswater, Gowbarrow Park, Cumberland UK
Located in Woodbury, CT
Samuel Henry Baker (British, 1824–1909)
Ullswater from Gowbarrow Park, Cumberland, late 19th century
Oil on canvas
In this sweeping view of Ullswater, nestled in the heart of the La...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th century English riverside landscape with, cows, river and people at Sunset
By Edwin Buttery
Located in Woodbury, CT
Late 19th century English landscape by Edwin Buttery.
This exquisite late Victorian English landscape by Edwin Buttery is a masterful example of the period’s romanticized appreciatio...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View from Visby, Gotland, c. 1883
Located in Stockholm, SE
This painting by Elisabeth Keyser beautifully captures a scenic view from the northern city wall of Visby, near Lübeckerbräschen. The landscape showcases a stretch of coastline leadi...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$4,140 Sale Price
20% Off
English Yacht, Sail Boat and Steamer off a coast with stormy sky.
Located in Woodbury, CT
19th-century English yacht, sailboat, and steamer off a coast with a stormy sky.
John Niemann was a prolific and highly successful British landscape artist working mostly in oils. ...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Arturo Orselli, The Flirtatious Huntsman
By Arturo Orselli
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming late 19th-century oil painting by Arturo Orselli (fl. 1880-1896) depicts a huntsman wearing riding gear conversing somewhat flirtatiously with two ladies.
Attired in o...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Summers Evening in the Scottish Highlands Antique Oil Painting Sunset Loch View
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Summers Evening in the Highlands
by Frank Hider (c. 1861–1933)
signed, titled verso
oil painting on canvas, framed
framed: 17 x 25 inches
canvas: 12 x 20 inches
Provenance: Private ...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of Mother, Child, and Dog titled "The Cradle and the Companion"
By Henry Bacon
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This tender interior scene by Henry Bacon captures a moment of warmth and domestic harmony. A young mother leans gently over a carved red cradle while her daughter, dressed in a whit...
Category
Hudson River School Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Antique French Post-Impressionist Oil Painting Portrait of Drummer Large Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Drummer
French School, late 19th century
Post-Impressionist School
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 28 x 22.5 inches
canvas: 24 x 18 inches
provenance: private collection, France
co...
Category
Post-Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Original Late 19th Century Oil Painting of Upstate New York Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Late 19th Century Upstate New York Oil Painting Landscape by Frances B. Clark
Moody rural Hudson River School style painting of Upstate ...
Category
Post-Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Stretcher Bars, Linen
Charles Bale (British) - 19th century still life painting - Fish and shrimp
Located in Varmo, IT
Charles Thomas Bale (British, 1845 - 1925) - Still life of fish and shrimp.
30.5 x 60.5 cm without frame, 50 x 80 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in wooden frame.
-...
Category
Naturalistic Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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 Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View of Mt. Etna From the Ruins of the Theatre at Taormina, 19th Century Italian
Located in Beachwood, OH
Alessandro La Volpe (Italian, 1820-1887)
View of Mt. Etna From the Ruins of the Theatre at Taormina, 1883
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
29.5 x 52.5 inches
39 x 62 inches...
Category
Italian School Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
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 Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Feeding the Ducks' an antique oil painting
Located in St. Albans, GB
This painting is in excellent condition having been behind glass until recently. The colours are preserved and the canvas is blemish free.
Artwork Size: 30 x 36" (76 x 91cm)
Artwor...
Category
Dutch School Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$52,718 Sale Price
20% Off
Paysage a Moulineux - Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Maximillien Luce
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on board landscape by French impressionist painter Maximilien Luce. The work depicts a view of rolling French countryside on a summer's day with white clouds contrasting t...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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 Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Paul Madeline, French Impressionist summer garden scene
Located in Harkstead, GB
A really beautiful example of Post-Impressionist painting; the picture space filled with light and wonderfully free brushwork. A most attractive rustic image presented in very good o...
Category
Post-Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th century English oil of still life of fruit, German Stein with silver lid
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding English 19th century still life of fruit, a German Stein with silver top in an interior.
Charles Thomas Bale was born in Soho, London in 1849, the son of Thomas Bale, a basket maker. His older brother Thomas Charles Bale (1831-1899) was an artist and picture restorer. He lived with his family in St James, Westminster and although little is known about his education, he would have undoubtedly received encouragement and drawing tuition from his brother. Bale started exhibiting in 1866 at the Institute of British Artists, Suffolk Street. He also exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1872, the same year he married Caroline Leathem. Together, they spent their married life in St Pancras. He specialized in still life paintings predominantly of fruit, but he frequently incorporated baskets, a homage to his family’s profession, as well as pottery, glass, and game. Bale’s work was influenced by the English still-life artists George Lance and William Duffield...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large German Orientalist Oil Painting of Horse Riders by Schreyer
Located in London, GB
Large German Orientalist oil painting of horse riders by Schreyer
German, Late 19th Century
Canvas: Height 59cm, width 96cm
Frame: Height 85cm, width 122cm, depth 8cm
This outstandi...
Category
Late 19th Century 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 Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Spanish Lady. Oil painting on canvas. Charles Baxter
By Charles Baxter
Located in St. Albans, GB
A perfect example of Charles Baxter's work. A beautiful Spanish lady wearing typical Spanish attire. Despite being unsigned, the painting has full provenance having being fully catal...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique English Oil Tranquil Riverside Landscape Richmond Castle Yorkshire
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Richmond Castle, Yorkshire from the River Swale
by Everett W. Mellor (1878-1965)
signed oil on board, framed
Framed: 15 x 19 inches
Board: 10 x 14 inches
Provenance: private collecti...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,962 Sale Price
30% Off
“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 Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,200 Sale Price
31% Off
Cardinals & Explorer Discussing Maps Grand Elaborate Interior Antique Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Studying the Maps
Italian School, late 19th century
signed lower corner
watercolour on board, framed
framed: 24.5 x 17.5 inches
painting: 20.5 x 14 inches
provenance: private collect...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$2,404 Sale Price
30% Off
W. Miller (British Naturalistic painter) - 19th century landscape painting River
Located in Varmo, IT
W. Miller (British, late 19th century) - Woodland landscape with stream.
92 x 71 cm.
Antique oil painting on canvas, without frame.
- Work signed bottom left: “W. Miller."
Condit...
Category
Naturalistic Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique British Marine Oil Painting Tantallon Castle Scotland Coastal Sunset
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Tantallon Castle, Scotland *see notes below
by William Anslow Thornely (British, 1847-1907)
signed oil painting on panel, framed
framed: 14.5 x 18.5 inches
panel: 8 x 12 inches
Provenance: private collection, England
Condition: overall very good condition
William Anslow Thornley (1847–1907) was a British maritime and landscape painter known for his atmospheric seascapes and coastal scenes. He worked primarily in oils and watercolors, often depicting harbors, ships, and the changing moods of the sea. Thornley was skilled at capturing the effects of light and weather, particularly in twilight and moonlit settings, which added a romantic and serene quality to his works.
Although not much is widely known about his personal life, Thornley's style reflects the influence of British Romanticism and the Victorian...
Category
Victorian Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Waiting
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Excerpted from The Painter's Journey: The Art of William S. Robinson, The Cooley Gallery
Born in East Gloucester, Massachusetts, William S. Robinson became a talented and successful...
Category
American Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Auguste Groh - 1871 Oil, Tavern Smoker
Located in Corsham, GB
This genre painting captures a moment of leisure in a tavern interior, depicting a man seated casually at a table with a pipe and drink. Signed and dated to the lower right. Presente...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Le Cabaret - Montmartre 1897- Impressionist Figurative Oil by Louis Abel Truchet
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated oil on canvas figures in interior by French impressionist painter Louis Abel Truchet. The piece depicts revellers at a French cabaret Montmartre.
Signature:
Signed ...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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 Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Les Baigneuses - Impressionist Figurative Landscape Oil by Jean Louis Forain
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed impressionist figurative oil on canvas circa 1890 by sought after French impressionist painter Jean Louis Forain. The piece depicts bathers in a dark landscape.
Signature:
Signed lower right
Dimensions:
Framed: 32"x37"
Unframed: 24"x29"
Provenance:
Private French collection
Jean Forain was the son of a painter and decorator and was apprenticed to a visiting card engraver. He studied briefly under Gérôme and Carpeaux at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and regularly visited the Louvre, where he copied works by the masters. It is said that for a time he made a precarious living by selling small drawings in the style of Grévin. He went on to collaborate on various publications as a draughtsman and columnist, starting in 1876 on La Cravache and then collaborating on the newspapers Le Journal Amusant, Le Figaro and L'Écho de Paris. This introduced him to the diverse worlds of Paris society - the world of the theatre, of shows, and of literature - where he wryly noted the habits and shortcomings particular to each. This led him to follow a route very characteristic of this period, already seen in the work of Steinlen, Caran d'Ache and Toulouse-Lautrec in the journals La Pléiade, La Vogue...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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.
Auctions records for the artist exceed $6,000.
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 Cleveland's 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
Hudson River School Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
'A Forest in Winter' by Hendrik Barend Koekkoek (Amsterdam 1849 – 1909 London)
Located in Knokke, BE
Hendrik Barend Koekkoek
Amsterdam 1849 – 1909 London
Dutch Painter
'Figures Strolling through a Forest in Winter'
Signature: signed lower right 'H B Koekkoek', c. 1882-1900
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: image size 76,5 x 64 cm, frame size 103 x 89,5 cm
Biography: Hendrik Barend Koekkoek, often signing as Hendrik Barend (H.B.) Koekkoek, in the realm of 19th-century art, emerges as a captivating painter born in Amsterdam on November 23, 1849. A scion of the esteemed Koekkoek family, he gained renown for his landscapes and woodland scenes, following in the artistic footsteps of his father, marine painter Hermanus Koekkoek.
Barend Hendrik Koekkoek’s life unfolds with a certain mystery, his artistic journey shaped by training from his father and, likely, his uncle Marinus Adrianus. In 1878, he tied the knot with Carolina Allardina Cornelia Pierson and ventured into the artistic scenes of Hilversum and Brussels, simultaneously opening an art dealership in Amsterdam.
Around 1882, the call of London beckoned, echoing the path paved by his brother Hermanus Koekkoek the Younger. In England, he painted landscapes near Guildford, akin to his cousin Pieter Hendrik Koekkoek. The latter part of his life remains shrouded in obscurity.
Barend Hendrik Koekkoek’s artistic style, steeped in the romantic tradition of the Koekkoek family, adorned canvases with landscapes, woodlands, and marine scenes. His London sojourn witnessed the creation of winter landscapes with towering trees, showcased in exhibitions across Dutch cities. He breathed his last in London before 1909.
His artistic legacy lives on in institutions like the Paul Tétar van...
Category
Romantic Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Amor et Pietas - Important 19th Century Royal Academy Exhibition Oil Painting
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Amor et Pietas’ by Ursula Wood S.W.A. (1868-1956).
The painting – which depicts a group of children laying to rest their pet dog – is signed and dated by the artist. Ursula Wood’s ...
Category
Aesthetic Movement Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Wilfred Gabriel de Glehn, British Impressionist plein air oil landscape
Located in Harkstead, GB
A very early, seminal work by this highly important British artist dating to 1893. The artist was a good friend of John Singer Sargent and they painted together around Europe.
The...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French impressionist landscape, Barbizon forest, Paris with river and cows
Located in Woodbury, CT
19th century English impressionist scene of the Barbizon forest, near Paris France, with a river, cows, and trees.
Boyle was a pioneering 19th-century British artist inspired by E...
Category
Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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