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Old Masters Figurative Paintings

OLD MASTERS

Encompassing centuries of change in Europe between 1300 and 1800, from booms of prosperity to bloody revolutions, Old Masters describes a wide range of artists. The informal term was derived from the title of an artist who trained in a guild long enough to become a master, such as Leonardo da Vinci, who studied in a Florence painters’ guild. However, Old Masters paintings, prints and other art is now used to refer to work made by any artist with a high level of skill in painting, drawing, sculpture or printmaking who worked during this era.

The 15th century’s expansive trade and commerce spread culture across borders. A vibrant period of art emerged, bolstered by studies of anatomy and nature that influenced a new visual realism. From Raphael and Michelangelo in the Renaissance to Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer in the Dutch Golden Age, artists expressed emotion, naturalism, color and light in new ways. El Greco and Paolo Veronese were leaders in the dramatic style of Mannerism, while Caravaggio and Peter Paul Rubens demonstrated the movement and meticulous detail of Baroque art.

Historically, most attention was concentrated on male artists, but recent research and exhibitions have elevated the impactful work of women such as Rachel Ruysch and Artemisia Gentileschi. In late-18th-century France, female artists like Adélaïde Labille-Guiard and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun were prominent names. Nevertheless, access to the academies and guilds was highly restricted for women, and even those able to establish practices were expected to adhere to portraits and still lifes rather than the grand history paintings being created by men.

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Antique French Oil Painting Portrait of Man with Moustache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French School, 18th/ 19th century oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 24 x 19 inches provenance: private collection condition: very good and sound condition
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19th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas

Huge 18th Century English Aristocracy Portrait Mother & Child Stately Home oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English School, 18th century oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 53 x 45 inches canvas: 48 x 40 inches provenance: private collection, England condition: overall very presentable...
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Mid-18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil

18th century French Rococo Portrait painting of a noble lady - young lady
Located in Antwerp, BE
18th century French Rococo portrait of a young noble lady This cheerful young lady is looking at the spectator with a sparkling eyes has a cheeky smile on her face, almost as if she has just heard a funny story. She is very elegantly dressed, wearing a blue dress with embroidered silk sleeves. The bodice is adorned with a cream silk band which has been beautifully tied to a ribbon at the top, a tulle-lining completes the dress. Her hair is styled in an elaborate 18th century style and tied together with a blue and cream silk hairband. This portrait has been wonderfully painted, the artist not only beautifully depicted the fabrics, but also marvellously captured the happy nature of the sitter. The painting really has a soul, when one looks at it, it feels as if one is looking at a real person. It is very close to the works of Joseph-Siffred Duplessis (1725-1802) and it shares an uncanny resemblance to the portrait that he painted of the Comtesse de Provence, Princess of Savoie and wife of the King Louis XVIII of France. Duplessis is known to have reused many of his favoured compositions in different portraits, but he always applied slight differences, such as in the present painting. We believe that the present painting was created by someone from his very close circle. Joseph-Siffred Duplessis (1725-1802) was a renowned French portrait painter, famed for his intimately rendered portraits. After training for many years in Paris, Duplessis presented himself to the Académie in 1769 and was afforded the opportunity to exhibit regularly at the Salon. He was very successful and in 1777, he was allowed to paint a full-length portrait of Louis XVI (1754–1793) in his state robes. Two years later he created a portrait of Benjamin Franklin in a red coat with a fur collar, a painting which was the subject of much favorable comment. It was destined to become the artist’s most famous work and perhaps the best known image of the great American patriot...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

CAVALRY BATTLE - Antonio Savisio - Neapolitan School- Oil on canvas Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
Land Battle - Antonio Savisio Italia 2006 - Oil on canvas cm. 30x80 Gold leaf gilded wooden frame available on request Maestro Antonio Savisio drew inspiratio...
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Early 2000s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Abraham and the Sacrifice of His Son Isaac by Adriaen Van Stalbemt, C. 1605-1610
Located in Stockholm, SE
Artist: Adriaen van Stalbemt (Stalbempt) 1580-1662 Title: Abraham and the Sacrifice of His Son Isaac “Das Opfer des Abraham” According to the Old...
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Early 1600s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Copper

YOUTH AND WISDOM Ciro De Rosa Italian School - Italy Figurative Oil on painting
Located in Napoli, IT
Youth and wisdom -Ciro De Rosa Italia 2007 - Oil on canvas cm.60x50 Gold leaf gilded wooden frame cm.82x73 available on request The painting by Ciro De Rosa is characterized by light...
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Early 2000s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Christ before Herod, a drawing from the School of Titian
Located in PARIS, FR
This vigorous drawing is clearly inspired by the numerous compositions on the Ecce Homo theme which were produced by Titian and his workshop at the painter's maturity. However, the number of characters and their expressionist treatment, the many variations to Titian's paintings reveal a drawing made by an original artist, perhaps of foreign origin, belonging to the peripheral circle of the "Titian solar system”, as described by the art historian Enrico Maria del Pozzolo. 1. Titian, the leading artist of 16th century Venetian painting and his botteghe Tiziano Vecelli (or Vecellio), known as Titian, was born between 1489 and 1490 in Pieve di Cadore in the Veneto region of Italy into a wealthy family of soldiers and lawyers. At the age of 15, he joined the studio of Giovanni Bellini, where he became friend with Giorgione, ten years his senior. Giorgione introduced him to a new pictorial style in which forms are defined by colour and pictorial substance, freeing himself from the meticulous underlying drawings characteristic of Bellini's painting. Titian became the official painter of the Republic of Venice upon Bellini's death in 1516. In 1518, the completion of his Assumption for the church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice established his reputation as the leading painter of the Venetian school: throughout his career, Titian had a considerable impact on other artists of his time, whether they were direct collaborators, occasional contributors, or other artists under his influence. Considered one of the greatest portraitists of his time, his fame spread throughout Europe and he became the official painter of the greatest European families: the Gonzagas, the Farneses (Alessandro Farnese, of whom he executed several portraits, was elected pope in 1534 under the name of Paul III), the Habsburgs (he went to Augsburg in 1548 to paint the portrait of Charles V and King Philip II of Spain, his successor, later became the artist's main patron). As Titian almost reached the age of 90 years, he saw during his lifetime the death of many of his loved ones (his wife Cecilia, his brother Francesco and his son Orazio). A pathetic feeling appears in his late artworks, such as his famous Pieta, his last work intended to decorate his tomb which remained unfinished. Titian's success was also based on the establishment of a large and versatile workshop, which, alongside the traditional assistance in the production of certain paintings, ensured the publication of numerous woodcuts, allowing the master's works to be widely distributed. Long ignored by art historians, the individual stories of these various collaborators, the organisation of this workshop and the interactions of the collaborators with the master are at the heart of contemporary studies on the artist. 2. A complex composition with expressionist overtones Executed with great virtuosity in black chalk, the composition of our drawing is complex, even slightly confused and probably reflects several phases of execution, if not several hands. The scene is organised around the characters of Christ and an executioner wearing a Phrygian cap. Christ is presented at mid-body, slightly at an angle, his torso bare, his shoulders draped in a cloak, his hands clasped together and probably bound. His head, as if weighed down by the crown of thorns, is slightly bent forward. The eyes and mouth are hollowed out by the black chalk to better express his sorrow. The man wearing a Phrygian cap holds a whip in his right hand, while his left hand, barely outlined, seems to be pulling aside Christ's tunic as if he were about to scourge him. Two other men, who may have been added at a later stage, occupy the space between the executioner and Christ. One is depicted in profile, while the one behind Christ appears to be wearing a military helmet. In an indistinct gesture, his left arm is raised as if to strike Christ. Slightly behind Jesus on his left side, appears a bearded old man wearing a turban. With his left arm raised, he holds out the palm of his hand in a gesture of amazement. His face is finely executed and contrasts with the hand depicted in a rather crude manner. This character may also have been added at a later stage, as he does not fit in perfectly behind the group formed by Jesus and his executioner. This frieze is completed in the left foreground by two additional figures depicted in three-quarter view. Soberly sketched but with great fluidity, only their heads emerge, as if Christ and his executioners were situated on a pedestal above a large crowd. Finally, on the right-hand side of the composition, a second helmeted soldier is depicted. His musculature can be seen under his armour while he stares intently at Christ. He is smaller than the other figures, even though he appears in the front row, revealing a certain clumsiness on the part of the artist. 3. Ecce Homo, one of Titian’s favourite subjects in his twilight years In 1543, Titian tackled the theme of the Ecce Homo in a masterly composition now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Christ is presented by Pilate, dressed in an antique costume, at the top of a staircase, in a large, highly architectural setting animated by a crowd of characters. The title of the painting refers to a passage from the Gospel of St John (19, 1-5): “Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they slapped him in the face. Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews gathered there, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.” When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!” From the 1540s onwards, Titian and his workshop repeatedly depicted the Christ of Sorrows for their principal patrons. In these paintings, Titian returned to the half-body format that he had practically abandoned since 1520 and refocused the composition (compared to the large 1543 Ecce Homo) on the figure of Christ, who is depicted alone or accompanied by a few figures. With his eyes lowered and his head slightly bowed, Titian's Christ seems calmly resigned to his fate. Powerless and submissive, he arouses deep pathos from the viewer. The tondo in the Louvre Museum shows Christ in a position very similar to that of our drawing, a position that will be found in most of Titian's Ecce Homo. To his right stands a helmeted soldier who seems to be baring his shoulder and to his left a servant of Pilate wearing a Phrygian cap. These two figures are reminiscent of the soldier in the lower right corner and the executioner in the left most part of our drawing. Various versions were executed by Titian and his workshop until the late 1560s, and the version that seems closest to the right-hand side of our drawing is the one in the Prado Museum. Although of uneven quality, it is interesting to note the gesture of Pilate's hand, holding out the palm of his left hand towards the viewer, as if to distance himself from the decision that the crowd will make. Recent X-rays of the painting have shown that the executioner on the right, depicted from behind, was originally depicted in profile (as in our drawing), and that the other two figures (Pilate on the left of Christ and a servant wearing a Phrygian cap on his right) were added later. The painting was then organised around the diagonal that crosses the canvas from left to right, emphasised by the light coming from the window, and centred on the exchange of glances between Christ and the executioner on his left. The profile of the old man in the foreground on the left could be inspired by that of the elderly Titian as it appears repeatedly in the painter's late artworks, such as the Madonna of Mercy in the Palatine Gallery. 4. A deeply original drawing, at the risk of confusion We saw in the last paragraph the various borrowings from Titian's depictions of the Ecce Homo that can be found in this drawing: the position of Christ, the presence of executioners wearing Phrygian caps and of helmeted soldiers, one of whom is looking at Christ in a position that evokes the repentance visible with X-ray in the Madrid painting...
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16th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Chalk

Fine 17th Century Dutch Old Master Oil on Wood Panel Ester before Ahasuerus
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Ester before Ahasuerus Dutch School, 17th century circle of Rembrandt oil painting on wooden panel, unframed panel: 28 x 20 inches provenance: private collection, London condition: very good and sound condition for its age though there are old panel splits evident and minor, but stable, paint loss in those areas, as shown in the photos. The subject of ‘Ester before Ahasuerus’ was narrated by the Bible’s Book of Ester (V: 2-34). Here, the Persian King...
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17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil

PRIVATE READINGS - Angelo Granati Italian Figurative Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
Private readings - Angelo Granati Italia 2013 This is his reinterpretation of a greatest old master painting "Comparisions"by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. ...
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2010s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Bronze

PERSEO AND ANDROMEDA- In the Manner of A.R. Mengs- Italy- Figurative Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
Perseo and Andromeda - Oil on canvas cm.120x80, Eugenio De Blasi, Italy, 2005. Gold gilded wooden frame available on request This is his reinterpretation of a large ancient painting...
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Early 2000s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

PORTRAIT OF A GENTLMEN - French School -Portrait Italian Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
Portrait of a Gentlemen - Oval oil on canvas cm.50x40, Italia, 2006 Eugenio De Blasi Wooden frame available on request The portrait of Eugenio De Blasi is inspired by one of the many portraits painted by Guillam Francois Colson, a French historian painter, who painted portraits of families...
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Early 2000s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Large Classical Oil Painting Figures Animals in Arcadiane Landscape, framed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Classical Landscape Continental School, late 20th century signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 34 x 43 inches canvas: 27 x 34 inches provenance: fr...
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20th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Landscape with Gentleman on Horseback and Peasant Woman Receiving Alms
By Philips Wouwerman
Located in Stockholm, SE
Workshop / Circle of Philips Wouwerman (1619-1668) Landscape with Gentleman on Horseback and Peasant Woman Receiving Alms oil on oak panel 12.40 x 14.17 inches (31.5 x 36 cm) wit...
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17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oak, Oil, Wood Panel

17th century Flemish Italian Old Master - The baptism of Christ - Religious
Located in Antwerp, BE
17th century Flemish old Master painting The present painting is truly a little jewel with its vibrant colours and skilful brushwork. It depicts the Baptism of Christ, a depiction of a tale filled with hope and positivity, it is a very fine example of Malo's talent. We would like to thank Anna Orlando for her assistance in cataloguing this painting. A copy of her entry on this painting will be given to the buyer. She writes about the present painting: The painting illustrated here, unpublished, refers to Vincenzo (Vincent) Malò, a Flemish artist active in Italy and in particular in Genoa in the first half of the seventeenth century, by now well known. The critics who started studying him in the sixties of the last century recognized the initial confusion of our painter with Vincenzo Alemanno (1595-1675); many documents subsequently traced both in the Genoese and Roman archives have partially specified his biographical details, but certainly his identity. Son of a certain Nicola, Vincent trained in Antwerp with David Teniers the Elder and then with Rubens, he was intermittently enrolled in the painters' guild, between 1623 and 1634. It is unlikely that he first arrived in Genoa in 1625 , when the city was at war against the Savoys, and it is entirely probable that his stay in Italy fell between 1634 and the year of his death, documented in Rome in 1644. It were about ten fertile years, also thanks to the lessons from Rubens who had taught him to paint speedily...
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17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

19th Century Continental Oil Painting City River Busy Shipping Scene framed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
European School, 19th century View of boats on water and buildings oil on board, framed framed: 16 x 22 inches board: 11.5 x 17.5 inches private collecti...
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Mid-19th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil

CHERUBIM WITH FLOWERS- Italian School - Italian Figurative Oil painting
Located in Napoli, IT
Cherubim with flowers - Oil on canvas cm.80x100 by Giulio Di Sotto, Italy, 2002. Gold leaf gilded wooden frame available on request This wonderful oil on canvas represents two putti...
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Early 2000s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Fine 18th Century Italianate Landscape Garden Classical Ornaments and Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Italianate landscape garden with classical ornament, including Giambologna's Sabine women and a classical urn, view to a bay beyond Coplestone War...
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Mid-18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Landscape With Pan and Syrinx, Flemish School From the 1600s, Oil on Copper
Located in Stockholm, SE
Flemish School, 1600s Landscape With Pan and Syrinx painted around the 1600s oil on copper 19 x 23.5 cm frame 29 x 34 cm Hand-made oak frame by Swedish frame maker Christer Björkma...
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17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Copper

Enormous French Oil Painting King Louis XIV of France on Horseback
By Pierre Mignard
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French School, after Pierre Mignard Louis XIV on Horseback oil on canvas, unframed painting: 60 x 41 inches provenance: private collection, UK The paint...
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20th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Lamentation of Christ oil on paper laid on canvas
By Annibale Carracci
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The composition repeats that of a large altarpiece designed by Annibale Carracci for the church of San Francesco a Ripa, Rome (now in the Louvre, Par...
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Early 17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Canvas, Oil

Answer Within
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gallery)
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21st Century and Contemporary Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Circumcision Christ Lairesse Flemish Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17th Century
By Gérard de Lairesse (Liège 1641 - Amsterdam 1711)
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Gérard de Lairesse (Liège 1641 - Amsterdam 1711), attributed Circumcision of Christ Oil on canvas, 120 x 102 cm., In frame 138 x 119 cm. The p...
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17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Adriaen van Ostade (follower of) - A Woman Dancing to the Music from a Violin
Located in Stockholm, SE
Adriaen van Ostade (follower of) A Women Dancing to the Music from a Violin oil on oak panel panel size 10.23 x 15.35 inches (26 x 39 cm) frame 15.74 x 21.25 inches (40 x 54 cm) f...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Mary Magdalene - Faith transforms inner into outer beauty and conquers death -
Located in Berlin, DE
Balthasar Denner (1685 Hamburg - 1749 Rostock). Mary Magdalene. Oil on copper, 37 × 32 cm (visible size), 45 x 40 cm (frame), signed and indistinctly dated "Denner 17(...)" at centre...
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1720s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Copper

18th century English scene of a groom with a horse in a landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful 18th century English gouache on paper of a 18th century English scene of a groom with a horse in a landscape. One of a set of five all framed in Hogarth frames. L.Green ...
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1780s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Fine 17th Century Italian Old Master Oil Painting Biblical Lady Holding Jug
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Italian School, 17th century Title: Two figures in an interior, one holding an urn or jug. Possibly a Biblical narrative subject. Medium: oil painting on canvas, u...
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17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil

COUNTRY SCENE -Italian School Landescape Rural- Italian Oil on canvas Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
Country scene - Pietro Colonna Italia 2008 - Oil on board cm. 30x40 Gold gilded wooden frame available on request In this wonderful oil on panel the painter portrays some washerwomen as they are doing their work on the banks of a watercourse. In the background a rural landscape. The painting inspires...
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Early 2000s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Mary & Jesus, 18th Century French Old Master oil painting on canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 18th century Title: Mary and Jesus Medium: oil on canvas, framed Framed: 17 x 14.5 inches Canvas: 16 x 12.75 inches Provenance: private collection...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Fine Antique Italian Oil Cannaregio Canal Venice Busy Figurative Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
View on the Cannaregio Canal, Venice Italian School, 19th century, after Francesco Guardi, Italian 1712-1793 oil on panel Painting: 8 x 10 inches condition: overall very sound, with ...
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19th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil

ALLEGORICAL SCENE - Giovanni Faliero - Italy Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
Allegorical Scene - Giovanni Faliero Italia 2009 - Oil on canvas cm. 90x110. Gold leaf gilded wooden frame available on request This beautiful oil on canvas is the personal reinterpretation of the magnificent painting “Bacchant playing the Cymbals” by Jean-Simon Berthélemy, a French painter of the 18th century. Here we admire a mythological scene showing a naked bacchant playing cymbals next to a wooded stream, with a small sleeping faun...
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Early 2000s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

French Old Master oil painting of 3 figures releasing a dove
By Jean-Antoine Watteau
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Circle of Jean-Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721) Freeing a dove Oil on canvas 27.3/4 x 38.1/8 in. (70 x 96.8 cm.) Possible repair to upper right. In overall good order for the age...
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17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

COUNTRY SCENE -Neapolitan School - Italian Oil on canvas Painting.
Located in Napoli, IT
Country scene - Pietro Colonna Italia 2008 - Oil on board cm. 30x40 Gold gilded wooden frame available on request
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Early 2000s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Antique Spanish Old Master Oil on Wood Panel, Head Portrait of Christ
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: 18/19th Century Spanish School Title :Head study of Christ Medium: oil painting on wood panel, period gilt framed panel : 6 x 5 inches Provenance: private collect...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Costume of an envoy of Venice, a drawing by Francesco Galimberti (1755 - 1803)
Located in PARIS, FR
We thank Mrs. Bożena Anna Kowalczyk who suggested the attribution to Francesco Galimberti based on a photograph of the artwork. This engaging drawing, finely executed in black and red chalks, depicts a Venetian diplomat in his 'new clothes...
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1780s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Chalk

Martyrdom of Saint Stephen- Painting attr. to Vincent Adriaenssen- 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape with martyrdom of Saint Stephen is an old master artwork realized in 17th century. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Includes coeval gilded frame cm. 148x196. The artwork is attributed to Vincent Adriaenssen called il Manciola (Antwerp, 1595 - Roma, 1675) Among the painters who worked in the first half of the seventeenth century it is possible to indicate only the Neapolitan Scipione Compagno (1624-1680) as the author of scenes of martyrs set within a landscape or a view such as, for example, the Martyrdom of Saint Stefano recently hesitated at the Ansorena in Madrid on June 16, 2021. It should be noted, however, that the landscape represented in the painting examined here, characterized by luxuriant vegetation, meticulously represented "in the Flemish style", shows differences with the typical settings of the paintings di Compagno, characterized above all by urban views, visionary architectures or rather arid vegetation. Even the refined figures, so elongated and lanky, represented in our painting, in particular the group of knights in the foreground on the right, are not reflected in the production of the Neapolitan painter. These elements, to which we add the depiction of the Eternal Father amidst the clouds and the detail of the dog in profile in the foreground, instead recall a painter mainly known as a battle soldier, but who was also the author of many works depicting episodes from ancient Rome set within luxuriant landscapes, or rather Vincent Adriaenssen known as Manciola, a painter from Antwerp whose figure has been shed light thanks to recent studies. The group of horsemen represented to the right of the examined painting is, in fact, comparable with other groups on horseback present in numerous works by Manciola such as, for example, in the Triumph of Caesar (Rome, Babuino, 23-03-2010; formerly Florence, Collection Privata, 2006), while similar elongated and somewhat lanky figures, dressed in red, yellow, blue and white, can be found in the three paintings conserved at the Cassa di Risparmio di Pesaro, which in the past were erroneously attributed to the Umbrian painter Francesco Allegrini...
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17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil

French Old Master The Garden of Gethsemane Unusual Shape Panel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 18th century Title: The Garden of Gethsemane Medium: oil painting on wooden panel, unframed. painting: measurem...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Fine 1800's Italian Tondo Oil Head & Shoulders Portrait of Man with Beard & Hat
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait Of A Man,head and shoulders in profile by Italian School, early 19th century oil painting on papier mache forming the lid of a snuffbox, stuck down on panel, tondo framed: ...
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Early 19th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Virgin and Child, a paiting by David Teniers the Younger after Palma Vecchio
Located in PARIS, FR
Provenance: Dukes of Marlborough Collection, Blenheim Palace until its sale at Christie's London on 26 July 1886 (lot 172) English private collection until its sale at Christie's London on 11 December 1992 (lot 363) Erna Weidinger Collection (1923 - 2021) - Austria Literature : Georg Scharf - A list of the pictures in Blenheim Palace - Catalogue raisonné Part 2 - London 1862 (page 166 - number 199 "after Palma Giovane") Charles Davies...
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1750s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oak, Oil

San Francesco, Santa Caterina d’Alessandria, Sant’Agostino e San Nicola
Located in Balerna, TI
Luca Signorelli (Cortona 1445 - 1523). € 40,000 San Francesco, Santa Caterina d’Alessandria, Sant'Agostino and San Nicola da Tolentino Oil on panel, 1...
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15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Huge Antique English Aristocratic Portrait of Baronet, Fine Ancestral Portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English School, 18th/ 19th century Portrait of Sir Wolstan Dixie, 4th Baronet *see notes below on sitter oil painting on canvas, unframed 50 x 40 inches condition: the painting is in very satisfactory condition without any damage, tears or punctures to the canvas. It is very original and would benefit from a clean ideally, slight scuffing to the edges of canvas. provenance: private collection, Leicestershire, England * The sitter is Sir Wolstan Dixie (4th Baronet, born 1700). Although the family came from a yeoman family of Huntingdonshire, his ancestor, also Sir Wolstan, made a fortune in the City as a merchant, and served as Lord Mayor of London in 1585-6, Sir Wolstan (the 1st Baronet) acquired the manor of Market Bosworth in west Leicestershire and in 1592, having no children...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

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...
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1810s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

COUNTRY SCENE- Neapolitan School Italian Figurative Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
COUNTRY SCENE - Oil on canvas cm.30x24 by Jean Philipe Moreno, Italy 2002. Frame available on request from our workshop. The painting by Jean Philipe Moreno depicts a bucolic scene. Moreno is inspired by the paintings of the Neapolitan School of the 1800s and in particular by the Neapolitan painter Filippo Palizzi...
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2010s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

HUGE 17thC ITALIAN OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING - KING & COURT FIGURES ROMAN BUILDING
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Italian School, 17th century. Title: A King and Queen before court figures, amidst a classical landscape with Roman columns. Medium: oil painting on canvas, framed ...
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17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Late 18th century Antique English Moonlight over a lake and church landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
Henry Pether, late 18th-century Moonlight lake Landscape. Born into a family of artists, Henry was the son of Abraham Pether (1756-1812), a talented la...
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1790s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Turn of the 20th Century French tryptic depicting the Annunciation with 2 saints
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A. Lion (French, c. 1900) A tryptic depicting the Annunciation flanked by two Saints Signed “A. LION” (to the left of Mary) Oil on board Framed dimensions 23. ½ x 37. ½ in. (60 x 95...
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19th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Very Large Antique French Classical Romantic Oil Painting Ancient Ruin Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 19th century Title: Classical Landscape with figures amongst ancient ruins. Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed. canvas: 24.5 x 36 inches P...
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19th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Testa di Santo Martire
Located in Balerna, TI
Sebastàn de Llanos Valdès (circa 1605-1677) testa di santo martire Olio su tela, cm 50,5x72,5 Non vi sono dubbi in merito all’autografia del dipinto che spetta a Sebastian de Llanos y Valdes (1616-1677), come testimonia l’ iscrizione frammentaria posta nel margine inferiore destro della composizione. Il pittore spagnolo fu allievo di Herrera il Vecchio (1576-1656), poliedrico artista suo conterraneo, abile oltre che nel dipingere anche nella lavorazione del bronzo e nel campo della medaglistica. Nella famosa bottega dell’ Herrera, cui viene attribuito il ruolo di fondatore della famosa Scuola di Siviglia, gravitarono anche il tredicenne Velasquez, che vi rimase per un intero ano, e Ignacio de Riarte. Nel nostro dipinto raffigurante la testa...
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17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of Lady Caroline Price
Located in Miami, FL
DESCRIPTION: Perhaps the best Romney in private hands. If Vogue Magazine existed in the late 18th century, this image of Lady Caroline Price would be ...
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1970s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Fine 18th Century English Aristocratic Portrait of a Lady Oval Canvas Gilt Frame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: English School, circa 1740's Title: Portrait of a Lady, traditionally identified as 'Anne of Chesterfield'. Medium: oil painting on canvas, framed Size: painting: ...
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Three studies executed in the Pitti Palace in 1761 by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Located in PARIS, FR
This brilliant study sheet, of which we present here a counterproof, is a souvenir of Fragonard's return journey from Italy. Between April and September 1761, he accompanied the abbot of Saint-Non on his way back to France. Three studies after the masters taken from the Pitti Palace’s gallery in Florence are gathered on this sheet. Although The Ecstasy of Saint Margaret...
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1760s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Carbon Pencil

Early 1800's English Oil Painting Figure in Rural Woodland Landscape, original
By circle of John Constable
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist: English School, early 1800's, circle of John Constable (British 1776-1837) Title: The Woodland Path Medium: oil on canvas, framed Size: 12 x 22 inches Picture: 9 x 18 inches Provence: from a private collection in East Anglia...
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Early 19th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

CAVALRY BATTLE - Antonio Savisio Neapolitan School Italy Oil on canvas Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
Land Battle - Antonio Savisio Italia 2006 - Oil on canvas diam. cm. 30 Gold leaf gilded and laquered wooden frame cm. 47x47 Maestro Antonio Savisio drew inspiration from the masterp...
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Early 2000s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Landscapes Finder (Buscador de paisajes) Figurative painting. Old masters style
Located in Segovia, ES
Landscape Finder. Goyo painted this intriguing painting in 1994, when his inspiration from the old masters was most noticeable. The artist declares: “I feel a powerful attraction to ...
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1990s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Wood Panel, Acrylic

CAVALRY BATTLE- Antonio Savisio - Neapolitan School - Oil on canvas Painting,
Located in Napoli, IT
Land Battle - Antonio Savisio Italia 2006 - Oil on canvas diam. cm. 30 Gold leaf gilded and laquered wooden frame cm. 47x47 Maestro Antonio Savisio drew inspiration from the master...
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Early 2000s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Two military studies, a preparatory red chalk drawing by Jean-Baptiste Pater
By Jean-Baptiste Pater
Located in PARIS, FR
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...
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1720s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Chalk

18th/19th Century French Old Master Oil Christ entering Jerusalem
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
18th/19th Century School 'A scene of Christ entering Jerusalem' Medium: oil on canvas, framed Size of painting: 21.5" x 18.25" inches condition: overa...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil

17th Century English Portrait of Admiral Horatio Nelson's great grandfather
Located in Norwich, GB
A fascinating portrait dating from circa 1695-1700 with wonderful provenance: it belonged to the British industrialist Leonard Pelham Lee (1903–1980) and hung in his manor house in W...
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17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Raquel. Figurative woman's portraits on abstract background.
Located in Segovia, ES
Raquel. Images of woman on abstract background. Mixed media on panel. Measurements: 81 x 65 x 0.5 cm / Framed 103 x 87 x 5 cm In inches: 31.89 x 25.59 x 0.2 " / Framed 40.55 x 34.25 x 1.97 " "Raquel" was painted by Goyo in 1999 ( signature and date in right down corner) using a mixed technique. On abstract background that plays with colors, shapes, and volumes, Goyo portrays a beautiful woman's face with a penetrating gaze. There, almost like a collage, an academic female...
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1990s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Wood Panel, Mixed Media

Old Masters figurative paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

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