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After Claus Meyer (1856-1919) - 1942 Oil, The Card Game

1942

An intimate genre scene by George Weissbort (1928-2013) depicting two ladies engrossed in a game of cards. Well presented in a painted wooden frame. Signed to the lower right and dat...

A charming 20th century genre scene depicting 17th century merchants discussing tactics around a table. The warm, golden tones and careful attention to period furnishings, including ...

A charming early 19th-century genre scene depicting figures having an altercation in a tavern interior. Unsigned. Presented in a wooden frame with a gilt-painted inner window. On can...

A charming portrait of a smiling gentleman holding a letter. Signed to the upper right. Presented in a gilt frame. On board.

Oil on Canvas. Signed, dated and located (Monaco) lower left. German painter Eduard Huber-Andorf, best known for his still lifes, tried his hand at also with tasty and realistic gen...

James Hardy Jnr British, (1832-1889) Playing Cribbage Oil on panel, signed & dated (18)58 Image size: 11.5 inches x 14.5 inches Size including frame: 20.25 inches x 23.25 inches Provenance: Mr J Taylor Esq; F C Mander, purchased March 1907. A delightful genre painting of a family playing a game of cards by James Hardy Jnr. A group of people are depicted sitting at a table in front of a fireplace in a rustic interior, playing cribbage. As four of the players study their cards, a woman gets up to help another player with their hand. Meanwhile, a tan and white dog watches on with interest. The reverse of this painting includes a handwritten inscription which reads: ‘This painting was purchased by the late Mr Taylor for £40 and bought by me at Public Auction at Addison Hall for £45. March 1907. F. C. Mander’. Further research has discovered that a public auction of the collection of a Mr J Taylor Esq was held by his Executors on Tuesday 5 March 1907 at Addison Hall, Addison Road, Kensington. Details of the sale including a mention of a work on offer by J Hardy, appeared in the Kensington News and West London Times on Friday 1 March 1907. Messrs F C Mander & Co were listed as the auctioneers involved in the sale. Their address at the time was 296, Uxbridge Road, Shepherd’s Bush. James Hardy Jnr was a genre and sporting painter born in Brighton, Sussex in 1832 into a family of artists. He was the son of the portrait and genre painter James Hardy (1801-1879) and his wife Elizabeth (née Vinson). His brothers David Hardy (1838-1870) and Heywood Hardy (1842-1933) and his sister Ada Hardy all became artists. His cousins Frederick Daniel Hardy...

An attractive genre scene oil on panel depicting two German men engaged in conversation about the newspaper by Hedwig Oehring. The shopkeeper on the left appearing to be simply takin...

Émile Renard (French, 1850-1930) A Fine and Charming Oil on Canvas "A Good Poker Hand", depicting a joyous seated man, smoking a pipe, showing his Poker h...