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Christian Andreas Schleisner (1810-1882) - Oil, A Place to Rest

Mid-19th Century

A charming oil study depicting a mother and son resting by a peaceful lake. To the distance the artist depicts a quaint cottage nestled at the base of a mountain. Signed illegibly to...

A charming 19th-century oil after Francis William Topham (1808-1877) depicting mischievous children playing by a bridge. Signed 'J.Goodman' to the stretchers verso. Well presented in...

A charming mid 19th century oil by Henry Watson, after Henry Liverseege (1802-1832). The artwork depicts an encounter between a young boy and a local resident, as the boy attempts to...

This accomplished allegorical scene depicts the story in Anacreon’s Ode where Cupid is captured by the Muses. Entwined in a chain of flowers, the Muses lead cupid to captivity, where...

Hellemans Pierre-Jean Brussels 1787 – 1845 Belgian Painter A Summer Landscape Signature: Attributed to Hellemans Pierre-Jean Medium: Oil on oak panel Dimensions: Image size 62 x 78 cm, frame size 72,50 x 92,50 cm Biography: Hellemans Pierre-Jean was born on November 21, 1787, in Brussels. He was a Belgian pre-romantic painter of landscapes. He was married with his niece, Jeanne Marie-Joséphine Hellemans (1796-1837). She was a painter of still lifes with flowers and fruits. Hellemans studied at the Acade...

Gottfried Seelos, antique oil painting, home of Walther von der Vogelweide. Signed and dated. According to an antique note on the back, the painting come...

This beautiful oil on canvas painting of a Swiss Landscape is circa 1870 and is by the artist Eduard Boehm (1830 - 1890). Austrian landscape pain...

Oil on canvas on board, signed lower left Image size: 12 1/4 x 19 inches (31 x 48.5 cm) Hand made gilt frame Johann Christian Kröner was the son of the decorative painter Johann Kröner (1788–1848) and his wife Clara Regina, née Meyer (1792–1862). Kröner attended high school in his hometown until 1852 and then worked for his brother, who had taken over the paternal painting business , as an apprentice. He also sketched outdoors to capture nature.  It was only from 1861 that he could continue to devote himself to art. He first went to Munich and the artist colony in Brannenburg , where he painted landscapes and got to know local painters, including Carl Irmer , Wilhelm Busch , Julius Rollmann and Louis Hugo Becker . In 1863 he went to Düsseldorf, where he met the landscape painter Louis Hugo Becker, moving in the milieu of the Düsseldorf School. With his artist friends and paint box in hand, they worked from self-study and frequent trips to Upper Bavaria , Thuringia and particularly Westphalia.  Among his circle of friends in Düsseldorf were Gustav Süs, Karl Bertling, Eduard Geselschap, Abert Baur, Eugen Dücker...