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Classical Naturalistic Style Italian Allegory Study

Oil painting of a river landscape with figures in a boat rowing along the foreground. The work is painted on board. It is framed in a decorative frame. Dimensions without frame: H 24 in x W 36 in. Artist Biography: William Joseph Shayer, senior was a self-taught artist, who began by painting decorations on rush-bottom chairs. He moved on to painting carriages in the town of Guildford, after which he started doing heraldic painting...

Abstract Surrealist ink and gouache drawing of a human and deer hybrid head sitting within a jar. The work is signed by the artist in the bottom corner. The work is framed in a silve...

Capriccio painting in a greek or Italian style with women around a river. Capriccio is a fanciful architectural landscape painting. It was popular in Italy in the 18th Century. Most ...

Early still-life painting with statues and a painting of a reclining nude. The work is signed and dated by Dr. Joesph Klien from Atlanta, Georga in 1944. The work is framed in a Newcomb Macklin frame...

Oil on copper. Flemish school of the seventeenth century. The painting, attributed by oral tradition to Frans Francken the younger (1581 -1642), depicts a miraculous healing perform...

Oil on Canvas. The large painting depicts the famous mythological episode of the Judgement of Paris, the event that helped trigger the Trojan War. Paris, a Trojan prince, was called ...

Oil painting on canvas. Mid 19th century. The large scene tells an unidentified historical episode, set in the Renaissance period, in which an archbishop listens to the plea of a you...

Oil painting on canvas. French school of the seventeenth century. The scene, set at night in the garden of a villa, of which you can glimpse the ornate facade on the right and in which the fountain gushing with cherubs stands out, under a dark sky and further obscured by heavy clouds, proposes two figures who entertain each other in conversation : an elderly modestly dressed is sternly admonishing a seated young man, richly dressed, who seems instead to make the gesture of mea culpa with his hand. The physiognomy and the gestures of the two characters, together with the style of the clothes, would refer to the philosopher Aristotle who was called to the court of Macedon to be the tutor...