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Penitent Mary Magdelane c1750 Oil on Copper

1750

Isidore-Alexandre-Augustin PILS (1815–1875) A bewitching portrait of a young redheaded woman attributed to Isidore Pils. The same sitter appears in another of his other paintings,...

Monogrammed TG, Late 19th Century Symbolist Pre- Raphaelite Oil Painting Luna An intriguing painting displaying imaginative symbolism and referencing the Pre-Raphaelite movement. T...

Circle of Fred MORGAN (1847-1927) c1890 A sensitively painted portrait, possibly a study for a larger work, of a young country girl. Indistinctly signed ** Morgan, possibly Fred. Unfortunately Fred signed in a number of different ways depending on the grandeur of his work. However, a consistent element was the colour, a reddish brown similar to the colour of the signature on this painting. I can offer no provenance with this painting, so I am selling at as circle of Morgan rather than actually by him. “Frederick Morgan ROI was an English painter of portraits, animals, domestic and country scenes. He became known for his idyllic genre scenes of childhood. Morgan was born in London to John Morgan and his wife, Henrietta Hester Clare. His father was a successful genre artist sometimes known as 'Jury Morgan' (after one of his paintings The Gentlemen of the Jury). At the age of 14, he was taken out of school by his father who then tutored him in art. At the age of 16, while still studying with his father, his first picture, The Rehearsal, was exhibited at the Royal Academy, and, after a hiatus of several years, his paintings were shown there regularly. For a while he worked as a portrait artist for an Aylesbury photographer; this training proved to be crucial as it "taught him how to observe closely and to give the greatest attention to detail." Eventually he turned to other subjects for his art, in particular idyllic genre scenes of country life and childhood. For many years, starting in 1874, Thomas Agnew & Sons' purchased all the work he produced. Although an excellent portrait artist, Morgan had problems in depicting pets and barnyard animals - he enlisted the aid of either Arthur John Elsley...

Alexandre-François BONNARDEL (1867-1942) French School Belle Epoque Period Oil Painting c1900 An exquisite painting of a woman, probably the artist’s wife, set amongst the roses in ...

This is a superb Italian Old Master portrait oil painting attributed to circle of Guido Reni. It is a half length portrait of the penitent Mary Magdalene...

Roman School 17th - 18th century Circle of Giovanni Battista Salvi, known as Sassoferrato (Sassoferrato 1609 - Rome 1685) Virgin at Prayer Oil on canvas 48 x 40 cm. Splendid frame ...

The workshop of Guido Reni (Bologna, 1575 - Bologna, 1642) The Virgin at Prayer (or Mater dolorosa) Oil on canvas 77 x 64 cm, framed 97 x 83 cm. The Madonna of our canvas is depict...

Antique Italian painting from the second half of the 18th century. Religious painting depicting the Virgin of Sorrows, of excellent pictorial quality. Oil on canvas framework recentl...