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Hide n seek Home Scene w Grandma Russian early 20th Century Oil Genre Painting
Hide n seek Home Scene w Grandma Russian early 20th Century Oil Genre Painting

Hide n seek Home Scene w Grandma Russian early 20th Century Oil Genre Painting

Located in Stockholm, SE

Signed on the bottom right is "J. Braze", Osip Emmanuilovich Braz (1873 - 1936), renowned as a Russian-Jewish realist painter. As the scene unfolds on the canvas, we witness the gran...

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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Cotton Canvas, Oil

Original Oil Painting by K. Rasset  Seascape Harbor Scene  Vintage Maritime Ar
Original Oil Painting by K. Rasset  Seascape Harbor Scene  Vintage Maritime Ar

Original Oil Painting by K. Rasset Seascape Harbor Scene Vintage Maritime Ar

Located in Palm Coast, FL

This original oil painting on canvas by artist K. Rasset captures a serene and atmospheric harbor scene. Two docked fishing vessels rest against a quiet pier under a soft gray sky, w...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Hemerocallis I" (2022) by Sybiline, Oil Painting, Pink Day Lily
"Hemerocallis I" (2022) by Sybiline, Oil Painting, Pink Day Lily

"Hemerocallis I" (2022) by Sybiline, Oil Painting, Pink Day Lily

Located in Denver, CO

Sybiline's (CAN based) "Hemerocallis I" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a portrait of a pink day lily. About the Artist: Sybiline is a Canadian artist based in Q...

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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

"Let's Try This Water Together" (2024) By Nadezda, Original Oil Painting
"Let's Try This Water Together" (2024) By Nadezda, Original Oil Painting

"Let's Try This Water Together" (2024) By Nadezda, Original Oil Painting

Located in Denver, CO

Nadezda's beautiful new oil on panel painting "Let's Try This Water Together" (2024) is a surrealist portrait of three small creatures in a dark forest. Nadezda is a painter, sculpt...

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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

New England Town Scene Oil Painting by listed artist Emile Gruppe (1896-1978)
New England Town Scene Oil Painting by listed artist Emile Gruppe (1896-1978)

New England Town Scene Oil Painting by listed artist Emile Gruppe (1896-1978)

Located in Baltimore, MD

Emile Albert Gruppe was a very well known Cape Ann, Massachusetts painter who founded his own Gruppe Summer School in 1942. He was born in Rochester, NY in 1896 and studied at the A...

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1930s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Hidden Portraits XXI
Hidden Portraits XXI

Hidden Portraits XXI

Located in London, GB

'Hidden Portraits XXI', acrylic on canvas mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an intermediary of an ageing ...

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1980s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Board

Antique American Panoramic Cloudscape Cows Grazing Bucolic Landscape Painting
Antique American Panoramic Cloudscape Cows Grazing Bucolic Landscape Painting

Antique American Panoramic Cloudscape Cows Grazing Bucolic Landscape Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Antique impressionist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a giltwood molding. Excellent condition, ready...

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1910s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Vintage American Abstract Expressionist Framed Modernist MCM Oil Painting
Vintage American Abstract Expressionist Framed Modernist MCM Oil Painting

Vintage American Abstract Expressionist Framed Modernist MCM Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring: 24 by 31 inches overall, and 18 by 26 painting alone. In excellent original condition. Nicely fram...

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1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Orientalist Town View Finely Painted Important Framed Original Camel Painting
Orientalist Town View Finely Painted Important Framed Original Camel Painting

Orientalist Town View Finely Painted Important Framed Original Camel Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage orientalist oil painting of a hill town landscape. Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Framed. Measuring: 31 by 27 inches overall, and 25 by 21.5 painting alone. Excellent condition, ...

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1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

American Impressionist Oil on Canvas Painting "California Highlands" Los Angeles
American Impressionist Oil on Canvas Painting "California Highlands" Los Angeles

American Impressionist Oil on Canvas Painting "California Highlands" Los Angeles

By Charles Smith

Located in Portland, OR

A very attractive California Impressionist oil on canvas painting by Charles L. A. Smith, "California Highlands", dated 1930. This very attractive large painting by one of the foremo...

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1930s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Dandelion Wish - Flower Floral Still Life Original Painting
Dandelion Wish - Flower Floral Still Life Original Painting

Dandelion Wish - Flower Floral Still Life Original Painting

By Kathleen Keifer

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Kathleen Keifer is a California-based internationally collected artist. She is a leading force of the New California Realism. Kathleen brings a fresh, clean perspective to Contempora...

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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Triptych " Blåvand" Girls and sea ." Original impressionistic painting.
"Triptych " Blåvand" Girls and sea ." Original impressionistic painting.

"Triptych " Blåvand" Girls and sea ." Original impressionistic painting.

Located in Oslo, NO

I channeled my love for the ocean's raw beauty and the innocence of youth into this textured acrylic piece. It captures the mesmerizing dance between light and water, framed by the t...

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2010s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Exceptional and rare depiction of the Black Madonna as Sancta Maria de Pace
Exceptional and rare depiction of the Black Madonna as Sancta Maria de Pace

Exceptional and rare depiction of the Black Madonna as Sancta Maria de Pace

Located in DEVENTER, NL

Sancta Maria de Pace Oil on canvas, marouflaged on panel Probably Germany, 18th century Dimensions: approx. 46 × 35 cm (exclusief. frame) Provenance: Private collection, South German...

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18th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Sweet Grass-original modern abstract floral oil painting - contemporary Art
Sweet Grass-original modern abstract floral oil painting - contemporary Art

Sweet Grass-original modern abstract floral oil painting - contemporary Art

By Antoinette Ferwerda

Located in London, Chelsea

We offer complimentary worldwide shipping and cover all tariffs and import taxes for this artwork. This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet C...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Copper

"Paper Making" WPA Industrial Mid-Century American Scene Social Realism Workers
"Paper Making" WPA Industrial Mid-Century American Scene Social Realism Workers

"Paper Making" WPA Industrial Mid-Century American Scene Social Realism Workers

Located in New York, NY

"Paper Making" WPA Industrial Mid-Century American Scene Social Realism Workers Douglas Crockwell (1904-1968) "Paper Making" 19 x 39 inches Oil on board, c. 1936 Signed verso Framed: 28 x 47 Provenance: Estate of the Artist BIO Spencer Douglass Crockwell was born into a comfortable middle class household on April 29, 1904 in Columbus, Ohio. His father, Charles Roland Crockwell, was a mining engineer; his mother, Cora, was the daughter of an Iowa attorney. He became a commercial artist and experimental filmmaker who spent a good part of his career creating illustrations and advertisements for the Saturday Evening Post. In 1907 the Crockwell family moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he graduated from high school and then attended from Washington University. Initially he studied engineering, but soon switched to business. While still an undergraduate, Crockwell took courses at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts and quickly realized that he wanted to be an artist. After graduating from Washington University in 1926, Crockwell continued to study at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts until 1929. The following year he relocated to Chicago and continued his studies at the American Academy of Art. In 1930 and 1931 he studied in Europe on a Traveling Fellowship. In 1932 Douglass Crockwell moved to Glens Falls, New York, which was to be his home for the remainder of his life. The following year he married Margaret Braman. They had three children, a son Douglass and two daughters, Johanna and Margaret. During the depression he created murals and posters for the Works Progress Administration including Post Office murals in White River junction, Vermont; Endicott, New York; and Macon, Mississippi. In 1934 he painted Paper Workers, Finch Pruyn & Co. (the leading Glens Falls, New York company) for the WPA. In the 1930s Crockwell developed an interest in experimental animated films that occupied him for the rest of his life. In 1936 and 1937, he collaborated with David Smith, a sculptor, to create surrealist films. Because of his interest in experimental films, his output of paintings was limited to just twenty to forty illustrations a year during this time. Crockwell painted his first of many Saturday Evening Post cover in 1933. He also worked for Life, Look, and Esquire, and numerous national advertisers including Friskies dog food, Welch’s Grape Juice, Republic Steel...

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1930s American Modern Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Champ de ble - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Marcel Dyf
Champ de ble - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Marcel Dyf

Champ de ble - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Marcel Dyf

By Marcel Dyf

Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Signed oil on canvas landscape circa 1960 by French post impressionist painter Marcel Dyf. The work depicts a golden wheat field, contrasted against dark hills in the distance. Sign...

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1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"The Child Star" Mid Century Portrait of a Boy with Brown Eyes Oil on Canvas
"The Child Star" Mid Century Portrait of a Boy with Brown Eyes Oil on Canvas

"The Child Star" Mid Century Portrait of a Boy with Brown Eyes Oil on Canvas

By William Robert Shulgold

Located in Soquel, CA

"The Child Star" Mid Century Portrait of a Boy with Brown Eyes Oil on Canvas Stately portrait of a boy by William Robert Shulgold (Russian-American, 1897-1989). The subject is looki...

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1950s American Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Lamb - Framed 20th Century Oil, Still Life with Cider Apples
Lamb - Framed 20th Century Oil, Still Life with Cider Apples

Lamb - Framed 20th Century Oil, Still Life with Cider Apples

Located in Corsham, GB

A colourful still life of apples and bottles on a ledge. Presented in a gilt-effect frame with bead course to the inner window and vine decoration to the outer rail. Signed to the lo...

Category

20th Century Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Tranquil Tides in Daylight

Tranquil Tides in Daylight

Located in Santa Fe, NM

Lynn Sanders is an artist excited by beauty: architecture, foliage, landscapes, seascapes, interiors. She finds palettes and shapes in her environment and propels them into her work,...

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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Acrylic

Contemporary Figurative Expressionist Portrait of a Child with Toy Rabbit Framed
Contemporary Figurative Expressionist Portrait of a Child with Toy Rabbit Framed

Contemporary Figurative Expressionist Portrait of a Child with Toy Rabbit Framed

By Inés Silvalde

Located in FISTERRA, ES

Contemporary child portrait oil painting on canvas depicting a boy holding an oversized stuffed rabbit within a psychologically charged domestic scene. This vertical oil on canvas p...

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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Nocturne, The River Thames, London'. oil c1950's
'Nocturne, The River Thames, London'. oil c1950's

'Nocturne, The River Thames, London'. oil c1950's

Located in Frome, Somerset

Nocturne, The River Thames, London. Oil on board circa 1950's by Keith Parsons (1919-1988) British. painting 42cmx58cm fine antiques frame 68cmx83cm Night view with a full moon hanging over the River Thames in central London...

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1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Fine Scottish Highlands Oil Painting, Majestic Highland Loch Scene, signed oil
Fine Scottish Highlands Oil Painting, Majestic Highland Loch Scene, signed oil

Fine Scottish Highlands Oil Painting, Majestic Highland Loch Scene, signed oil

By Douglas Falconer

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Artist/ School: signed by Douglas Falconer (British, 1913-2004) Title: North Scotland Medium: oil on board, framed and inscribed verso Framed: 14 x 20 inches Board: 12 x 18 inches...

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Mid-20th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mader - 19th Century Oil, Portrait of a Gentleman in Profile
Mader - 19th Century Oil, Portrait of a Gentleman in Profile

Mader - 19th Century Oil, Portrait of a Gentleman in Profile

Located in Corsham, GB

A skilfully executed nineteenth century portrait of a bearded man in profile. Well presented in a gilt frame. Signed to the lower left. Faintly monogrammed to the upper left. On canv...

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19th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Highland Cattle at Dusk Antique Scottish Loch & Mountains Signed Oil Painting
Highland Cattle at Dusk Antique Scottish Loch & Mountains Signed Oil Painting

Highland Cattle at Dusk Antique Scottish Loch & Mountains Signed Oil Painting

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Highland Cattle at Dusk by WILLIAM LANGLEY (1852-1922 signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 17 x 21 inches canvas: 12.5 x 16.5 inches Provenance: Private collection, previously exhibi...

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Late 19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

“Last Summer”
“Last Summer”

“Last Summer”

Located in Warren, NJ

Marko Mavrovich Original Painting On Canvas “last Summer”. In good condition measures 40x35

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Portrait of a Lady
Portrait of a Lady

Portrait of a Lady

By Giovanni Boldini

Located in Padova, IT

GIOVANNI BOLDINI (FERRARA 1842–1931 PARIS) Profilo di Giovane Seduta 1915 circa Expertise by Prof. Dini ( see photo attached) oil on panel cm 35 x 26,8 not signed

Category

1910s Italian School Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil Crayon, Wood Panel

Abstract Floral Still Life, 20th Century Cleveland School Artist
Abstract Floral Still Life, 20th Century Cleveland School Artist

Abstract Floral Still Life, 20th Century Cleveland School Artist

By August Biehle

Located in Beachwood, OH

August Frederick Biehle (American, 1885-1979) Abstract Floral Still Life Watercolor and pencil on paper Signed lower right 24 x 19 inches 29.5 x 24.5 inches, framed A versatile pain...

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Mid-20th Century American Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Pencil

Harbour with mountainous  landscape
Harbour with mountainous  landscape

Harbour with mountainous landscape

Located in Douglas, Isle of Man

In the manner of Francis Hodgkins 1869 - 1947, was a New Zealand born painter and teacher of art. She was a strong colorist of art and painted in a somewhat abstract simple manner th...

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20th Century Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Martin Petersen Children at a Pond
Martin Petersen Children at a Pond

Martin Petersen Children at a Pond

Located in San Francisco, CA

Martin Petersen: 1867-1956. Listed Danish American artist who just had an Auction sale this past January for over $2000. I feel that that painting which was a little smaller is not n...

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1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Bassin des Tuilleries and the Louvre, Paris, " Jules Herve, French Impressionism
"Bassin des Tuilleries and the Louvre, Paris, " Jules Herve, French Impressionism

"Bassin des Tuilleries and the Louvre, Paris, " Jules Herve, French Impressionism

By Jules René Hervé

Located in New York, NY

Jules Herve (French, 1887 - 1981) Bassin des Tuilleries and the Louvre, Paris, n.d. Oil on canvas 18 1/2 x 21 3/4 inches Signed lower left; signed on the reverse Provenance: Dominio...

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20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

NYC Oil Painting Michael Budden Nocturne Street Scene "Night Life" Am. Flag
NYC Oil Painting Michael Budden Nocturne Street Scene "Night Life" Am. Flag

NYC Oil Painting Michael Budden Nocturne Street Scene "Night Life" Am. Flag

By Michael Budden

Located in Chesterfield, NJ

Night Life, NYC oil/panel 14 x 11 image size 19.5 x 16.5 framed An oil painting on canvas panel by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showcases the bustling "Night...

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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Abundance of Summer - Abstract Colorful Floral Still Life Mixed Media Artwork
Abundance of Summer - Abstract Colorful Floral Still Life Mixed Media Artwork

Abundance of Summer - Abstract Colorful Floral Still Life Mixed Media Artwork

By Kellie Newsome

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Dynamic and abstracted still-life artworks are the specialty of Georgia-based artist Kellie Newsome. Her work is characterized by a loose and expressive style emphasizing line struct...

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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Color Pencil

19th century French painters oil View of Venice from a canal
19th century French painters oil View of Venice from a canal

19th century French painters oil View of Venice from a canal

Located in Woodbury, CT

Edouard Jacques Dufeu, born in Marseille on March 27, 1836, and died in Grasse on December 1, 1900, is a French painter and engraver.Hailing from a family originally from Egypt, Dufe...

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1880s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Georges Eugene Delhomme (1904-1989) - Mid 20th Century Oil, Study of The Catch
Georges Eugene Delhomme (1904-1989) - Mid 20th Century Oil, Study of The Catch

Georges Eugene Delhomme (1904-1989) - Mid 20th Century Oil, Study of The Catch

Located in Corsham, GB

This still life painting captures freshly caught fish arranged in a loose, organic composition on a wooden surface. The artist's brushwork brings out the shimmering textures and cool...

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20th Century Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Hunt Slonem "Subtle Nature" Bunny
Hunt Slonem "Subtle Nature" Bunny

Hunt Slonem "Subtle Nature" Bunny

By Hunt Slonem

Located in Boston, MA

Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Subtle Nature Date: 2025 Medium: Oil on wood Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8" Framed Dimensions: 14.5" x 12.5" Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso Ed...

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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Reflections of the Jungle /// Big Cat Tiger India Asia Wildlife Animal Painting
Reflections of the Jungle /// Big Cat Tiger India Asia Wildlife Animal Painting

Reflections of the Jungle /// Big Cat Tiger India Asia Wildlife Animal Painting

By Adolf Sehring

Located in Saint Augustine, FL

Artist: Adolf Sehring (Russian/German-American, 1930-2015) Title: "Reflections of the Jungle" Series: Wildlife *Signed by Sehring lower right Circa: 1995 Medium: Original Oil Paintin...

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1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Oil

Country Cottage
Country Cottage

Country Cottage

By Abraham Hulk the Younger

Located in Hillsborough, NC

Late 19th/early 20th century oil on canvas painting in the manner of Abraham Hulk the Younger (1851-1922), and George Vincent (1796-1832). These artists painted in the Dutch style, though both are British. Each has had experience with Dutch masters that influence their work. George Vincent’s work is perhaps even closer to this than Hulk’s. Vincent paints the trees and skies with the warm hues of light infused on the work. Here, the sky has blue but also a khaki or tan shade, roughed into the blue and white. It is an unusual color in skies, yet Vincent shows us the light through clouds casting a darker shade. The trees are varied greens but also have yellowed leaves, as in autumn. Presented in a period decorative gilt frame, the painting is of a cottage in a woodland with cattle by a pond, a little black dog and man and a woman standing by. In the distance is a glimpse of a river and grasses, framed by trees and an overcast sky. Hulk is renowned for his treatment of the changing season from summer to autumn, and the golden leaves and fading greens in this painting suggest this changing time of year. Hulk is the son of a well known Dutch maritime...

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Late 19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Spring Bouquet, Mid Century Floral Still-Life
Spring Bouquet, Mid Century Floral Still-Life

Spring Bouquet, Mid Century Floral Still-Life

By Helen Gapen Oehler

Located in Soquel, CA

A lush spring bouquet bursts forth with a bounty of beautiful, vibrant flowers in bloom in this mid century floral still-life by Helen Gapen Oehler (American, 1893-1979). Signed "Helen Gapen Oehler S.W.A" (Society of Western Artists) lower right. Displayed in a wood frame painted light peach with gold trim. Canvas size: 18"H x 14"W. Best known for her landscapes, seascapes, views of nature as well as paintings of scenes from global travel, Oehler is considered a progressive impressionist. She painted in the world, Midwest and eastern coast, some California. Helen Gapen Oehler was born in 1893 in Ottawa Illinois. She was bright and at an early began to paint. Helen Oehler attended and graduated from the University of Illinois in art and teaching and was in the Chi Omega sorority...

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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Framed Pointillist Oil Painting Of The River Eure In The Old Quarter Of Chartres
Framed Pointillist Oil Painting Of The River Eure In The Old Quarter Of Chartres

Framed Pointillist Oil Painting Of The River Eure In The Old Quarter Of Chartres

Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset

Jean Vollet. French ( b.1935 - d.2015 ). The River Eure, The Old Quarter Of Chartres. Oil On Canvas. Signed Lower Right. Image size 17.5 inches x 25 inches ( 44.5cm x 63.5cm ). Frame...

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Mid-20th Century Pointillist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique Scottish Highlands Oil Painting Misty River Landscape Perthshire
Antique Scottish Highlands Oil Painting Misty River Landscape Perthshire

Antique Scottish Highlands Oil Painting Misty River Landscape Perthshire

By Francis E. Jamieson

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

"Ballinluig" by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950) signed lower corner inscribed verso oil painting on canvas, framed canvas: 16 x 24 inches frame: 18.5 x 26.5 inches Fine quality...

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Early 20th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Hunt Slonem "4 Square" Black and Pink Bunnies
Hunt Slonem "4 Square" Black and Pink Bunnies

Hunt Slonem "4 Square" Black and Pink Bunnies

By Hunt Slonem

Located in Houston, TX

Hunt Slonem "4 Square" Black and Pink Bunnies Four rabbits gestured in black on a pink background in a vintage frame Unframed: 8 x 6 inches Framed: 12 x 10 inches *Painting is frame...

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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Double portrait of a brother and sister, c. 1830s
Double portrait of a brother and sister, c. 1830s

Double portrait of a brother and sister, c. 1830s

By Margaret Sarah Carpenter

Located in Henley-on-Thames, England

Margaret Sarah Carpenter (Salisbury 1793-1872 London) Double portrait of a brother and sister, formerly identified as the Poulett children, c. 1830s Half-length, within a park landscape Oil on canvas Inscribed to the stretcher frame verso, ‘Ms Carpenter’ 91.5 x 71.6 cm.; (within frame) 104.2 x 84 cm. (Unsigned) Provenance: Private collection, United Kingdom; Portobello Road, c. 2014; Where acquired by a private collector United Kingdom; By whom sold, Dreweatts, Old Master, British and European Art, 10 February 2026, lot 145; Where acquired by Haveron Fine Art. Painted by the most celebrated female artist of her generation, this charming double portrait of a brother and sister belongs to Margaret Sarah Carpenter’s highly productive output of the 1830s, and is characteristic of the accomplished duality of her child portraits. Both endearing and elegant, the siblings are pictured at the cusp of adolescence, and Carpenter navigates this moment of tender transformation with a subtlety no doubt informed by her own motherhood of five children. The young boy embraces his elder sister with a fraternal warmth, resting his hand on her wrist with a hint of Regency Romanticism. Their cheeks are flushed with the vitality and pictorial sweetness of youth; their lips are delicately coloured; and their eyes gleam with enlivening highlights. Meanwhile, they have graduated to the fashion of young adults: the boy has been ‘breeched’, and wears a double-breasted velvet jacket with a black cravat, while his sister’s fashion is altogether adult, albeit comprising softer materials, with delicate lace trim and pink ribbons. Moreover, their knowing gaze towards the viewer speaks to a primed sensibility, and their standing within a park landscape perhaps foresees the responsibilities of familial inheritance come adulthood. It was this intuitive and measured approach which earned Carpenter a reputation that vastly exceeded those typically afforded to public women of the 19th century. Indeed, she was for a time considered the natural successor to Thomas Lawrence, whom she is rumoured to have briefly studied under. A typewritten label affixed to the stretcher frame gives the traditional identification of the children as ‘John and Charlotte Poulett / children of / Lt. Gen. Hon. Vere Poulett’. Himself a son of Vere Poulett, 3rd Earl Poulett (1710-1788), the Hon. Vere Poulett (1761-1812) did have a number of children, including John (b. 1789) and Charlotte. However, their birthdates are not fitting with the painting’s date of creation or Carpenter’s own age, and thus leaves the children’s identities uncertain. Indeed, there is no record of any Poulett sitters in a transcript of Carpenter’s sitter book, held in the collection of the National Gallery, London (GB 1082 MSC); however, the record is by no means exhaustive, and does not include some 500 of Carpenter’s other works (particularly her child portraits). It is nonetheless apparent that the siblings’ fashion is belongs to the established classes, and the rural setting presumably suggests a landed family, possibly of noble descent. Margaret Sarah Carpenter (Salisbury 1793-1872 London) Carpenter was born in Salisbury to Alexander Geddes, a retired army officer, and Harriet Easton. Carpenter’s early talent was developed under the tuition of Thomas Guest (1754-1818) in Salisbury, where her skill was noticed by the 2nd Earl of Radnor, who allowed her to make copies of the Old Master pictures at Longford Castle. On Lord Radnor’s advice, Carpenter sent pictures for three successive years to the Royal Society of Arts, receiving a public acknowledgement for each as well as gold medals in 1813 and 1814. Aged 21, Carpenter moved to London in 1814 with Radnor’s funding, and established her early practise in his London residence. That same year, she first exhibited at the Royal Academy and British Institution. Her works received high praise in the press, and some pictures were acquired by the Marquess of Strafford, an influential patron of the arts. Her works were heavily influenced by Lawrence and Reynolds, and it is possible that she studied for a year under Lawrence in 1812. Indeed, she later finished Lawrence’s portrait of Mrs Brandling. Carpenter married William Carpenter in 1817, who later became Keeper of Prints at the British Museum. Together, their five surviving children included artists William, Percy, and Jane Henrietta ‒ a model for some of her mother’s most tender portraits. Carpenter enjoyed a broad professional and social circle, being a close friend of Richard Parkes Bonington, and being reasonably well-acquainted with Constable ‒ who suspected that her incessant work was resulting in physical problems for her, as well as the neglect of her children (Gaze, p. 350). She introduced her sister Harriet to the artist William Collins RA...

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1830s English School Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil