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Interior Paintings For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Period: 1980s
Blowing Bubbles
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on panel
Panel size: 21.5 x 17.25 inches
Signed??
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
A Party To The Castle in 18th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A Party To The Castle in the 18th Century
Oil on canvas with a signature G.Weiss low left
Old frame regilded
Dim canvas : 46 X 38 cm
Dim frame : 66 X 58 cm
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Painting 19th century French School Genre Scene Interior Portrait
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
French School 19th century
Close to François Xavier FABRE (1766-1837)
The Princess and The Chaperone
Oil on canvas
One can read on the reverse "Fabre Fecit" and the name and address of the canvas dealer shop...
Category
1850s Academic Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Interior of Knole House, 19th Century Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in London, GB
This grand scene depicts the interior of Knole House, a country house and former archbishops palace. Situated within the 1,000 acre Knole Park the house ranks in the top five of England's largest houses occupying a total of four acres.
The majority of the canvas is given to a well furnished drawing room resplendent with various paintings, tapestries and furniture. To this day Knole House has one of the finest collections of 17th century English upholstered furniture in the world. Much of it was made for the royal palaces of the ruling Stuart dynasty and is of the highest quality. It is likely that the chair and footstools seen her originally came to Knole house as part of the vast collection put together by Charles, 6th Earl of Dorset.
This work has incredible intricate detail in all aspects of the space including the depiction of flowers in vases, a bird in a cage and adorned trinkets. On the armchair sits an English guittar, popular in Victorian Britain. The instrument is recognisable for its pear-shaped body, flat base and rather short neck.
A dog stands before an opened door leading further into the house. In the distance we are given just a glimpse of a lady and gentleman conversing at the window. From here a lovely flow of daylight floods into the rest of the scene making the whole work bright and airy. In the foreground on the windowsill is a music book with pages open and an untouched peach. This perhaps signifies the sudden rush of the young woman away from her resting place to meet the unexpected suitor outside.
The Artist
John Watkins Chapman...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jazz Musicians
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Jacques Henri GUYOT (1946)
Jazz Musicians
Oil on Wood with modern black wood frame
Size panel : 100 X 78 cm
Size frame : 120 X 98 cm
Certificate fr...
Category
1980s Cubist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
An Interior of a Hunter, Franz Poledne, Vienna 1873 – 1932, Austrian Painter
Located in Knokke, BE
Poledne Franz
Vienna 1873 – 1932
Austrian Painter
'An Interior of a Hunter'
Signature: Signed bottom right
Medium: Aquarelle
Dimensions: Image size...
Category
19th Century Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Dutch School Late 19th Century Oil - In the Parlour
Located in Corsham, GB
This charming 19th-century oil depicts an intimate 18th-century parlour scene. Husband and wife inhabit the richly furnished interior, whilst their King Charles spaniel rests at thei...
Category
Late 19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Basket of pansies Flowers - painting 19th century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
BIVA Paul (1851 - 1900)
Basket of Pansies
Oil on canvas signed low left
Framed by Gault (Paris)
Dim canvas : 60 X 80 cm
Dim frame : 80 X 100 cm
BIVA Paul (1851 - 1900)
French Pain...
Category
1880s Academic Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Flower Arrangement - Original 19th Century Painting
By Achille Théodore Cesbron
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Achille Théodore CESBRON (1849-1915)
Flower Arrangement
Oil on oval canvas signed low right
Framed by Gault (Paris - Fbg St Honoré)
Dim canvas : 63 X 48 cm
Dim frame : 79 X 64 cm
Achille Théodore CESBRON (1849-1915)
French school 19th-20th century
Born the 5th of November 1849 in Oran (Algeria). Dead the 4th of January 1915.
Painter of genre scene, portraits, still life, flowers, pastel.
Pupil of Bonnat and Cormon, he regularly exhibited at the « Salon des Artistes Français », whose he became shareholder in 1883, getting several rewards and medals from 1882 to 1886.
He has got the Marie...
Category
1880s Academic Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Austrian genre painting of children in a classroom by Rudolf Geyling
By Rudolf Geyling
Located in London, GB
Austrian genre painting of children in a classroom by Rudolf Geyling
Austrian, late 19th Century
Frame: Height 94cm, width 126cm, depth 8cm
Canvas: Height 75cm, width 101cm, depth 2c...
Category
Late 19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Musician
Located in New Orleans, LA
Alfred Weber
1859-1922 I Swiss
The Musician
Signed “Alfred Weber” (lower left)
Oil on panel
This work by Swiss ecclesiastical genre painter Alfred Weber, best known for his humorous and meticulously detailed paintings, features a cardinal enjoying his leisure time. Weber's talent for rendering opulent interiors and his keen sense of comic narrative are evident in this painting. The cardinal, looking blissfully content, sits in his lavish living space playing the violin, accompanied by a flutist.
Alfred Charles Weber...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
1930's Interior Still Life with Potted Plant and Draped Fabric on Ornate Chair
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Interior Still Life
Simone Forge 1930's French Impressionist
oil on board unframed
board: 9.5 x 7.5 inches
Provenance: private collection
Condition: great condition
For more any m...
Category
Early 19th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait Of A German Pinscher, 19th Century EDWARD AISTROP (1880-1920) Circa 1
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A German Pinscher, 19th Century
EDWARD AISTROP (1880-1920)
Circa 1900 portrait of the head of a German Pinscher, oil on board by Edward Airstrip. Important early depict...
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Windowsill, Large Photorealist Oil Painting by Richard Mizdal
Located in Long Island City, NY
Windowsill
Richard Mizdal, American (1944)
Date: 1985
Oil on Canvas, signed and dated lower right
Size: 54 x 40 in. (137.16 x 101.6 cm)
Category
1980s Photorealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
After Dinner Rest Awhile - Quintessentially British Domestic Scene
Located in London, GB
Margaret Dovaston (1884–1955)
After Dinner, Rest Awhile
Oil on Canvas
Signed M Dovaston (lower right)
46 x 61 cms / 18 x 24 inches
This finely detailed scene by British artist Marga...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Peek-a-Boo
By Seymour Joseph Guy
Located in New York, NY
In the latter half of the nineteenth century and into the first decade of the twentieth, New York City art aficionados could count on finding recent work of Seymour Joseph Guy hanging on the walls of the city’s major galleries. Primarily a genre artist, but also a portraitist, between 1859 and 1908 Guy showed more than seventy works at the National Academy of Design. From 1871 to 1903 he contributed over seventy times to exhibitions at the Century Club. From 1864 to 1887, he sent about forty pictures to the Brooklyn Art Association. A good number of these works were already privately owned; they served as advertisements for other pictures that were available for sale. Some pictures were shown multiple times in the same or different venues. Guy was as easy to find as his canvases were omnipresent. Though he lived at first in Brooklyn with his family and then in New Jersey, from 1863 to his death in 1910 he maintained a studio at the Artist’s Studio Building at 55 West 10th Street, a location that was, for much of that period, the center of the New York City art world.
Guy’s path to a successful career as an artist was by no means smooth or even likely. Born in Greenwich, England, he was orphaned at the age of nine. His early interest in art was discouraged by his legal guardian, who wanted a more settled trade for the young man. Only after the guardian also died was Guy free to pursue his intention of becoming an artist. The details of Guy’s early training in art are unclear. His first teacher is believed to have been Thomas Buttersworth...
Category
19th Century American Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Interior Scene with Ocean View', by A. David Crown, Acrylic on Canvas Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 21" x 17" oil on canvas painting by David Crown, depicts an abstracted rendering of an interior scene, rich in color and detail. Dominating the compos...
Category
1980s Abstract Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Presentation
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Presentation
by Georges Croegaert
French born 1848 – 1923
Oil on panel
Panel size: 16 x 13 inches
Framed size: 24.25 x 21.25 inches
Signed
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Around the Kitchen Table, Late 20th Century Family Scene, Cleveland Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Dale Slavin (American, 1946-2024)
Around the Kitchen Table, 1987
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
43 x 42 inches
Dale had an accomplished art career serving as a sculptor, painter ...
Category
1980s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Afternoon with Family oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Afternoon with Family
Artist: Josep Costa Vila
Date: 1985
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 28.7 x 36.2 inches (73 x 92 cm)
Framing: Unframed
Signature: Signed "Costa...
Category
1980s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red Young Girl with a Necklace - Original oil on canvas, Signed
Located in Paris, IDF
Pierre GARCIA FONS
Red Young Girl with a Necklace, c. 1965
Original oil painting
Signed upper right corner
Signed and titled on the back
On canvas 55 x 38 cm (c. 22 x 15inch)
PROV...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th Century genre oil painting of a French cobbler at work
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Émile Renard
French, (1850-1930)
Cordonnier à Jouy, Eure-et-Loir (Cobbler of Jouy)
Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1883
Image size: 12.75 inches x 17.5 inches
Size including frame: 23.5 inches x 28.25 inches
A realist painting of a cobbler in his workshop by Émile Renard. The composition features an elderly shoemaker seated on a rickety chair next to a bench. The light from a window illuminates his work.
Émile Henry...
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Watercolour painting of Russian peasants feasting by Teikh
Located in London, GB
Watercolour painting of Russian peasants feasting by Teikh
Russian, 1872
Frame: Height 92cm, width 122cm, depth 6cm
Sheet: Height 76cm, width 107cm
This fine watercolour painting is...
Category
1870s Interior Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
“Waiting for his Arrival” Oil on panel, Signed
Located in Jacksonville, FL
The painting is signed and dated 1872 in Algiers
Description:
Ferdinand Victor Léon Roybet (1840-1920) was a French painter renowned for...
Category
19th Century Academic Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Portrait at the Painter's workshop
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Francesco Brunery (1849–1926)
Portrait at the Artist's Workshop
Oil on wood panel
Old frame gilded with leaves
Dim panel : 30 X 24 cm
Dim frame : 54 X 46 cm
Francesco Brunery (1849...
Category
1890s Academic Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Framed 19th Century Oil - Mending Blankets
Located in Corsham, GB
An accomplished 19th-century genre painting depicting a domestic interior with an elderly lady engaged in mending blankets, amid rustic furnishings and everyday objects. The composit...
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
VAN HOVE Dutch romantic genre painting 19th Interior View Artist Rembrandt
Located in PARIS, FR
Hubertus VAN HOVE The Hague, 1814 - Antwerp, 1865 Oil on wood panel Signed and dated lower left "HV HOVE / 1840" 62.5 x 46.5 cm (70 x 56 cm with frame)
Hubertus van Hove born in The...
Category
1840s Romantic Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Lady in yellow", 19th Century oil on panel by Rogelio de Egusquiza y Barrena
Located in Madrid, ES
ROGELIO DE EGUSQUIZA Y BARRENA
LADY IN YELLOW
signed "R. Egusquiza" (lower right)
oil on panel
28-5/8 X 20-3/4 inches (72.5 X 52.7 cm.)
framed: 32-5/8 X 24-3/4 inches (82.5 X 62.5 cm.)
Rogelio de Egusquiza y Barrena (1845 – 10 February 1915) was a Spanish painter, known for his friendship with the German composer Richard Wagner, whose works he helped make familiar in Spain
He was born in El Astillero, into a well-to-do family. He studied in Madrid and with Léon Bonnat at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1868, after travelling and participating several times in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, he returned to Paris and settled there. At first, he painted historical scenes, but later turned to genre scenes and portraits in the Academic style.
Following the death of Marià Fortuny, he moved to Rome at the invitation of the Madrazos, Raimundo and Ricardo, taking Fortuny's place at their studio through 1875 and attending classes at the Spanish Academy in Rome.
He heard Wagner's music for the first time in 1876, after returning to Paris. Three years later, he travelled to Munich to hear a performance of The Ring of the Nibelungen. His enthusiasm for what he heard led him to go to Bayreuth, where he introduced himself to Wagner and became his friend. In the following years, he and Wagner got together again several times; in Venice (1880), Berlín (1881) and Bayreuth (1882); where he was a guest at the premiere of Parsifal.
After his first meeting with Wagner, he decided to devote his career to doing works on Wagnerian themes; mostly portraits of the characters rather than specific scenes. During his visits to Germany, he also created portraits of Arthur Schopenhauer (posthumous) and King Ludwig II...
Category
1880s Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Lady in a Interior" Addison Thomas Millar, 19th Century American Genre Painting
Located in New York, NY
Addison Thomas Millar
Lady in a Interior
Oil on canvas board
14 x 10 inches
Millar's father emigrated to the United States from Scotland in 1845. He grew up in Warren, Ohio. During his primary education, he took some painting lessons from John Bell, a local landscape painter.
In his late teens, he won three consecutive awards from The Youth's Companion, in their annual art contests. This prompted his parents to allow him to go to Cincinnati to take formal lessons from the genre painter, De Scott...
Category
19th Century American Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Fine Victorian British Oil Painting Elegant Figures in Sumptuous Interior Room
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: David Wilkie Wynfield (1837-1887) British
Title: Elegant Figures in an Interior
Medium: oil painting on canvas, framed. Indistinctly Ins...
Category
19th Century Victorian Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bouquet de fleurs dans une timbale posée sur la cheminée
Located in London, GB
Image dimensions: 46cm x 38cm
Framed dimensions: 62.5cm x 54.9cm
Signed lower left.
This beautiful original oil painting by Emile Mesnager depicts a bouquet of flowers in a tumbler...
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Victorian Ladies, by female artist Letitia Bonnet Hart
By Letitia Bonnet Hart
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Letitia Bonnet Hart
(American, 1867-1953)
Victorian Ladies
Oil on canvas, 21 x 16 1/4 inches
FRAMED: 28 x 23 inches (approx.)
Signed at lower right: "Letitia B. Hart"
Label on stretcher: "Marbella Gallery, New York"
Daughter of the Hudson River School painter James McDougal Hart, Letitia was born into an extended family of accomplished artists. After preliminary study with her father and mother, she attended the Brooklyn Academy of Design and the National Academy of Design. She began exhibiting at the age of eighteen, and continued to exhibit in Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Massachusetts, Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Five Wall Decoration 'En Grisaille' by Dufour, Paris, France, 19th Century
Located in Rome, IT
Five papiers peints 'En Grisaille' from the psyche´ series manufactured by Dufour, Paris, after designs by Merry-Joseph Blondel and Louis Lafitte.
-'Psyche´ returning from hades.'
-'...
Category
19th Century Romantic Interior Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper
Pair of 19th Century "Gambling" Oil Paintings After Adriaen van Ostade
Located in San Francisco, CA
Pair of 19th Century "Gambling" Oil Paintings After Adriaen van Ostade
Each painting shows men gambling in a cellar
Original oil on canvas
Dimensions 10" wide x 12" high
The orna...
Category
Mid-19th Century Dutch School Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Ofreciendo una copa", 19th Century Oil on Canvas by Ángel María Cortellini
Located in Madrid, ES
ÁNGEL MARÍA CORTELLINI
Spanish, 1819 - 1887
OFRECIENDO UNA COPA
unsigned
oil on canvas
13-1/4 x 11 inches (33.5 x 28 cm.)
framed: 17-1/4 x 15 (44 x 38 cm.)
Ángel María Cortellini. Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz), 27.09.1819 – Madrid, 1887. Painter.
Ángel María Cortellini was born in Sanlúcar de Barrameda on September 27, 1819, to an Italian father and a Spanish and Sanlúcar mother. Contrary to family opinion, he decided to dedicate himself to painting and already, at the age of nine, he was enrolled in a drawing academy in his hometown. They soon sent him to Seville, where he was a disciple of Joaquín Domínguez Bécquer...
Category
19th Century Romantic Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painting 19th Century Romantic Courtiers Genre Scene
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Courtiers Party in the Park in 18th Century
In the Taste of Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743)
Oil on canvas
Frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 73 X 59 cm
Dim frame : 100 X 87 cm
Category
1850s Old Masters Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th Century genre oil painting of a woman & child in a Welsh cottage
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Alfred Provis
British, (1818-1890)
By the Fireside
Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1869
Image size: 10.5 inches x 15.5 inches
Size including frame: 21.5 inches x 26.5 inches
This charming cottage scene by Alfred Provis features a woman preparing supper by a fire with her young daughter. As the mother peels the turnips and places them in the pot, the girl’s attention is drawn to the kitten feeding from a saucer. The dress and hat of the woman bears a similarity to those found Provis’s other scenes of Welsh cottage interiors. The artist was known to have visited North Wales around the time this painting was produced. In 1869, he exhibited a work entitled ‘Interior of a Welsh Farmhouse’ at the Royal Society of British Artists. Given the level of detail in the painting and the fact that it is in such an impressive original frame, it is possible this is the same painting as the one exhibited.
Alfred Provis was a genre painter born on 18 February, 1818 in Chippenham, Wiltshire. He was the son of John Provis, a timber merchant and his second wife Ann Banks. He spent time in London being tutored by the historical and portrait artist John Wood (1801-1870) before returning to Chippenham. He began exhibiting at the Royal Society of British Artists in 1843, continuing to exhibit there regularly until 1886. He made his debut at the Royal Academy in 1846 with a work entitled ‘A Cottage Door...
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Visiting Grandpa's Workshop
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 24 x 30 inches
Signed lower left
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Interior of a Japanese House
Located in New York, NY
Harry Humphrey Moore led a cosmopolitan lifestyle, dividing his time between Europe, New York City, and California. This globe-trotting painter was also active in Morocco, and most importantly, he was among the first generation of American artists to live and work in Japan, where he depicted temples, tombs, gardens, merchants, children, and Geisha girls. Praised by fellow painters such as Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, and Jean-Léon Gérôme, Moore’s fame was attributed to his exotic subject matter, as well as to the “brilliant coloring, delicate brush work [sic] and the always present depth of feeling” that characterized his work (Eugene A. Hajdel, Harry H. Moore, American 19th Century: Collection of Information on Harry Humphrey Moore, 19th Century Artist, Based on His Scrap Book and Other Data [Jersey City, New Jersey: privately published, 1950], p. 8).
Born in New York City, Moore was the son of Captain George Humphrey, an affluent shipbuilder, and a descendant of the English painter, Ozias Humphrey (1742–1810). He became deaf at age three, and later went to special schools where he learned lip-reading and sign language. After developing an interest in art as a young boy, Moore studied painting with the portraitist Samuel Waugh in Philadelphia, where he met and became friendly with Eakins. He also received instruction from the painter Louis Bail in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1864, Moore attended classes at the Mark Hopkins Institute in San Francisco, and until 1907, he would visit the “City by the Bay” regularly.
In 1865, Moore went to Europe, spending time in Munich before traveling to Paris, where, in October 1866, he resumed his formal training in Gérôme’s atelier, drawing inspiration from his teacher’s emphasis on authentic detail and his taste for picturesque genre subjects. There, Moore worked alongside Eakins, who had mastered sign language in order to communicate with his friend. In March 1867, Moore enrolled at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts, honing his drawing skills under the tutelage of Adolphe Yvon, among other leading French painters.
In December 1869, Moore traveled around Spain with Eakins and the Philadelphia engraver, William Sartain. In 1870, he went to Madrid, where he met the Spanish painters Mariano Fortuny and Martin Rico y Ortega. When Eakins and Sartain returned to Paris, Moore remained in Spain, painting depictions of Moorish life in cities such as Segovia and Granada and fraternizing with upper-crust society. In 1872, he married Isabella de Cistue, the well-connected daughter of Colonel Cistue of Saragossa, who was related to the Queen of Spain. For the next two-and-a-half years, the couple lived in Morocco, where Moore painted portraits, interiors, and streetscapes, often accompanied by an armed guard (courtesy of the Grand Sharif) when painting outdoors. (For this aspect of Moore’s oeuvre, see Gerald M. Ackerman, American Orientalists [Courbevoie, France: ACR Édition, 1994], pp. 135–39.) In 1873, he went to Rome, spending two years studying with Fortuny, whose lively technique, bright palette, and penchant for small-format genre scenes made a lasting impression on him. By this point in his career, Moore had emerged as a “rapid workman” who could “finish a picture of given size and containing a given subject quicker than most painters whose style is more simple and less exacting” (New York Times, as quoted in Hajdel, p. 23).
In 1874, Moore settled in New York City, maintaining a studio on East 14th Street, where he would remain until 1880. During these years, he participated intermittently in the annuals of the National Academy of Design in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, exhibiting Moorish subjects and views of Spain. A well-known figure in Bay Area art circles, Moore had a one-man show at the Snow & May Gallery in San Francisco in 1877, and a solo exhibition at the Bohemian Club, also in San Francisco, in 1880. Indeed, Moore fraternized with many members of the city’s cultural elite, including Katherine Birdsall Johnson (1834–1893), a philanthropist and art collector who owned The Captive (current location unknown), one of his Orientalist subjects. (Johnson’s ownership of The Captive was reported in L. K., “A Popular Paris Artist,” New York Times, July 23, 1893.) According to one contemporary account, Johnson invited Moore and his wife to accompany her on a trip to Japan in 1880 and they readily accepted. (For Johnson’s connection to Moore’s visit to Japan, see Emma Willard and Her Pupils; or, Fifty Years of Troy Female Seminary [New York: Mrs. Russell Sage, 1898]. Johnson’s bond with the Moores was obviously strong, evidenced by the fact that she left them $25,000.00 in her will, which was published in the San Francisco Call on December 10, 1893.) That Moore would be receptive to making the arduous voyage across the Pacific is understandable in view of his penchant for foreign motifs. Having opened its doors to trade with the West in 1854, and in the wake of Japan’s presence at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876, American artists were becoming increasingly fascinated by what one commentator referred to as that “ideal dreamland of the poet” (L. K., “A Popular Paris Artist”).
Moore, who was in Japan during 1880–81, became one of the first American artists to travel to the “land of the rising sun,” preceded only by the illustrator, William Heime, who went there in 1851 in conjunction with the Japanese expedition of Commodore Matthew C. Perry; Edward Kern, a topographical artist and explorer who mapped the Japanese coast in 1855; and the Boston landscapist, Winckleworth Allan Gay, a resident of Japan from 1877 to 1880. More specifically, as William H. Gerdts has pointed out, Moore was the “first American painter to seriously address the appearance and mores of the Japanese people” (William H. Gerdts, American Artists in Japan, 1859–1925, exhib. cat. [New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 1996], p. 5).
During his sojourn in Nippon (which means, “The Land of the Rising Sun”), Moore spent time in locales such as Tokyo, Yokohama, Kyoto, Nikko, and Osaka, carefully observing the local citizenry, their manners and mode of dress, and the country’s distinctive architecture. Working on easily portable panels, he created about sixty scenes of daily life, among them this depiction of an interior of a dwelling. The location of the view is unknown, but the presence of a rustic rail fence demarcating a yard bordering a distant house flanked by tall trees, shrubs and some blossoming fruit trees, suggests that the work likely portrays a building in a city suburb or a small village.
In his book, Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings, Edward S. Morse (an American zoologist, orientalist, and “japanophile” who taught at Tokyo Imperial University from 1877 to 1879, and visited Japan again in 1891 and 1882) noted the “openness and accessibility of the Japanese house...
Category
Late 19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The Morning News Early 19th-century Realism: Antique Oil Painting on Wood Panel
By William Wallace Gilchrist
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Provenance: Exhibited at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1911 #229
Description:
William Wallace Gilchrist (1879-1926) was an American painter known for his captivating depictions of everyday life scenes and his ability to capture the ambiance and aesthetic of the late 19th century. Born in Philadelphia, Gilchrist showed an early passion for art and pursued his artistic education at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Gilchrist’s artwork often revolved around intimate domestic settings, where he skillfully portrayed the beauty and tranquility of ordinary moments. His painting “The Morning News...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
A Musician oil painting by Frederick E. Wright
Located in Hudson, NY
This work of a young musician by Frederick E. Wright is set in an exceptional original Doll & Richards, Boston, frame. The framed dimensions are 16' x 13 1/3" x 1". A hand-written la...
Category
Late 19th Century Abstract Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Botanical Watercolour Painting of Purple Trumpet Flowers with Lush Green Foliage
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Purple Trumpet Flowers
watercolour drawing on artist paper, unframed
drawing: 8.5 x 6.5 inches
Provenance: Private collection
Condition: Great condition
Description: This elegant b...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Interior Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Recital
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 12 x 10 inches
Framed size: 18.25 x 16 inches
Signed lower left
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique watercolour of Palazzo Signoria in Florence
By A. Marrani
Located in London, GB
This beautiful view of a Florentine courtyard was painted by A. Marrani, an artist who, in the late 19th Century, painted many views of the Tuscan city. The cortile (‘courtyard’) sho...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Interior Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Board
Queen of Outer Space - Original Sci- Fi Surrealist Composition On Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Queen of Outer Space - Original Sci- Fi Surrealist Composition On Board
Dramatic sci-fi scene by Russell R. Tripp (American, 1942-2025). This sci-fi surrealist painting blends indus...
Category
1980s Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
A Friendly Game Spring day in England Original Oil Painting Walter Dendy Sadler
Located in Soquel, CA
A Friendly Game Spring day in England Original Oil Painting Walter Dendy Sadler
Jovial companions enjoy a game of cards by Walter Dendy Sadler,.RA...
Category
1880s Barbizon School Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
The Connoisseur By Georges Croegaert
Located in New Orleans, LA
Georges Croegaert
1848-1923 Belgian
The Connoisseur
Signed "Georges Croegaert Paris" (lower right)
Oil on panel
A Cardinal peers through a magnifying glass at gilded treasures in...
Category
19th Century Academic Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Violinist in an Interior - British Impressionist 19thC art musical oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb British Impressionist 19th century oil painting is by noted artist William Christian Symons. Painted circa 1880 it is a figurative interior composition of a musical event...
Category
1880s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Young Woman With Her Dog by Victor Ravet
Located in Stockholm, SE
In this exquisite painting by Victor Ravet, we are transported to an elegant interior setting reminiscent of the grandeur of high-class homes. The focal point is a woman adorned in a shimmering pink gown, radiating grace and sophistication. Bathed in gentle light, her dress catches the glimmer, accentuating her beauty.
She holds a treat for a dog in her hand, enticing the furry companion who stands on its hind legs in eager anticipation. The canine's eyes fixated on the delicious morsel, capturing a moment of playful interaction between the woman and her loyal companion.
The scene takes on a narrative quality as the young woman's other hand delicately lifts a curtain, hinting at another room beyond. This subtle gesture adds depth to the composition, suggesting a world of hidden secrets and intriguing possibilities within the opulent surroundings.
Victor Ravet took inspiration from the Dutch Golden Age painters of the 17th century, such as Vermeer, Jacob Ochtervelt, and Gerrit Dou. This homage to their style and subject matter pays tribute to the timeless allure of domestic scenes, capturing a slice of life in a bygone era.
With meticulous attention to detail, Ravet masterfully recreates the textures and fabrics, immersing the viewer in the sumptuousness of the period. The soft play...
Category
1870s Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Interior Scene of a Woman in Black Gazing Out a Window
By William Verplank Birney
Located in Fort Washington, PA
An elegantly dressed woman sits gazing out of a window with a book on her lap. A fine example of the type of contemplative genre scenes for which Birney was well-known.
William Verp...
Category
Late 19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dreaming in Color, Expressionist Reclining Female Figure
Located in Soquel, CA
A vivid, multicolored expressionist depiction of a gracefully reclining female figure by Bay Area artist Rick Rodrigues (American, 20th Century). Signed with the artist's symbol lowe...
Category
1980s Expressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Playing hide and seek", 19th Century Oil on Panel by Vicente Palmaroli, Spanish
Located in Madrid, ES
VICNTE PALMAROLI y GONZÁLEZ
Spanish, 1834 - 1896
PLAYING HIDE AND SEEK
signed "V. Palmaroli" (lower right)
oil on mahogany panel
17-3/4 x 13-1/2 inches (45 X 34 cm.)
framed: 25-1/4 X 21-1/4 inches (64 X 53.7 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Leslie Hindman Inc., Auctionners
Private Collector, Madrid
Oil on table by Vicente Palmaroli...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The Love Letter
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 24 x 18.25 inches
Framed size: 31.75 x 25.75 inches
Signed lower right
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Giuseppe Aureli Orientalist Watercolor In The Harem .
By Giuseppe Aureli
Located in New York, NY
Middle Eastern Indoor Scene, watercolor of a man and a reclining woman.
Artist: Giuseppe Aureli (1858 - 1929)
Origin: Italian
Date: 19th Century
Medium...
Category
19th Century Other Art Style Interior Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Interior of the Tribune" View of Florence Oil on Canvas The Uffizi Copyists
Located in Pistoia, IT
Gustavo De Rossi (1876-1946), "Interior of the Tribuna-Venere dei Medici," oil on canvas signed lower left. Gustavo De Rossi belonged for a time to that group called "the Copists of...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian School Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
King Louis
By Howard Pyle
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Panel
Signature: Signed "H. Pyle" Lower Right and Inscribed Indistinctly On the Reverse
"At the same time he extended toward King Louis the ...
Category
1890s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Armourer's Shop
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 20 x 30 inches
Framed size: 30 x 39.5 inches
Signed lower left
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Dueling Partners 1850's French Oil, Chateau Staircase Interior Beautiful oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Duel
by Alcide Joseph LORENTZ (French 1813-1891)
signed and dated 1857
oil painting on canvas, framed
framed size: 30 x 25 inches
condition: very good and presentable, previous r...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil