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Interior Paintings For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Period: 1950s
Painting 19th century old master rural daily life
By Henri-Joseph Castaing
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
CASTAING Henri Joseph (1860-1918)
Young girl at the source
Oil on canvas signed low left
Frame gilded with gold leaves
Dim canvas : 100 X 66 cm
Dim frame : 121 X 86 cm
CASTAING Henr...
Category
1890s Old Masters Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pompeian Scene 19th century Painting Oil on Canvas Signed Egisto Sarri
By Egisto Sarri
Located in Rome, IT
Egisto Sarri
"Pompeian scene"
Oil on canvas, measure: cm 30 x 48 with a filly carved gilt - wood frame cm 46 x 64
Signature in the lower left-hand corner: "E. Sarri
Egisto Sarri
(Figline val d'Arno 1837 - Florence 1901)
Sarri studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence under Giuseppe Bezzuoli and Enrico Pollastrini, and was one of Antonio Ciseri...
Category
19th Century Romantic Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Furry Friends (Pair)
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on panel
Panel size: 4.75 x 6 inches each
Framed size: 9.25 x 11 inches each
Monogrammed and dates '66
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Admirer
By Pompeo Massani
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 12 x 9 inches
Framed size: 19 x 15.75 inches
Signed upper left
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Family Interior Scene”, peasant family in 19thC Austria, original oil on paper
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
Frans Wens (19th Century).
A charming family interior scene painted by the Austrian artist Frans Wens. There is little recorded biographical informat...
Category
19th Century Victorian Interior Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
19th Century genre oil painting of figures in a cottage with animals
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Charles Hunt Jnr
British, (1829-1900)
A Visitor Calls
Oil on canvas, signed
Image size: 24.75 inches x 34.75 inches
Size including frame: 32.25 inches x 42.25 inches
Charles Hunt was born in Kensington, London and was part of a dynasty of painters. He was the son of the genre painter Charles Hunt (1803-1877) and father to Edgar Hunt (1876-1955) and Walter Hunt (1861-1941) both of whom were taught by their father and became successful artists in their own right. Two more of his children Reuben Hunt...
Category
19th Century Victorian Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Painting by Robert Farrier "Pheobe the Millers Maid"
Located in Mere, GB
Oil Painting by Robert Farrier "Pheobe the Millers Maid" 1796- 1879. Farrier exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and many of his works were engraved. Oil on panel. Labels Verso ...
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Porcelain Plaque of Bejeweled Beauty by K.P.M. Berlin
Located in New York, NY
An exquisite K.P.M. finely painted plaque, depicting a bejeweled beauty, seated on a curule chair, with impressed monogram and scepter mark and cyphers.
Origin: Berlin
Date: 19th c...
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Porcelain
Art Shipping and Receiving, Photorealist Oil Painting on Board by Harry Lane
By Harry Lane
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Harry Lane
Title: Art Shipping and Receiving
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Oil on Board, signed lower right
Size: 30 in. x 24 in. (76.2 cm x 60.96 cm)
...
Category
1950s American Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
French Modern Still Life
By J. Pomié
Located in Paris, FR
Beautiful oil on hardboard from the middle of the 20th century representing a still life with all the symbolic elements which are a modern transposition on the theme of vanities.
The...
Category
1950s Modern Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Russian watercolour of the coronation of a Tsar
Located in London, GB
Russian watercolour of the coronation of a Tsar
Russian, late 19th Century
Frame: Height 39cm, width 30cm, depth 0.5cm
Sheet: Height 36cm, width 2...
Category
Late 19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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
Canvas, Oil
Eavesdropping
By Charles Hunt
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 28 x 36.25 inches
Framed size: 33 x 41.25 inches
Signed lower right
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
By William Verplank Birney
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Center
Category
Late 19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reception at the Salon
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
STEVENS Agapit (1848 – 1924)
Reception at the Salon
Oil on wood signed low left
New Golden Frame
Dim wood panel : 24 X 39 cm
Dim Frame : 49 X 63 cm
STEVENS Agapit (1848 – 1924)
Be...
Category
1880s Academic Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The Florence Sisters", 19th Century Oil on Canvas, Spanish Artist José Villegas
Located in Madrid, ES
JOSÉ VILLEGAS Y CORDERO
Spanish 1844 - 1921
"The Florence Sisters"
signed "Villegas" (lower left)
oil on canvas
33-1/2 X 40-1/2 inches (84.5 X 102.5 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private Collector, Seville, Spain
José Villegas Cordero (Seville, August 26, 1844-Madrid, November 9, 1921) was a Spanish painter. He directed the Prado Museum between 1901 and 1918.
Biography
He was the brother of the painter Ricardo Villegas Cordero. He began his apprenticeship very young with José María Romero, with whom he remained for two years until entering the School of Fine Arts in Seville, where he was under the tutelage of Eduardo Cano.
In 1860, when he was only 16 years old, he sold his work Little Philosophy for 2,000 reais at the Seville Exhibition. In 1867 he traveled to Madrid, where he entered Federico Madrazo's studio. There he established friendship with painters Eduardo Rosales and Fortuny.
He went regularly to the Prado where he copied Velázquez, from whom he acquired spontaneity and the use of color for his technique.
Finally, and out of admiration for Fortuny's orientalist painting, he returned to Seville and organized an excursion to Morocco.
At the end of 1868 he decided to travel to Rome accompanied by the painters Rafael Peralta and Luis Jiménez Aranda...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Italian oil on canvas painting of a lacemaker by Paoletti
Located in London, GB
Italian oil on canvas painting of a lacemaker by Paoletti
Italian, late 19th Century
Frame: Height 119cm, width 93cm, depth 5cm
Canvas: Height 101cm, width 76cm
This beautiful paint...
Category
Late 19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A Hearty Praise
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on panel
Panel size: 11.75 x 18 inches
Signed lower right
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Parent- Teacher Conference, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Sight Size 26.00" x 24.00", Framed 32.00" x 20.00"
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, December 12, 1959.
T...
Category
1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mummy's Little Helper
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 24 x 18 inches
Signed lower right
Category
19th Century 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
Tea Time
By Frank Bramley
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Signed and dated 92 lower left. Oil on canvas. Frank Bramley British, 1857-1915 Frank Bramley is considered one of the most important artists of the Newlyn School, the group of artists who settled in Newlyn, Cornwall during the 1880s and 1890s, drawn by the light, lifestyle and the example of Alexander Stanhope Forbes, and were at the forefront of 'British Impressionism'. He was particularly ‘in the news’ when his painting of a woman reading in a garden made the astonishing price of $590,000 at Sotheby's New York in late May 1996. As the seminal catalogue of the famous Newlyn School exhibition states, Bramley's reputation has rested for some time on Hopeless Dawn, his major RA exhibition of 1888, and which in recent years has been hung almost constantly at the Tate Gallery. Bramley was born in Lincolnshire and trained at Lincoln Art School, later at Verlat's Academy in Antwerp, from where he went to Venice in 1882-83, where our painting was executed. He first showed at the Royal Academy in London in 1884 (both paintings were Venetian scenes), and it was in the winter of 1884/5 that Bramley settled in Newlyn. He was a quiet and reserved figure, prone to bouts of melancholy. He worked on his own in a tiny studio in an old thatched cottage - the cottage consisted of two rooms, one at ground level (which was the studio) and one which was below ground which was inhabited by a woman who'd lost her arms and who managed to look after a set of tiny children as well as a small potato and turnip shop. Bramley moved to a purpose-built glass studio in 1889. He is known as the master of the so-called 'square-brush technique' which characterizes much of the best Newlyn School work and he used this until 1893, later than most of his colleagues. Bramley was friendly with the great artist Sargent and with him was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1894, being elected a full member in 1911. In 1891 he had married, and 4 years later they moved to the Midlands where his work became less socially orientated and more purely decorative. His last years were spent in a London flat...
Category
1890s Victorian Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Theater Interior Design
Located in London, GB
SERGE FERAT 1881-1958
(Le Comte Sergueï Yastrebzov) Moscow 1881-1958 Paris (Russian/French)
Title: Theater Interior Design
Technique: Original Signed Gouache Painting on paper
siz...
Category
1890s Cubist Interior Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Making Merry
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 21.5 x 17.75 inches
Framed size: 33.25 x 29.5 inches
Signed lower right
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Painting, 19th Century. Interior Scene with Family and dog. "The Alcoholic"
Located in Berlin, DE
Oil Painting, 19th Century. Interior Scene with Family and dog. "The Alcoholic"
Antique oil painting in museum quality. With a royal seal. Early 19th centu...
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young Man, Expressionist Portrait by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Young Man" is an oil on canvas portrait painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The painting is 26" x 36" in size, signed on the lower right. Figurative ...
Category
1950s Expressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Finishing Touches
By William Henry Knight
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on board
Board size: 8 x 6 inches
Framed size: 15 x 13 inches
Signed and dated '56 lower right
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
A Woeful Companion
By Arthur Batt
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 27 x 24 inches
Framed size: 33 x 30.5 inches
Signed and date '87 lower left
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century genre oil painting of figures in a cottage with two donkeys & a dog
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Charles Hunt Jnr
British, (1829-1900)
A Deal to be Done
Oil on canvas, signed
Image size: 24.75 inches x 34.75 inches
Size including frame: 32.25 inches x 42.25 inches
Charles Hunt was born in Kensington, London and was part of a dynasty of painters. He was the son of the genre painter Charles Hunt (1803-1877) and father to Edgar Hunt (1876-1955) and Walter Hunt (1861-1941) both of whom were taught by their father and became successful artists in their own right. Two more of his children Reuben Hunt...
Category
19th Century Victorian Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Harlequin and his dog", 20th Century oil on cardbard by Ismael de la Serna
Located in Madrid, ES
ISMAEL GONZÁLEZ DE LA SERNA
Spanish, 1898 - 1968
HARLEQUIN AND HIS DOG
Signed and dated I. de la Serna, 1955
Oil on cardboard
42 X 27-1/2 i...
Category
1950s Symbolist Interior Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
The Dressing Room
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on panel
Panel size: 14 x 11 inches
Signed lower right
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Feeding the New Brood
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on panel
Panel size: 9.5 x 12.5 inches
Framed size: 14.75 x 17.75 inches
Signed and dated 1870 lower right
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Mid Century Figurative Nativity Scene w Hummel Figurines, Gloria in Excelsis Deo
Located in Soquel, CA
Nativity scene on an architrave of a cathedral, done in the style of Hummel figurines by Helen Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997). Signed "Gleiforst" in t...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Jules TOULOT (1863-nc) Painting 19th century soldier uniform interior
By Toulot Jules
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Toulot Jules (1863-nc)
Pianist officer in the Second Empire period
Oil on canvas signed low right
Old frame regilded with gold leaves
Dim canvas : 65 X 43 cm
Dim frame : 90 X 67 cm
TOULOT Jules (1863-nc)
French painter 19th century
Born 11th November 1863 in Champeinx (Puy de Dôme...
Category
1880s Academic Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Reading to Grandma
By James Hardy Jr.
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on panel
Panel size: 6 x 8 inches
Framed size: 10.25 x 12.25 inches
Signed and date '1860' lower right
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Flirtation
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 29 x 38.5 inches
Framed size: 36.5 x 46.25 inches
Signed lower right
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Interior with sculpture" cm. 25 x 44 1954
Located in Torino, IT
Interior with African statue, cubist guitar,Gray, black, taupe
Giulio DA MILANO (Nizza, 1895 - Torino, 1990)
Giulio Da Milano was a Giacomo Grosso's di...
Category
1950s Cubist Interior Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A Quiet Smoke
By Fritz Wagner
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on panel
Panel size: 8.75 x 7 inches
Framed size: 13.75 x 11.75 inches
Signed upper left
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Ventian Courtyard
By Enid Smiley
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on canvas by listed New York female artist Enid Smiley.
Category
1950s American Modern Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Edgard CUGNOTET - Painting 19th Century - Portrait of Two Children
By Edouard Ferdinand Ludovic Cugnotet
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
CUGNOTET Edgard (19th Century)
Portrait of two Children
Oil on canvas signed low left and dated 1884
Frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 138 X 100 cm
Dim Frame : 162 X 122 cm
CUGNOTET Edgard Ferdinand Ludovic (19th Century)
French painter 19th Century born in Dijon
Figures, Portraits, Landscapes
He was taught by François Édouard PICOT (1786-1868) royal Academy of Anvers.
He exhibited at the Salon de Paris between 1868 and 1884.
Museum : Langres « the hurdy gurdy...
Category
1880s Academic Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Painter - Oil on Canvas attr. to V. Cabianca - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Painter is a colored oil painting on canvas realized in Italy by Anonymous artist of the XIX century.
Attr. to the painter Vincenzo Cabianca (18...
Category
Late 19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique oil painting of Torah Procession after Solomon Alexander Hart
Located in London, GB
This large and impressive oil on canvas painting depicts the Procession of the Torah, an event that occurs during the Jewish festival of Simchat Torah. The location is a synagogue in Livorno, Italy; the scene isdimly light, low light highlighting the many pious figures who occupy the interior of the synagogue. The work is after Solomon Alexander Hart...
Category
19th Century 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
Colorado Woman Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Modernist Still Life, Fruit
By Ruth Todd
Located in Surfside, FL
Ruth Todd (1909-2006, American Woman Artist) one of Colorado’s most prominent avant-garde artists and played a significant role in Colorado’s art history. Known for painting and collage.
Still life with lemon and banana on kitchen table.
Ruth Thomas Todd was born in 1909 in Sanford, North Carolina. She arrived in New York City in the 1930s where she began her career as a fashion model supporting herself as she attended classes at the Art Students League. For reasons of health she moved to Colorado Springs to treat her condition. During her recuperation she started to draw and studied under famous American abstract painter Robert Motherwell, who was teaching at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at the time. By the 1950s, her career as an abstract expressionist painter was blooming. She was one of Colorado’s most visible and avant-garde artists. Ruth married Littleton Todd, a poet and a woodworker. In 1953, Todd traveled to Europe (Paris, France) to study art and to paint. Littleton Todd opened a design studio in Denver where he manufactured and sold modern furniture. She would incorporate sawdust and other found materials from the workshop imbued with oil paint into her abstract work to create unique topographies and patterns. She showed at numerous Gilpin County Art Exhibitions, the Denver Art Museum, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Women’s College, the University of Colorado, Boulder, the Colorado State Fair, and the Jewish Community Center. Among the Colorado Modernists that she exhibited with were Vance Kirkland, Frank Vavra...
Category
1950s Modern Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Lady in White Hat In A Moorish Japonais Interior Reading
Located in New York, NY
Friedrich Fehr (1862-1927) Antique Impressionist Painting of a High Society Lady in White Hat, reading In a Moorish Japonais Interior. Painting is very well done with Persian carpets...
Category
1890s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
"Happy New Year!", The Progressive Farmer Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1958
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Size: 25.00" x 22.00"
The Progressive Farmer magazine cover, January 1958
Exhibited:
Masters of the Golden Age: Harvey Dunn and His Students
South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, South Dakota
May 5, 2015 - September 13, 2015
Norman Rockwell Museum...
Category
1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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 Dangerous Year (The Sunken Garden), " Cover Illustration, 1956
By James Meese
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Signature: Signed Lower Right, with Title and Registration Marks in Chalk
"Tom pleaded, 'Does one misstep have to ruin our marriage?'" Cover illustration for...
Category
1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
"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...
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1880s Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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
Pair of 19' century Chinese Reverse-Painted Mirror Pictures
Located in Rome, IT
A pair of Chinese reverse glass painting representing women and a child in a garden pavillion. Original "Chinese Chippendale" framing.
China for expor...
Category
Early 19th Century Qing Interior Paintings
Materials
Mirror, Paint
Segovie
Located in Sheffield, MA
Marie Antoinette Boullard-Deve
French, 1890-1970
Segovie
Oil on canvas
29 by 21 ½ in. W/frame 39 by 31 ½ in.
Signed lower left and titled and dated 1951 on the back
Marie was born...
Category
1950s Modern Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Library Salon Interior Watercolour by Allen Townsend Terrell
Located in Bristol, CT
Classic c.1950's watercolour by Allen Townsend Terrell (1897-1986) depicting an elegant salon interior from a Palm Beach estate
Image: 23.5"H x 18"W
F...
Category
1950s Other Art Style Interior Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
P Deltour (?), An artist and his models in the workshop, 1879, oil on canvas
Located in Paris, FR
P Deltour (?) French school of the 19th century
The artist with his model and friend in his workshop
Oil on canvas
Signed "P Deltour" (?) and dated 1879 on the lower, an indistinct i...
Category
1870s Romantic Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Her First Steps
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on panel
Panel size: 26.5 x 19.5 inches
Framed size: 35 x 28 inches
Signed and dated 1878 lower left
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
19th Century Painting Interior and Genre Scene
By Jean Alexandre Rémy Couder
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
COUDER Alexandre Jean Rémy (1808-1879)
Reading on the sofa
Oil on canvas signed low left
Old original frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 47 X 39 cm
Di...
Category
1860s Old Masters Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil