Fanny Mearns

Fanny Mearns (fl.1870-1881) - 1880 Oil, The Bosom Of The Family

1880

An unusually stylised oil interior scene showing a rustic smithy in Weeton, Yorkshire. The artist has achieved the naturalistic lighting of a room lit by daylight from an unseen wind...

A fun interior scene in a charmingly naive style, showing a simple tavern room where a man sits nonchalantly, shirt unbuttoned, one leg up on a stool, as...

A fine oil painting by the artist Pamela Chard, depicting a church interior with figures. Unsigned. On canvas board.

An interior scene with red roses filling the foreground. The painting has been signed and dated in the lower right corner and there is a label at the reverse with the artist's name, ...

A beautifully considered and composed interior scene with nods to the darkened Dutch interiors of the 1600s, this late 19th Century oil shows a skilled hand and an accomplished eye, ...

A fine church interior in oil showing an urn of vibrant flowers with a harvest offering basket at the base, filled with vegetables and fruit. The painting is unsigned and presented i...

Algerian women in an interior. Oil on panel. Signed. This work will be recorded in the catalogue raisonné of the work of the artist currently in preparation. Jules Van Biesbroeck...

Algerian women in an interior. Oil on panel. Signed. This work will be recorded in the catalogue raisonné of the work of the artist currently in preparation. Jules Van Biesbroeck w...

An auction at Drouot's in Paris. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Around 1900-1910. René François Xavier Prinet (31 December 1861, Vitry-le-François – 26 January 1946, Bourbonne-l...

Andre Cottavoz (French, 1922-2012) Untitled, Paris scene with multitude of French flags. Canvas on board, framed. Frame: 20 1/2" x 22" x 1 1/4, Board 13 3/4" x 15"

A FEAST OF THE GODS WITH VENUS AND BACCHUS Collections: With Appleby Brothers, London, June 1957; Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1961; John and Eileen Harris, acquired from the above, to 2015. Literature: Jacob Simon and Ellis Hillman, English Baroque Sketches: The Painted Interior in the Age of Thornhill, 1974, cat. no.12 (as by Louis Laguerre); Elizabeth Einberg (ed.), Manners and Morals: Hogarth and British Painting, 1700-1760, exh. cat., London (Tate Gallery), 1987, cat. no.10 (as by Louis Laguerre); Tabitha Barber and Tim Bachelor, British Baroque: Power and Illusion, exh. cat., London (Tate Britain), 2020. Exhibited: Twickenham, Marble Hill House, English Baroque Sketches: The Painted Interior in the Age of Thornhill, 1974, no.12 (as by Louis Laguerre); London, Tate Gallery, Manners and Morals: Hogarth and British Painting, 1700-1760, 1987, no.10 (as by Louis Laguerre); London, Tate Britain, British Baroque: Power and Illusion, cat. no 92, 2020. CUPID AND PSYCHE BEFORE JUPITER Collections: With Appleby Brothers, London, June 1957; Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1961; Anthony Hobson, acquired from the above, to 2015. These recently re-united paintings are the most ambitious surviving baroque ceiling sketches made in Britain in the early eighteenth century. From the Restoration until the rise of Palladianism in the 1720s decorative history painting formed the preeminent artistic discipline in Britain. It was a field dominated by Continental artists including the Italian Antonio Verrio and the Frenchmen Louis Laguerre and Louis Chéron...

Zygmund Jankowski (1925–2009) painted traditional subjects with exuberant irreverence for traditional rules of color, composition, and perspective. He disparaged imitation and deligh...