19th Century Italian School

The Italian Old Town, 19th Century Italian Landscape, Framed Oil Painting

John S. Smith 20th Century Fishguard to Rosslare Oil and gouache on board, signed lower left Image size: 35 × 22 inches (89 × 56 cm) Contemporary art deco style frame This wonderful...

Ethelbert White 1891-1972 The Forest Pool Oil on board Image size: 14 x 11 1/4 inches (35.5 x 28.5 cm) Original frame Ethelbert White is probably best...

Oil on panel, inscribed and dated '1946' bottom right Image size: 19 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (49.5 x 39.5 cm) Period frame This painting stands out for its use of full-bodied brushstrokes and thick impasto application of paint. It depicts an Italian harbour in the 1940s, probably on one of the islands in the bay of Naples, such as Procida. The Artist Ezelino Briante was born and trained in Naples and he traveled around Italy and abroad (France, Switzerland, Sweden, Brazil, United States of America) looking for naturalistic subjects that he preferred. This celebrated painter studied at the Accademia di Bella Arti di Napoli and his scenes of Italy won him great support and fame in Italy and internationally. His paintings of Italian piers, in particular those of Campania; well known are also his marine landscapes of Sorrento, Capri, Maiori, Amalfi Coast and Sorrento Coast...

Oil on board, signed bottom left Image size: 6 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (16.5 x 23.5 cm) Contemporary hand made frame A painter in oils of both landscapes and the sea. Not a lot is known...

Oil on board, signed on verso Image size: 31 1/2 x 25 inches (80 x 64 cm) Framed This is a wonderful work of Pointillism, a technique of painting where small, distinct dots of colour are applied in patterns to form an image. This techniques relies on the ability of the eye and mind of the viewer to blend the colour spots into a fuller range of tones. The practice of Pointillism lies in sharp contrast to the traditional methods of blending pigments on a palette. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism. The term 'Pointillism' was coined by art critics in the late 1880s to ridicule the works of these artists, but is now used without its earlier pejorative connotations. The Artist Kenneth Walch Born Wimbledon 1927. After school he moved to Australia in the early 1950’s and won a place at the National Gallery Art School in Melbourne where he studied under Murray Griffin until 1953 when he returned to England. He then enrolled at St Martins School of Art where his principal tutor was the Colourist, Fredrick Gore. Gore introduced him to English post...

Oil on board Image size: 14 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches (37.5 x 30 cm) Contemporary hand made frame A dramatic, and highly colourful, depiction of the crashing waves of the open seas. The ...

Marine - Luigi Basile Italia 2008 - Oil on board cm. 18x24. Gold leaf gilded wooden frame mis. cm. 40x34 Luigi Basile's painting is an extraordinary work of Italian landscape painting. Basile drew inspiration from the artists of the Posillipo School and particularly from Maestro Attilio Pratella. The very small and rapid Neapolitan views...

Marine - Luigi Basile Italia 2008 - Oil on board cm. 18x24. Luigi Basile's painting is an extraordinary work of Italian landscape painting. Basile drew inspiration from the artists of the Posillipo School and particularly from Maestro Attilio Pratella. T he very small and rapid Neapolitan views...

Country Scene - Mario Vassetti Italia 2006 - Oil on board cm.10x15. In this wonderful oil on panel the painter portrays a scene from the life of a small village, with a rural landscape in the background. The painting inspires...

Marine - Luigi Basile Italia 2008 - Oil on board cm. 18x24 - Luigi Basile's painting is an extraordinary work of Italian landscape painting. Basile drew inspiration from the artists of the Posillipo School and particularly from Maestro Attilio Pratella. The very small and rapid Neapolitan views...

I examined with keen interest this pair of paintings depicting pleasant and tasty "Country Scenes " (Paintings oil on panel, 33 x 26 cm without frames and 50 x 42 cm with beautiful p...

Marine - Luigi Basile Italia 2008 - Oil on board cm. 18x24. Luigi Basile's painting is an extraordinary work of Italian landscape painting. Basile drew inspiration from the artists of the Posillipo School and particularly from Maestro Attilio Pratella. The very small and rapid Neapolitan views...