Landscape Paintings

"Cheyne Walk, Chelsea" by Michael Alford is a captivating original cityscape painting that skillfully captures the essence of Chelsea's distinctive urban charm. Executed in oil on pa...

"Elizabeth Street" is a charming oil painting measuring 36 by 56 cm, thoughtfully framed to complement the artwork's intimate street scene. The artist has skillfully captured the vib...

"The Final Over - Burton Court SW3" is a striking oil on panel painting measuring 46 x 84 cm, meticulously framed to add an additional elegance and dimension to the piece. This artwo...

"Breaking Surf" by Michael Alford is a captivating original figurative seascape painting that vividly captures the dynamic energy of waves breaking along the seaside. Created with ma...

"Spring Gardens Trafalgar Square" by Michael Alford is a captivating original impressionistic cityscape that invites viewers to witness the vibrant beauty of London's Trafalgar Squar...

"Piazza della Signoria (After Rain), Florence II" by Michael Alford is a captivating original Florence cityscape painting that transports v...

"Side Streets, Florence" by Michael Alford is a captivating original Florence cityscape painting that invites viewers to wander through the...

"Mall, Winter Evening" by Michael Alford is a captivating original impressionistic cityscape that transports viewers to the heart of London on a serene winter night. Created with ski...

"Piazza della Signoria, Florence I" by Michael Alford is a captivating original Florence cityscape painting that transports viewers to the ...

"If on a Winter’s Night I" by Michael Alford is a captivating original impressionistic cityscape that immerses viewers in the enchanting beauty of a winter evening in London. Crafted...

Signed lower right: G. Inness

George Inness (1825 - 1894) A Cloudy Day, 1886 Oil on canvas 25 x 30 inches Signed and dated lower center Provenance: The artist Estate of the above Fifth Avenue Galleries, New York, Executor's Sale of Paintings by the Late George Inness, N.A., February 12 - 14, 1895, Lot 132 Joseph H. Spafford, acquired from the above Mrs. Spafford, by bequest from the above Leroy Ireland, New York, 1951 Ernest Closuit, Fort Worth, Texas Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas, circa 1960 Private Collection Shannon's Fine Art, American and European Fine Art Auction, October 27, 2016, Lot 42 Exhibited: New York, American Fine Arts Society, Exhibition of the Paintings Left by the Late George Inness, December 27, 1894, no. 90.  Literature: LeRoy Ireland, The Works of George Inness: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonne, Austin, Texas, 1965, p. 336, no. 1324, illustrated. Michael Quick, "George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonne," Vol. II, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2007, pp. 282-83, 311, no. 966, illustrated.  George Inness, one of America's foremost landscape painters of the late nineteenth century, was born in 1825 near Newburgh, New York. He spent most of his childhood in Newark, New Jersey. He was apprenticed to an engraving firm until 1843, when he studied art in New York with Regis Gignoux, a landscape painter from whom he learned the classical styles and techniques of the Old Masters. In 1851, sponsored by a patron, Inness made a fifteen-month trip to Italy. In 1853 he traveled to France, where he discovered Barbizon landscape painting, leading him to adopt a style that used looser, sketchier brushwork and more open compositions, emphasizing the expressive qualities of nature. After working in New York from 1854 to 1859, he moved to Medfield, Massachusetts, and four years later to New Jersey, where through a fellow painter he began to experiment with using glazes that would allow him to fill his compositions with subtle effects of light. Duncan Phillips remarked on Inness’s mellow light as a unifying force, saying, “…he was equipped to modernize the grand manner of Claude and to apply the methods of Barbizon to American subjects." At this time also, Inness developed an interest in the religious theories of Emanuel Swedenborg...