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Landscape Paintings For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Period: 1930s
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Mayday on the Annan - Scottish Victorian art landscape oil painting Scotland
Located in London, GB
This superb Scottish Impressionist Victorian expansive landscape oil painting is by noted Scottish artist David Farquharson. Painted in 1887 it is entitled verso Mayday on the Annan....
Category
1880s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Paysage de l'Oise - Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Victor Vignon
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated oil on canvas landscape by French impressionist painter Victor Alfred Paul Vignon. The piece depicts a view of scenery in Oise, a department in the north of France, ...
Category
1880s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Housatonic River at Cornwall
Located in Milford, NH
A fine Connecticut river landscape by American Hudson River artist John William Casilear (1811-1893). Casilear was born in New York City, began his study with master engraver Peter M...
Category
1860s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'The Garden in Summer', Tsar Nicholas II, Queen Elizabeth II, Russian Imperial
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Olga' for Her Imperial Highness, Olga Alexandrovna, Grand Duchess of Russia and painted circa 1935. Additionally inscribed in Danish, verso, 'Malet af Storfyrstinde Olga, Rusland der senere bosatte sig i Ballerup. Emma Davidsen' (Painted by Grand Duchess Olga...
Category
1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Chasing Pheasant
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Master painter of this genre, George Armfield is renowned for his depictions of dogs in the chase. Here a pheasant sails safely above their heads, while the dogs enjoy the chase belo...
Category
19th Century Naturalistic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,920 Sale Price
20% Off
Circle of John Noble Barlow - 19th Century Oil, Village Church From The Meadow
By John Noble Barlow
Located in Corsham, GB
This serene landscape painting captures a tranquil countryside scene, with a village church in the distance.
Circle of John Noble Barlow (1861-1917). British school. Unsigned. Prese...
Category
19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th Century landscape oil painting of travellers on the Penzance Road, Cornwall
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A very nice, detailed 19th Century landscape of travellers on the crossroads of the Penzance Road in Cornwall by British artist Peter Deakin.
The details of the work are as follows:...
Category
19th Century English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Day in the Countryside by Henry John Yeend King
Located in Stockholm, SE
This delightful painting by the renowned Victorian genre and landscape artist Henry John Yeend King captures the serene charm of the English countryside. Depicting an idyllic riversi...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th century English portrait of sheep in a landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
H.Jackson. 19th century English landscape with sheep
English late 19th-century painter of animals either in barns or landscapes. His paintings have the influence of the work of the...
Category
1890s Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
William Adolphus Knell (Attributed), Yachting In The Mediterranean
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This mid-19th-century oil painting attributed to British artist William Adolphus Knell (1805-1875) depicts a sailing yacht before a Mediterranean coastline. Knell was one of the lead...
Category
1860s Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Along a Winter Path, American Folk Art Snow Scene, Horse Drawn Cart, Sun Rise
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Unknown Artist, Late 19th Century
Signed: L.H. (Lower, Right)
Along a Winter Path, c. 1880s
Oil on Canvas
22" x 36"
Housed in a 4" Ornamented Frame
Overall Size: 30" x 44"
An ...
Category
Late 19th Century Folk Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,110 Sale Price
40% Off
Henry Yeend King - Signed & Framed 19th Century Oil, Tudor Cottage
Located in Corsham, GB
A horse drinks from a river outside a thatched Tudor cottage on a serene summer eve.
Well presented in a substantial light wood frame.
Signed. On Board.
Category
19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Early Morning River Landscape, ' by Harry L. Hoffman, Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
In this gilt wood framed oil on canvas waterscape, American Impressionist artist Harry Hoffman depicts the last moments of a morning sunrise over a river in predominant hues of lavender, purple, pink and blue. The sky is reflected in the water below with a sandy brown beach and large green tree in the foreground.
Harry Leslie Hoffman was born in Cressona, a small community in Pennsylvania’s Schuylkill Valley. His mother was an amateur artist who encouraged her son to pursue a career in the arts. In 1893, Hoffman entered the School of Art at Yale University and studied with John Ferguson Weir, the son of Robert Walter Weir. After graduation in 1897, Hoffman moved to New York to continue his studies at the Art Students League. He also traveled to Paris and took classes at the Académie Julien.
In the summer of 1902, Hoffman attended the Lyme Summer School of Art, in the town of Old Lyme on the Connecticut coast. The school was headed by Frank Vincent Dumond and was located in a boarding house owned by Florence Griswold. The school eventually grew into an artists’ colony and a center for American Impressionism. When Hoffman first arrived as a student, he was not permitted to stay in the house which was designated for the professional artists only. However, his outgoing personality soon won him many friends at the colony.
In 1905, Hoffman settled in Old Lyme and worked as a full member of the artist colony. He was particularly influenced by Willard Leroy Metcalf, an Impressionist also working in Old Lyme. Fellow artists later fondly recalled Hoffman’s antics at the Griswold house, which included playing the flute and banjo, tap-dancing, singing humorous songs, and performing magic tricks. In 1910, Hoffman married another Old Lyme artist named Beatrice Pope, and the couple had one child in 1921.
Hoffman and his wife often escaped New England during the harsh winter months. In the winters of 1914 and 1915 he traveled to Savannah, Georgia with fellow Old Lyme artist William Chadwick...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century landscape oil painting of a harvest in Derbyshire
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
George Turner
British, (1843-1910)
Harvesting near Barrow-on-Trent
Oil on canvas, signed & dated (18)86, further inscribed verso
Image size: 19.25 inches x 29.25 inches
Size includ...
Category
19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Alfred Vickers (1853-1919) - Late 19th Century Oil, The Golden Lion
Located in Corsham, GB
An original painting by Alfred Henry Vickers (1853-1919), depicting a quaint village with the Golden Lion pub to the left and a group of figures gathered by the village fountain. The...
Category
Late 19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Washing Day in Coastal Landscape - Scottish Victorian Impressionist oil painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely Scottish Impressionist Victorian oil painting is by noted artist Joseph Henderson. Painted circa 1880 it is entitled Washing Day. The composition is of two women laying o...
Category
1880s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dans les champs - Neo Impressionist Riverscape Oil by Leo Marie Gausson
By Léo Gausson
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated neo-impressionist landscape oil on canvas by French painter Leo Marie Gausson. Gausson painted this picturesque view of then fields above Triel-sur-Seine, a small to...
Category
1890s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Street of the Old Quarter British School signed Cade oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
**Technical Sheet**
**Title:** "Street of the Old Quarter"
**Author:** British School, 19th Century
**Date:** 1892
**Technique:** Oil on canvas
**Dimensions:** 14.17 x 10.63 inc...
Category
1890s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$889 Sale Price
37% Off
Early 19th Century English Oil Painting Travellers at Sunset Ancient Ruin Land
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Travellers in Landscape
English artist, early 19th century
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 22 x 24 inches
canvas: 15 x 15.5 inches
provenance: private collection, England
condition: ve...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th Century landscape oil painting of a shepherd & flock in a country lane
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
George Turner
British, (1843-1910)
Near Tonge, Leicestershire
Oil on canvas, signed
Image size: 15.25 inches x 23.25 inches
Size including frame: 22.75 inches x 30.75 inches
A cha...
Category
19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Impressionist River Landscape, Poplars on the Banks of the River Epte
By Claude Monet
Located in Cotignac, FR
French late 19th century Impressionist oil on board landscape. To the other side of the board is a further river landscape (see separate listing LU1430216208672)
A moody and atmosph...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique French Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting Framed, Signed
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5149 Antique French Impressionist oil painting landscape
Signed lower left
Image size
22x18"
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Soir dans une gorge Boisee" Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Plein-Air Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Soir dans une gorge Boisee, 1850-55
Signed lower right
Oil on board
13 1/2 x 9 inches
Provenance:
Dutilleux, Paul Tesse, etc.
Quincy Adams Shaw
Pauline S...
Category
1850s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
19th century English River landscape with figures, horses, cottage, sheep
By John Frederick Tennant
Located in Woodbury, CT
Well painted and very interesting composition attributed to the English landscape painter john Frederick Tennant.
His work is very similar to ...
Category
1840s Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,760 Sale Price
20% Off
Victorian Sporting Oil Painting Spaniel Dogs Putting up Pheasant in Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Spaniels Putting up a Pheasant
English sporting artist, mid 19th century
Circle of George Armfield (1808-1893)
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 17 x 21 inches
canvas: 14 x 18 inches
pro...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Gentleman in a Landscape, Scottish Portraiture, Portrait, Wealthy
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
John Pairman (Scottish, 1788 - 1843)
Signed: J Pairman 1820 (Lower, Right)
" Portrait of a Gentleman ", 1820
Oil on Canvas
22 1/4" x 18 5/8"
Housed in a 2 3/4" Husar Frame
Ove...
Category
Early 19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique 19th century Scottish Oil Painting Castle on Hill overlooking River
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Castle on the Hill
Scottish artist, early 19th century
oil on canvas, framed
unsigned
framed: 21 x 27 inches
canvas: 18 x 24 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: ...
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
19th Century Oil - Church in the Alps
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming 19th-century oil depicting an alpine landscape, with rugged peaks rising in the distance under a soft, hazy sky. To the foreground a quaint church is nestled in the valley...
Category
19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Venice Grand Canal Landscape Bouvard Aldine 19/20th Century Paint Oil on canvas
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Antoine Bouvard, called Marc Aldine (L'Isere 1875 - Paris 1957)
Signed 'Bouvard' lower right
View of Venice with the Grand Canal (link)
oil on canvas
60 x 86 cm
Framed 70 x 96 cm.
Very good condition
We present an evocative view of Venice with a glimpse of the fascinating Grand Canal, signed by the famous French Vedutist Antoine Bouvard, also known by his pseudonym, Marc Aldine.
Considered one of the most talented illustrators of the lagoon city who worked there in the first part of the 20th century, he became one of the most acclaimed vedutists of that period, with a success that led him to exhibit throughout France and Italy as well as in numerous European galleries...
Category
19th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$7,154 Sale Price
20% Off
Fine 1800's French Oil Figures by Monastic Ruins Stream Bucolic Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Monastic Ruins by a Stream
French School, early 1800's
oil on canvas, framed
Framed 15 x 19 inches
Canvas : 12.5 x 16 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition: very go...
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Spanish landscape oil on board painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Josep Ventosa Domenech (1897-1982) - Navarcles - Oil on panel
Oil measurements 16x22 cm.
Frame measurements 31x37 cm.
Category
1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$474 Sale Price
50% Off
P. Slater - Continental School 19th Century Oil, View of The Cathedral
Located in Corsham, GB
This atmospheric painting depicts a bustling medieval European town, dominated by a soaring Gothic cathedral spire at its centre. The composition skilfully balances the intricate arc...
Category
19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Summer Shade - 19th Century Oil Painting of English River Landscape Lancashire
By Henry Dawson
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Summer Shade’ by Henry Dawson R.B.A. (1811-1878).
The painting – which depicts cattle in the shade of a large tree on the river Ribble in North Yorkshire – is signed by the artist...
Category
1860s English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$5,424 Sale Price
20% Off
Walter T Sacks Antique Impressionist New York Winter Snow Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressionist winter landscape painting by Walter Sacks (1901 - 1961). Oil on board, circa 1930. Signed. Displayed in a vintage frame. Image size, 12"L x 10"H.
Category
1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Village Inn Victorian Oil Painting Gilt Framed Many Figures Chickens & Dog
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Tavern"
by Georgina Lara (active 1862-1971)
oil painting on canvas, framed
painting: 9 x 13 inches
framed: 13 x 17 inches
Delightful Victorian oil painting by the very popular...
Category
19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American 1900 SUNSET LUMINOUS Stream Landscape Figure W/ Boat
Located in New York, NY
Here we have an incredible Luminous Landscape with a boat in a stream by Charles P Appel (1857-1928)
Painting is very calm and soothing to look at….
amazing condition, unlined and ...
Category
1890s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Paul-Desire TROUILLEBERT , Sartrouville Church, Oil on canvas, 19e C.
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Paul-Desire TROUILLEBERT (1831-1900), France, 2nd part of the 19th C. Saint-Martin-de-Tours church in Sartouville near Paris. With frame: 58.5x51 cm - 25.2x22 inches...
Category
19th Century Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th century English marine Sailing scene of Dutch fishing boats by a harbor
By Henry King Taylor
Located in Woodbury, CT
Henry King Taylor was a marine and coastal scene painter who lived in London. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1859 to 1864 with titles includi...
Category
1850s Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Charles Walter Radclyffe RBSA (1817-1903) - Framed Oil, The Gossiping Drover
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming landscape scene by Charles Walter Radclyffe (1817-1903), depicting a cattle drover gossiping with a local woman, partway over a stone bridge crossing. The composition has ...
Category
Late 19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Cows in a Meadow'. Oil painting by Louis Japy
Located in St. Albans, GB
Louis Aimé Japy
1840 - 1916
Oil painting on canvas
Fully signed
Picture Size: 21.25 x 28.25" (54 x 72cm)
Outside Frame Size: 28.25 x 35.25" (72 x 89cm)
Excellent age appropriate con...
Category
Late 19th Century Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$5,554 Sale Price
30% Off
“Rough Seas”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a very well executed luminous oil on artist board painting by the American artist, Franklin Dullin Briscoe. Signed and dated by the artist lower righ...
Category
1890s Academic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
19th century oil Highland Scottish sheep in a Highland Lock Landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
19th century Scottish Highland Sheep in a landscape.
A Scottish 19th century Highland landscape painting featuring Highland sheep by Vincent Collier offers more than just aesthetic ...
Category
1890s Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century English Pastoral Oil Painting Cattle Resting by River at Sunset
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Close of Day
English School, mid 19th century
oil painting on canvas, framed
framed: 23 x 27 inches
canvas : 14 x 18 inches
Provenance: private collection, England
Condition: ver...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
A.B. Scott - Framed Late 19th Century Oil, Bunnies Under the Oak Tree
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming late 19th-century oil study depicting a lush green countryside scene. In the foreground, two bunnies can be seen resting under the shade of an oak tree.
Well presented i...
Category
Late 19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Huge 1830's British Oil Painting on Canvas Farmyard Scene with Animals Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Victorian Farmyard
British School, circa 1830
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 34 x 48 inches
provenance: private collection, England
condition: good and sound condition, though w...
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Flowers on the Riverbank landscape, France
Located in Greenwich, CT
Knight is most famous and collected for his riverbank views lined with flowers done during his extensive years in France. his father was Daniel Ridgeway Knight...
Category
19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Escuela española (XIX) - Óleo sobre tela - Castillo de Cardona
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Firmado en la parte trasera, parece poner Sevilla Urtado (desconozco el artista) y también va titulada "Castillo de Cardona)
Se presenta enmarcada la pintura con un marco del siglo ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Detailed European Landscape in Watercolor and Gouache on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Detailed European Landscape in Watercolor and Gouache on Paper
This finely detailed watercolor painting captures a serene countryside setting with an old stone church, a rustic hous...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Lake and mountain landscape
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
19th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
LARGE OIL PAINTING OLD MASTER ARTHUR MEADOWS (1843 - 1907) FINE 19th CENTURY
Located in Ferndown, GB
OIL PAINTING OLD MASTER ARTHUR MEADOWS (1843 - 1907) FINE 19th CENTURY BRITISH
Original Antique Large late 19th/early 20th Century British OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING Romantic Sea Scene...
Category
19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Lake in the Mountains', Arthur G. Nebra (1880-1955) oil on canvas c1930
Located in Frome, Somerset
Arthur G. Nebra (1880-1955) Swiss. 'Lake in the Mountains' circa 1930's.
oiil on canvas 54cm x 73cm including the original frame.
Romantic Realism iso...
Category
1930s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Victorian Marine Oil Painting Prison Hulk and Ships at Sunset on Medway England
Located in ludlow, GB
Victorian Marine Oil Painting depicting an Old Prison Hulk and other Shipping at Sunset on the Medway in England.
Oil painting on Canvas, mounted on stretchers and framed in its original ornate gilt frame, there is no visible signature on this piece but it is a genuine Thornley, anyone who is familiar with his work will know this and those that are not, will have absolutely no doubt this is by the hand of an extremely accomplished Painter.
Thornley remains a staple of the British Maritime Painting...
Category
19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th century English Warship at sea with the Sun rising or Setting
Located in Woodbury, CT
Adolphus Knell
19th-century English Warship at sea
Owning in a 19th-century English fishing boat captured at sea circa 1880 by Adolphus Knell, with the sun rising or setting, offer...
Category
1880s Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
19th Century Original Hudson River School Landscape - Fishing in Sierras
Located in Soquel, CA
1880s Century Original California School Oil Painting of Native Americans Fishing in Sierras by Ransome Gillet Holdredge
Wonderful landscape of Sierra Mountains in Hudson River Scho...
Category
1880s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Stretcher Bars, Oil, Raw Linen
French impressionist landscape, Barbizon forest, Paris with river and cows
Located in Woodbury, CT
19th century English impressionist scene of the Barbizon forest, near Paris France, with a river, cows, and trees.
Boyle was a pioneering 19th-century British artist inspired by E...
Category
1890s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Thomas II Whittle (fl.1856-1897)
Located in Corsham, GB
A magnificent Welsh landscape by the listed British artist Thomas II Whittle (fl.1856-1897). Evening Hour at Penmaen-Bach. Signed and dated (1867) to the lower right. Well presented ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
A bay hunter in a landscape
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Charles Towne (1763-1840)
A bay hunter in a landscape
signed and dated 'Charles Towne Pinxit 1816' lower left
Oil on canvas
Painting Size - 20 x 26
Framed Size - 25 x 31 in
Provena...
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$12,313 Sale Price
35% Off
Studio per -Aeroarmonie- Tempera 1933 cm. 62 x 49
Located in Torino, IT
Studio per l’opera Aeroarmonie esposto alla biennale di Venezia del 1934
Sul retro cartiglio :
Ufficio storico -Popolo d’Italaia-
Autentica prof. Duranti N° archivio 2272
Osvaldo P...
Category
1930s Futurist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Cardboard
Thomas Sidney Cooper RA, Livestock In A Landscape With River Beyond
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This fine mid-19th-century oil painting by British artist Thomas Sidney Cooper RA (1803-1902) depicts two cows and a sheep in a landscape. Cooper was a distinguished painter of the n...
Category
1850s Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Irvine Harbour" James MacMaster, Scottish Seascape, Marine Ship Painting
Located in New York, NY
James MacMaster
Irvine Harbour
Signed lower right
Watercolor on paper
10 1/4 x 14 inches
Provenance:
Private Collection, New Jersey
Category
Late 19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$540 Sale Price
70% Off
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