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Landscape Paintings For Sale
Style: Old Masters
Style: Photorealist
Pair of Italian 18' century Paintings with Gardens
Located in Rome, IT
Pair of Italian 18' century paintings , oil on canvas with Venetian Palace gardens , antiques sculptures and various figures .
Measurements with frame cm 75 x101
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
I walk beside you 22
Located in Zürich, ZH
I walk beside you 22
(2022-2023) transfers a viewer into the earlydays of April when a bouffant pink cloud of a 100-year-old magnoliatree outside the artist's studio just starts to b...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Landscape Zuccarelli Paint Oil on canvas Old master 18th Century Italian View
By Francesco Zuccarelli (Pitigliano 1702 - Florence 1788)
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Francesco Zuccarelli (Pitigliano 1702 - Florence 1788), circle of
Landscape with river and resting shepherds
First half of the 18th century
oil painting on canvas
cm. 60 x 93, within a carved and gilded wooden frame cm. 75 x 108
This delightful landscape view animated by a family of shepherds who rest from their daily duties should be compared to the hand of Francesco Zuccarelli (Pitigliano 1702 - Florence 1788);
In the landscapes painted by Zuccarelli the world is crystallized, frozen in a moment of idyllic quiet,
where the 'Arcadian' sense of the landscape is rendered with that pictorial vivacity, chromatic lightness and compositional grace that we find in its entirety in his painting.
By way of comparison we can compare our canvas to other compositions, including:
- Landscape with river and resting shepherds, Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
- Landscape with bridge and horseman, Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
- Landscape with river, village, fisherman and shepherdesses' (Christie's, London May 1960,
- Landscape with figures, Accademia Carrara,
- Landscape with knight and figures, Accademia Carrara
Tuscan by origin, Francesco Zuccarelli trained first in Florence with the landscape architect Paolo Anesi...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sail Boats
Located in Miami, FL
A precise and exact rendering and meticulous spacial arrangement are on full display in Lewandowski's this later work.
The work looks better in person. The artwork is in pristine co...
Category
1990s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
18th Century Lanscape Oil Painting of Matlock High-Torr
By Thomas Smith (b.1720)
Located in London, GB
Thomas Smith of Derby
Matlock High-Torr Landscape
Oil on canvas
27 x 34.5 inches unframed
34 x 41.5 inches including frame
Thomas Smith of Derby (died 12 September 1767) was an Engl...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
King Solomon Rubens Paint Oil on copper 17th Century Old master Flemish Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Circle of Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640)
The Judgement of King Solomon
Oil on copper (41 x 49 cm. - with ebonised and gilded wooden frame 58 x 66 cm.)
The proposed painting, executed in oil on copper, depicts the biblical episode known as the 'Judgement of King Solomon' and is taken from the Book of Kings, in the Old Testament (I Kings, 3, 16-28).
The work is derived from the painting in the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen depicting the 'Judgement of Solomon', which was largely created by Rubens' workshop with some intervention by the master.
The iconography of the painting was certainly made popular by the print made by the Dutch engraver Boetius Adams Bolswert (Bolsward, c. 1585 - Antwerp, 1633) now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.
The extraordinary critical and illustrative success of the work is certain, of which several replicas and copies exist, preserved in museums and private collections: Delft, Rouen and Coutrai, Liechtenstein in Vaduz and in Seville Cathedral.
The prototype for the original Copenhagen painting...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Chroma sky (Blue key) 10 - Contemporary, Blue, Minimalist, Figurative, Landscape
Located in Berlin, DE
Chroma sky (Blue key) 10, 2007
Acrylic and oil on canvas
(Signed on reverse)
23.62 H x 31.49 W in
60 H x 80 W cm
The artist wrote about how he conceives this work:
"The transformat...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
View of Shipping on the River Avon from Durdham Down, near Bristol
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Thomas Smith of Derby (c. 1710-1767)
View of Shipping on the River Avon from Durdham Down, near Bristol, 1756
Oil on canvas
Canvas size - 20 x 47 in
Framed size - 26 x 53 in
Provena...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Shipping in choppy waters of a coastline
By Thomas Buttersworth
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Thomas Buttersworth (1768-1842)
Shipping in choppy coastal waters
signed and dated lower left
Oil on canvas
Canvas Size - 9 x 12 1/2 in
Framed Size - 13 x 16 1/2
Immerse yourself in...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fisherfolk unloading the days catch
By John Thomas Serres
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
John Thomas Serres (1759-1825)
Fisherfolk unloading the days catch
Oil on canvas
Canvas Size - 17 x 25 in
Framed Size - 22 x 30 in
John Thomas Serres, a luminary in the realm of mar...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large 17th century Italian old master - Noli me tangere - Christ in the garden
By Pier Francesco Cittadini
Located in Antwerp, BE
Large 17th century Italian old master - Noli me tangere - Christ in the garden with Mary Magdalene
The Italian art historian Federico Zeri has conserved a painting in his archives w...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A view at Tivoli
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
John Rathbone (1750-1807)
View at Tivoli
Signed lower right
Oil on Canvas
Canvas size - 18 x 24 in
Framed size - 24 x 30 in
John Rathbone was born in Cheshire in 1750 and worked as ...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Liesenbruken, Abandoned Train Bridge, Contemporary Photorealist Painting
By Roland Kulla
Located in Chicago, IL
A bridge to nowhere has been taking no one there for almost 70 years. The Liesenbrücken bridge has been rusting with iron will and doing little else since it was abandoned in favor o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Ghisolfi Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17th Century Architectural Capriccio Art
By Giovanni Ghisolfi (Milan 1623 - 1683)
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Giovanni Ghisolfi
(Milan 1623 - 1683)
Architectural capriccio with ruins of an Ionic temple
Oil painting on canvas
73 x 87 cm.,
within a gilded wooden frame 87 x 100 cm.
This quali...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Knight - painting - XVII century
Located in Roma, IT
The Knight is an original oil painting on canvas realized during the XVII century by an anonymous artist.
Provenance: Pecci-Blunt collection. Good condition...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Winter Landscape Foschi Paint 18th CEntury Paint Oil on canvas Old master Italy
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Francesco Foschi (Ancona, 1710 - Rome, 1780) Attributable
Winter landscape
Oil on canvas
76 x 63 cm. - In frame 87 x 75 cm.
The compositional and stylistic elements of this pleasan...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woodland Farm in Winter with Horse & Cart and Farmer in the English Countryside
Located in Preston, GB
Woodland Farm in the Winter with Horse & Cart and Farmer in the English Countryside with Warm Brown Colours, Small Lake in the foreground, by 20th Century British Artist, Christopher...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th century religious old master - Hagar and the Angel
Located in Antwerp, BE
17th century old master, Hagar and the Angel
In Genesis 16, Hagar, Sarah's maidservant, fled into the wilderness after facing mistreatment. There, she encountered an angel who instr...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Christ Samaritan Woman Pozzoserrato Paint Oil on table 17th Century Old master
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Christ and the Samaritan woman at the well
Attributable to Ludovico Pozzoserrato (Antwerp circa 1550 - Treviso 1605)
Oil on the table
37 x 27 cm., In ...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Garden Landscape De Moucheron Paint Oil on canvas 18th Century Old master Italy
By Isaac de Moucheron (Amsterdam 1667 - 1744)
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Flemish painter active in Rome in the 17th-18th centuries
Circle of Isaac de Moucheron (Amsterdam 1667 - 1744)
Italian garden with water features in a villa
Oil on canvas (49 x 65 c...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Temptations St. Anthony Teniers II Paint 17th Century Oil on canvas Flemish
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
David Teniers II, the Younger(Antwerp, 1610 - Brussels, 1690) Workshop of
The Temptations of St. Anthony Abbot
Oil on canvas
61 x 90 cm. - Framed 95 x 125 cm.
The evocative theme o...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Massive 1600's Dutch Golden Age Old Master Oil Painting Figures in Chateau Park
By David Vinckboons
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figures in a Chateau Parkland Court Setting
Dutch Golden Age, early 1600's period
circle of David Vinckboons (Dutch 1576-1632)
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas measures: 55 x ...
Category
Early 17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Azure Tempest -original modern realism seascape oil painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
In "Azure Tempest," Lia Madsen presents a breathtaking vista of the ocean in all its tumultuous beauty, expertly rendered in realistic detail. This original seascape painting invites...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Green Glow of the Sea-original realism seascape oil painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
In "Green Glow of the Sea," Lia Madsen transports viewers to the mesmerizing realm where land meets water, capturing the essence of the ocean's verdant embrace in stunning realism. T...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sommer’s Glow -original realism modern seascape oil painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
"Sommer's Glow" captures the essence of a tranquil seaside moment, rendered in the vibrant strokes of impressionism by the talented Lia Madsen. This diptych masterpiece consists of t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large 19th century painting - Horses and farm animals in the countryside 1860
Located in Antwerp, BE
19th century British genre painting "A happy animal family in the countryside", 1860
John Frederick Herring II, born in 1815, was an English painter who followed in the footsteps of...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large 18th Century English Old Master Oil Painting Portrait of Lady on canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady
English School, 18th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 31 x 25 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: good and sound condition
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Battle Horsemen Landscape Graziani Paint Oil on canvas 17th Century Old master
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Francesco Graziani, known as Ciccio Napoletano
(active in Naples and Rome in the second half of the 17th century)
Battle with clash of horsemen
Oil on canvas
95 x 130 cm
In period ...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine 18th Century French Old Master Oil Painting Figure in Arcadian Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figure in Arcadian Landscape
French School, 18th century
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 10 x 12 inches
canvas : 6.5 x 9 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very good and ...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Two spaniels working with a huntsman beyond
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
William Jones (c.1798-1860)
Two spaniels working with a huntsman beyond
Oil on canvas
Canvas Size - 16 x 21 in
Framed Size - 21 x 26 in
William Jones’s work is well-known, emanating...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
17th century Flemish Old Master painting - Countryside landscape - Rubens
Located in Antwerp, BE
17th century Flemish old master painting depicting a peaceful countryside scenery by Lucas Van Uden
Lucas Van Uden's life unfolded against the backdrop of the rich artistic tapestry...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Worship of this Love by K Husslein Botanical Hyperrealistic Still life
Located in DE
This is a beautiful oil painting of an array of flowers in a vase in front of a dark background.
Reminding us of old master paintings, this is a brand new painting full elegance and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th century Flemish Old Master - Orpheus charming the animals with his music
Located in Antwerp, BE
17th century Flemish Old Master - Orpheus charming the animals with his music
The present painting is full of delightful details, such as the unicorn galloping in the distance, the ...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Softer Notes for Love by K Husslein Botanical Hyperrealistic Still life
Located in DE
This is a beautiful oil painting of an array of flowers in a vase in front of a dark background.
Reminding us of old master paintings, this is a brand new painting full elegance and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th century dutch romantic painting - Cows, sheep and goats in their field
By Jan van Ravenswaay
Located in Antwerp, BE
19th century Dutch romantic painting of animals resting in their pasture by Jan Van Ravenswaay
Jan van Ravenswaay was a prominent Dutch painter of the 19th century, recognized for h...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Traditional English Farm with Horses, Figures, Trees & Lake by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
English Farmhouse with Horses, Figures, Fields, Trees & Lake entitled 'Winters Morn' by 20th Century British Artist.
Art measures 36 x 24 inches
Frame measures 41 x 30 inches
Ch...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Van Uden Landscape Paint Oil on table 17th Century Flemish school Old master Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Lucas Van Uden
(Antwerp 1595 - Antwerp 1673)
Signed lower right: (Lucas v. ud...)
Hillside landscape with pond
oil on wood panel
34 x 54 cm, with frame 51 x 71 cm.
Work published ...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Huge 17th century old master - The feast of Bacchus - celebration Poussin
Located in Antwerp, BE
Huge 17th century Old Master painting "Bacchus celebration" attributed to Niccolo de Simone
The Bacchus celebration, also known as Bacchanalia, was...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th century Dutch seascape - Stormy sea with a Dutch Hoy - Marine Boats
Located in Antwerp, BE
17th century Dutch old master oil seascape, Stormy sea with boats including a Dutch Hoy and a Packet-Boat
The present painting is a peaceful, yet very lively, seascape and a beautif...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
18th century Old Master oil painting - Travellers at rest in a sunset landscape
Located in Antwerp, BE
18th century old master painting depicting a peaceful countryside scenery at sunset with a fortified town visible in the distance attributed to Franz Paula de Ferg
In the present je...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Copper
17th century Flemish Old Master painting - Vast landscape with a majestic oak
Located in Antwerp, BE
17th century Flemish old master painting depicting a forest landscape with a majestic oak
Alexander Keirincx, born around 1600 in Antwerp, Belgium, was a prominent Flemish landscape...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Fine 17th Century Dutch Old Master Oil Bathers by Wooden Pool Carved Wood Frame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Bathers by the Woodland Pool
Dutch School, 17th century
circle of Cornelis van Poelenburgh (1594-1667)
oil on copper, framed
framed: 13 x 15 inches
copper: 7.5 x 9.5inches
provenance...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Louis Robbe, Landscape With Barn, Sheep & Goats, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This exquisite mid to late-19th-century oil painting by Belgian artist Louis Robbe (1806-1887) depicts three finely rendered sheep, a lamb and two goats before a landscape with dista...
Category
1910s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Early 19th Century Norwich School oil painting of cottage by a pond
Located in Harkstead, GB
A very atmospheric view of a cottage or outhouse by a pond. The artist has given wonderful texture to the paint to simulate the appearance of the foliage of the trees and vegetation to the foreground of the painting. The scene imbued with a dusky northern light.
John Berney Crome...
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View Venice See Giudecca Guardi 18/19th Century Paint Oil on canvas Old master
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Giacomo Guardi (Venice, 1764 - Venice, 1835)
View of Venice with the Giudecca Canal and the Gesuati Church
oil on canvas
34 x 42 cm. - framed 40 x 50 cm.
Expertise dott Federica Sp...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Christ Jesus Lama Religious Paint Oil on canvas 17/18 th Century Old master
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Giovan Battista Lama (Naples, 1673 - 1748) workshop
Exaltation of the Holy Cross with the Symbols of the Passion
oil on canvas
84 x 135 cm. - with frame 98 x 148 cm.
The proposed p...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine 1800's Italian Grand Tour Oil Painting Figures before Classical Buildings
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Arcadian View
Italian School, circa 1800
Grand Tour subject
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 12 x 16 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: very good and sound cond...
Category
Early 1800s Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
17th century Flemish Old Master painting - Vast landscape with a fortified town
Located in Antwerp, BE
17th century Flemish old master painting depicting a peaceful countryside scenery of a vast landscape with a fortified town visible in the distance by Lucas Van Uden
Lucas Van Uden'...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Flight over Dolores
By Lynette Cook
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Lightness of Being' - depicts a white brick building with warm sunlight and shadows cascading across the facade of the warm bricks with white inset window. Birds flying are reflecte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Crater 302 (NASA official commission-74 x 114 inches), Lowell Nesbitt - Painting
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original oil painting on canvas, 1970. Size: 72 x 108 inches. Signed, titled, dated on verso. Provenance: Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, NY. Notes: This is one of the resulting lunar paintings from Lowell Nesbitt’s commission as the official artist for the NASA Apollo 13 space mission. In 1969, artist Lowell Nesbitt was invited by NASA to create artwork to commemorate the Apollo 9...
Category
1970s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Princess Polissena Pietro Da Cortona Paint Oil on canvas Old master 18th Century
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
The sacrifice of Princess Polyxena
Pietro Berrettini, known as Pietro da Cortona (Cortona 1596 - Rome 1669), circle of
Oil on canvas
33 x 49 cm., framed 50 x 65 cm.
The superb work...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dance Putti Van Cleve Paint Oil on table 16th Century Flemish Old master Belgium
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Cornelis van Cleve, or Van Cleef (Antwerp, 1520 - 1567) workshop
Flemish School, late 16th century
Dance of Putti
Oil on wood panel
51 x 108 cm. - framed 67 x 124 cm.
Click HERE to...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Paint Oil on canvas 17th Century Italy Mediterranean Landscapes Marina Flandre
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
We present this pair of fascinating coastal views, the fruit of the author's imagination, executed with an elegant descriptive taste and conceived with the scenographic sensitivity t...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Classical Dutch Winter Scene Figures Large Oil Painting Signed & Gilt Framed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Classical Dutch Winter Scene
signed, 20th century
oil on canvas, framed
canvas: 22.5 x 30 inches
framed: 24 x 36 inches
provenance: private collecti...
Category
Mid-20th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Allegory of four elements, pupil of Jan Brueghel the Younger (1601-1678)
Located in PARIS, FR
17th century Antwerp school
Landscape, animals and stilllife by a pupil of Jan Brueghel the Younger (1601-1678)
Figures by a pupil of Frans Francken II
Oil on canvas: h. 52,5 cm, w. ...
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Important 18th Century Royal Academy Old Master Oil Painting of Georgian London
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘St. James’ Day’ by Richard Morton Paye (1750-1820). This very large and important 18th century oil on canvas depicts a diverse crowd of Londoners at an oyster stand on a summer’s ev...
Category
1780s Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Christ St. Peter De Matteis Paint Oil on canvas 17/18 Century Old master Italy
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Paolo De Matteis (Naples, 1662 - Naples, 1728) attributed to
Christ Delivering the Keys to St. Peter (Handing over the Keys)
Oil on canvas
88 x 138 cm./ Framed 98 x 149 cm.
The pro...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Moses Strikes the Water from the Rock. XVII cent. Dutch school.
Located in Firenze, IT
Moses Strikes Water from the Rock Dutch school, XVII century. Workshop of Jacob de Wet (Haarlem, 1610-1675).
Technique: Oil on oak wood panel, composed of 3 horizontal panels.
In this evocative work, Moses stands in a cave, gathering the Israelites. There was no water to drink or for their cattle. The people were discontented in the desert.
But Moses and Aaron listened to the voice of God. With Aaron’s staff, Moses struck the rock, and water gushed forth abundantly, quenching their thirst.
Jacob de Wet’s workshop specializes in subjects from the Old and New Testaments.
The recognizable rectangular format, simple compositions, and clear narratives define his style. The interplay of light and shadow, reminiscent of Rembrandt, adds timeless allure. The characters’ costumes, with their large hats and turbans...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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