(After) Jan Both

Old Master Landscape by a Follower of Jan Both

Ba'al Shem Tov Leading Prayer On A Top of a Mountain. Israel Doskow was a Russian - American artist born in 1881. This fine art is oil on canvas and signed by Israel Doskow circa 1...

This is an excellent Allegorical work in pleasant pastel colors by Charles E. Mills an American artist who lived between 1856 and 1956. The painting depicts two musicians dancing a...

16" x 20" oil on canvas, signed lower right. Thought to be a view in Western North Carolina but could just have easily have been painted in Connecticut. John Winthrop Andrews (1879-1964) John Winthrop Andrews was born on August 31, 1879 in Newtonville, Massachusetts. He studied at the Massachusetts School of Art with Frank Vincent DuMond, Edward Hamilton, and Joseph DeCamp. "DuMond was an influential teacher, counting among his students J. Winthrop Andrews and Gifford Beal. Along with Andrews, DuMond exhibited a painting called October in the first exhibit of the Yonkers Art Association (1916)." Source: The Hudson River Museum provided source material to Resource Library for the aforementioned article on Paintbox Leaves (2010 Exhibition at the Hudson River Museum): Autumnal Inspiration from Cole to Wyeth. J. Winthrop Andrews was best known as a painter of colorful landscapes and seascapes. The artist visited Bermuda from about 1910, the same year as his marriage to Alice G. Blaisdell. Andrews' Bermuda paintings...

Oil on mahogany panel with perfectly good signature that I cannot quite decipher. It is Belgian and has a flag that references the country of origin. I just bought this work and ...

Oil on vanvas, this wonderful panoramic view of Sorrento is iscibed and dated but no artist name I can find on the work. The frame was carefuly crafted for this work and is tgruyly ...

Large Post-impressionist landscape of the South of France by this American ex-patriot. Root studied at the Academy of Julian with JP Laurens ...

The Great Fire of London in September 1666 was one of the greatest disasters in the city’s history. The City, with its wooden houses crowded together in narrow streets, was a natural fire risk, and predictions that London would burn down became a shocking reality. The fire began in a bakery in Pudding Lane, an area near the Thames teeming with warehouses and shops full of flammable materials, such as timber, oil, coal, pitch and turpentine. Inevitably the fire spread rapidly from this area into the City. Our painting depicts the impact of the fire on those who were caught in it and creates a very dramatic impression of what the fire was like. Closer inspection reveals a scene of chaos and panic with people running out of the gates. It shows Cripplegate in the north of the City, with St Giles without Cripplegate to its left, in flames (on the site of the present day Barbican). The painting probably represents the fire on the night of Tuesday 4 September, when four-fifths of the City was burning at once, including St Paul's Cathedral. Old St Paul’s can be seen to the right of the canvas, the medieval church with its thick stone walls, was considered a place of safety, but the building was covered in wooden scaffolding as it was in the midst of being restored by the then little known architect, Christopher Wren and caught fire. Our painting seems to depict a specific moment on the Tuesday night when the lead on St Paul’s caught fire and, as the diarist John Evelyn described: ‘the stones of Paul’s flew like grenades, the melting lead running down the streets in a stream and the very pavements glowing with the firey redness, so as no horse, nor man, was able to tread on them.’ Although the loss of life was minimal, some accounts record only sixteen perished, the magnitude of the property loss was shocking – some four hundred and thirty acres, about eighty per cent of the City proper was destroyed, including over thirteen thousand houses, eighty-nine churches, and fifty-two Guild Halls. Thousands were homeless and financially ruined. The Great Fire, and the subsequent fire of 1676, which destroyed over six hundred houses south of the Thames, changed the appearance of London forever. The one constructive outcome of the Great Fire was that the plague, which had devastated the population of London since 1665, diminished greatly, due to the mass death of the plague-carrying rats in the blaze. The fire was widely reported in eyewitness accounts, newspapers, letters and diaries. Samuel Pepys recorded climbing the steeple of Barking Church from which he viewed the destroyed City: ‘the saddest sight of desolation that I ever saw.’ There was an official enquiry into the causes of the fire, petitions to the King and Lord Mayor to rebuild, new legislation and building Acts. Naturally, the fire became a dramatic and extremely popular subject for painters and engravers. A group of works relatively closely related to the present picture have been traditionally ascribed to Jan Griffier...

Although we have little bibliographical information on William James, we know that he was trained by Canaletto during the painter's stay in England between 1746 and 1755. Although he may never have been to Venice, William James remained under the influence of his master for a long time and became known for his paintings inspired by Canaletto's artworks. In this painting, William James is inspired by one of the twelve views of the Grand Canal painted by Canaletto for Joseph Smith, or more precisely by the engraving made by Antonio Visentini in 1735 after this painting. He delivers a very personal version, vibrant with colours, in which he brilliantly reproduces the moving surface of the sea, animated by the ever-changing traffic of the gondolas. 1. William James, the English follower...

During his stay in Italy from 1734 to 1752, Joseph Vernet made several trips to Naples between 1737 and 1746, where he painted numerous maritime scenes. The pre...

In this painting, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, the great chronicler of the reign of Louis XV, takes us to the annual parade of the Swiss Guards at the Plaine de...

Expertise by Prof. Giancarlo Sestieri. Vincenzo Re (Parma, 1695 – Napoli?, 1762) born in Parma, was an Italian scenic designer who during his career worked as initially an assistant...

Simone Cantarini (Pesaro 1612 - Verona 1648) Adoration of the Magi Oil on paper applied to canvas, cm. 16,5 x 24 – with frame cm. 22 x 29 Antique sh...