Henri Biva

Nympheas - 19th Century Oil, Waterlilies in Pond in Landscape by Henri Biva

1890

Signed figurative oil on original canvas by French realist painter Victor Gabriel Gilbert. The work shows a flower seller filling a young girl's basket with cherries while a little b...

Signed and dated seascape oil on canvas by Belgian Realist painter Alfred Emile Leopold Stevens. The work depicts a sail boats off the coa...

Signed realist oil on canvas seascape circa 1900 by French painter Georges Philibert Charles Maroniez. This stunning painting depicts two fishermen looking out over the harbour at Le...

A charming riverscape oil on canvas by Danish Realist painter Peder Mork Monsted. The painting depicts a beautiful spring landscape on a bright day. A man stands fishing on the bank of a river outside a pink cottage. Flowers are bursting into life on the riverbank and int he cottage garden. Signature: Signed, titled and dated 1920 lower left Original artist's label verso Dimensions: Framed: 20"x26" Unframed: 14"x20" Provenance: Private collection - Denmark Mønsted was born at Grenå, Denmark. He was the son of Otto Christian Mønsted and Thora Johanne Petrea Jorgensen. His father was a prosperous ship-builder. At an early age, he began to receive painting lessons at the art school in Aarhus. From 1875 to 1879, studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts with Niels Simonsen and Julius Exner. In 1878, Mønsted studied under the artist Peder Severin Krøyer. In 1882, he spent some time in Rome and Capri then, the following year, visited Paris, where he worked in the studios of William Adolphe Bouguereau. In 1889, he went to Algeria. Three years later, he travelled to Greece, where he was a guest of King George I who had been born a Danish prince. While there, he also did portraits of the Greek royal...

Signed and dated oil on canvas landscape by Russian Realist painter Ivan Fedorovich Choultse. This stunning piece depicts the winter sun shining down on a thick blanket of snow. The bare trees are creating blue shadows on the white snow and a stream runs through the landscape. The pale blue of the bright sky is just visible behind the trees. Signature: Signed lower left & dated 1921 Dimensions: Framed: 30"x35" Unframed: 21"x26" Provenance: Burlington Paintings - London (original labels verso) He was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, into a family of German origin (Schultze — original spelling of his family name – had lived in Russia since the 17th century). His first education was in electrical engineering. At the same time he tried to paint landscapes. When he was already thirty years old, he showed his first essays to a famous painter and member of Russian Academy of fine arts Constantin Jakovlevich Kryzhitsky (1858) —1911), who then invited Choultsé to study art. Other significant influences were Russian painter Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi (1841 —1910) and Swiss painter Alexander Calame (1810–1864). Together with Kryzhitsky in 1910 Choultsé travelled to Spitzbergen, where he painted many Arctic landscapes (Datskiy and Medvezhiy islands, Saint Magdalene's bay of the Spitzbergen archipelago etc.). After losing both of his teachers (Kuindzhi died in 1910 and Kryzhitsky committed suicide the year after) Choultsé begins to master his very own style of painting. Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna...

Signed seascape oil on panel by Belgian realist painter Alfred Emile Leopold Stevens. The work depicts a sail boat in choppy waters at nightime. The moon glows brightly behind a dark...

"Colorado Falls" by A. D. Greer measures 45x62 in. and is one of the largest and premiere paintings Greer painted in his life. You can feel the rushing water crashing into rocks surrounded by large pine and oak trees as they stand before a snowy mountain peak. This painting was purchased by Southwest...

JOSÉ MONGRELL Spanish, 1870 - 1937 VALENCIAN FLOWER PICKERS signed “J. Mongrell” lower left oil on canvas 29-1/4 x 45 inches (74 x 114 cm.) framed: 42-3/...

William Didier-Pouget 1864-1959 French Soleil levant, vallée de la Dordogne (Sunrise, Dordogne Valley) Signed "Didier-Pouget" (lower right) Oil on canvas The majesty of the Frenc...

Alexandre Le Bihan. French ( b.1839 - d.1924 ). Niagara Falls. Oil on Canvas. Signed. Image size 23.2 inches x 49.2 inches ( 59cm x 125cm ). Frame size 28.9 inches x 55.1 inches ( 7...

Georges Lapchine 1885-1951 Russian "Matin d'Hiver en Russie" (Winter Russian Morning) Oil on canvas Signed lower left Canvas : 21 5/8" high x 28 3/4" wide Frame: 29 7/8" high x ...

Angela Lyn was born in Windsor, England in 1955 to a Chinese father and an English mother. In 1968 her family emigrated to the USA. In 1972 she traveled to Taiwan to explore her Asi...