John Ruskin

Antique English Finely Painted Thai Temple Landscape Framed Watercolor Painting

1864

Antique European street scene oil painting. Oil on panel. Framed. Measuring 14 by 19 inches overall and 10 by 14 painting alone. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed ...

Impressive early American modernist landscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 28 H by 22L.

Impressive early American modernist interior oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 20H by 20L.

George Dunlop Leslie (1835 - 1921) Antique English realist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 17 by 20 overall and 12 by 15 paining alone. Artist Bio: George Dunlop Leslie RA (London 2 July 1835 – 21 February 1921 Lindfield, Sussex) was a British genre painter, author and illustrator. He was born into an artistic family; his father was the notable genre painter Charles Robert Leslie RA, and his uncle Robert Leslie was a marine artist. He studied art first at Cary's Art Academy, then from 1854 at the Royal Academy. His first exhibition at the Academy was in 1859, and he showed his work every year thereafter. He became an Associate (ARA) in 1868 and a full Royal Academician (RA) in 1876.George Dunlop Leslie lived early on in St John's Wood (London), and was part of the St John's Wood Clique, a group of artists who favoured light-hearted genre subjects. From 1884–1901 he was resident at "Riverside", St. Leonard's Lane, Wallingford, Oxfordshire. His sister Mary Leslie (1833–1907), also an artist, lived at "Cromwell Lodge" next door. Fellow artist, James Hayllar, was also a resident of the village and they painted a portrait of Queen Victoria together for her Golden Jubilee in 1887. From 1906 he lived at "Compton House" in Lindfield, SussexHis early works, such as Matilda (1860) showed the strong influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, but he settled into a more academic, aesthetic, style of painting with the aim of showing "pictures from the sunny side of English domestic life". He often used children as subjects and his work was praised by John Ruskin for its portrayal of the "sweet quality of English girlhood". One of his pictures, This is the Way we Wash our Clothes, was used as a poster in an advertising campaign for soap. Despite its apparently trivial subject matter, however, Leslie's work was highly regarded by critics of the time.In 1889 during his time at Riverside house in Wallingford Leslie is credited with painting four angel murals in St Leonards Church.Leslie was also an author and had several books published. Our river (1888), Letters to Marco (1893) and Riverside letters (1896) were all illustrated by him in black and white, and based on personal observations of life and nature in his local area. He also wrote a history of the early years of the Royal Academy - The inner life of the Royal Academy.Leslie was married to Lydia. They had a daughter Alice (depicted in his painting Alice in Wonderland) and a son Peter Leslie...

It is an early April morning on the Main embankment in Würzburg. The alley along the embankment is depicted, in the ornament of shadows from the branches of still bare trees. Fresh g...

This artwork depicts a cozy corner of the ancient German city of Aschaffenburg. A winter day with such a rare phenomenon for Europe as snow. Snow falls and covers the old paving ston...

The bank of the Main is depicted on a sunny autumn day. The foliage on the trees, illuminated by the sun, glows with a golden fire against the background of the azure sky. The wind t...

Summer etude painted from life in the morning, standing on the balcony. The view from the balcony to the yard is depicted. Most of the work is taken up by the birch foliage, partly i...