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Period: 1870s
SAPPHO, DAUNTLESS and GRACIE Racing at Cape May 1871
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
James E. Buttersworth's most sought-after artworks emerge from his depictions of American racing yachts going head to head in the major regattas...
Category
American Realist 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pastoral Landscape
Located in Milford, NH
A fine pastoral landscape by Irish artist Edward B. Gay (1837-1928). Gay was born in Dublin, Ireland, and emigrated with his to Albany, NY at a very young age as a result of the pota...
Category
American Impressionist 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In the Courtyard
Located in St. Albans, GB
Sir Alexander Von BENSA
Panel Size: 18 x 25"
Outside Frame Size: 26 x 34"
Oil on panel in very good condition and has benefited from a light clean only.
Original frame
Austrian Sc...
Category
Realist 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pair Antique Oil Paintings Scottish Highland Loch Scenes G. F. Buchanan 1872
Located in Portland, OR
A fine pair of antique oil paintings Scottish Highland Scenes by George Frederick Buchanan (1800-1874)
Landscapist George Frederick Bucha...
Category
Realist 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
“La Jetee” (The Pier)
By Henri Saintin
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful painting of the figures and ships along the French coast and pier by the well known French artist, Henri Saintin. Signed lower right. Oil on wooden panel. Artist wax seal...
Category
Impressionist 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$3,360 Sale Price
20% Off
Calm Summer Lakeland Landscape w Green n Lonely Boat Oil Painting 19th century
Located in Stockholm, SE
Signed “Henning Ö” lower right for unidentified professional Scandinavian painter, oil painting of the second half of the 19th century on canvas pasted on (or supported by) wooden bo...
Category
Realist 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Large river edge with birds in France
By Edmond Yon
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Edmond YON
(Montmartre 1841 – Paris 1897)
Riverbank with birds
Oil on canvas
H. 79.5 cm; L. 130 cm
Signed lower right and dated 1876
Original frame
Exhibition: 1876, Salon des Artis...
Category
French School 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
River Garry Perthshire Landscape - Scottish art exhib 1876 oil painting Scotland
Located in London, GB
This superb Scottish Victorian landscape oil painting is by noted Scottish artist John Blake MacDonald. It was painted in 1876 and exhibited at th...
Category
Realist 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Enfants à la plage (“Children at the Beach”)
Located in Stockholm, SE
Albert Roosenboom was a Belgian genre painter celebrated for his elegant depictions of everyday life in the mid to late 19th century. A pupil of the renowned Constantin Meunier, Roos...
Category
Romantic 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Vintage American Mid Century Modern Sunset Mountain Signed Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist sunset mountain landscape oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1990. Signed on back. Displayed in a wood frame. Image, 20"L x 16"H.
Category
Modern 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$636 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique SUNSET VIEW OF SAN LAZZARO, VENICE
Located in New York, NY
Up for sale is a wonderful Italian Venetian Sunset painting by Bernhard Stange (1807-1880).
Painting for sale depicts SUNSET VIEW OF SAN LAZZARO, VENICE
It is absolutely colorful a...
Category
Academic 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Hudson River School Framed Landscape Signed Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Hudson River School landscape painting by William Louis Sonntag, Sr. (1822 - 1900). Watercolor and gouache on board. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 13 by 17 inches overall, and ...
Category
Modern 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Board
Louis Aime Japy
Located in Dallas, TX
Louis Aimé Japy (1840-1916)
Oil on canvas
Cows in river with village in background
Signed lower right, Japy.
Canvas 26” x 32”
Overall in a period gilt frame 38” x 44”.
Conditi...
Category
Barbizon School 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
The Citadel of Cairo, Evening
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Oil on canvas mounted on board.
As twilight descends over the ancient city of Cairo, the iconic silhouette of the Citadel emerges against the fading light. This is the scene that Robert Swain...
Category
Realist 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Grey Day in Town
Located in North Clarendon, VT
Moody Paul Andorff painting of a town, stormy skies and foreboding! Housed in a period European frame circa 1875. Pairs very well with the other Paul Andorff painting that we have l...
Category
Barbizon School 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th century English marine seascape, with fishing boats in the North Sea
Located in Woodbury, CT
William Thornley was a painter of coastal scenes whose work is very similar to Hubert and Charles Thornley, who may have been members of the same family. He painted scenes of genre, architecture, and landscapes as well. A number of the landscapes were of Belgium, Holland, Italy, and Norway. However, it is for his seascapes that he is best remembered.
Thornley’s works are beautifully detailed and show a masterful understanding of the moods of both weather and sea. They are often small in size and put together with fine detail and great artistic merit. Thornley’s fishing scenes are spirited and similar in style to those of “Jock” Wilson, and are often painted in pairs. Thornley’s works have always been popular when they appear on the art market.
He was believed to have first exhibited marines at the Royal Academy in 1859 from an address in Paddington, London and also at the British Institution from 1861 until it closed in 1867. He continued to exhibit at the Royal Academy until 1898.
Thornley also exhibited at the Paris Salon and the Salon of French Artists, receiving an honorable mention in 1881 and a third-place medal in 1888.
William Thornley also went by the names Georges William and William...
Category
Victorian 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Classical Ruins
Located in Miami, FL
William Louis Sonntag Sr. was an American Landscape painter and a member of the Hudson River School movement. He was an Academician of the National Academy of Design. His work is in ...
Category
Old Masters 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$12,800 Sale Price
20% Off
"Maine Cliffs, Rough Sea" Harrison Bird Brown, American, Rough Sea, Rocky Coast
Located in New York, NY
Harrison Bird Brown
Maine Cliffs, Rough Sea
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
20 x 36
Provenance
Estate of John Carter, Gloucester, MA
Harrison Bird Brown was born in 1831 in Portl...
Category
Naturalistic 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shere, Surrey, 19th century landscape oil on canvas
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Lovely landscape painting of sunset titled Shere, Surrey by George Vicat Cole, RA (1833-1893). The painting is in the tradition of plein art, monogrammed VC lower right and dated 187...
Category
English School 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The walk in Luxembourg Garden in Paris, also called "The Privileged"
By Antoine-Victor-Edmond-Madeleine Joinville
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
JOINVILLE Antoine Victor Edmond Madeleine (1801-1849)
From Ludwig Knaus (1829-1910)
The Walk in Luxembourg Garden" in Paris, also called "The Privileged"
Preserved at The Louvres M...
Category
Academic 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Village in the Geneva countryside
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Golden wooden frame
57 x 44.5 x 5 cm
Category
Old Masters 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Hudson River School Scalp Level Pennsylvania Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American Hudson River School landscape oil painting by Jasper Holman Lawman (1825 - 1906). Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Image size, 10H by 16L.
Category
Hudson River School 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Swiss Landscape, original oil on canvas, c1870, Austrian realist painter
Located in Naples, Florida
This beautiful oil on canvas painting of a Swiss Landscape is circa 1870 and is by the artist Eduard Boehm (1830 - 1890).
Austrian landscape pain...
Category
Realist 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“The Old Homestead”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas laid down to old fiberboard by the well known American artist, Edward Burrill Jr. The painting shows two figures standing in front of an old double chimney ho...
Category
Academic 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,280 Sale Price
20% Off
Landscape with windmill
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
KUWASSEG Charles Euphrasie (1838-1904)
Landscape with Windmill
Oil on canvas signed low right
New Golden frame
Dim canvas : 75 X 108 cm
Dim frame : 104 X 140 cm
KUWASSEG Charles Euphrasie (1838-1904)
French Painter 19th Century born on September 29, 1838 in Draveil (Essonne).
Died in October 1904 in Paris
Painter, Watercolor
Lively landscapes, seascapes, panoramas
Charles Kuwasseg...
Category
Academic 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique 19th century English Victorian Waterfall scene landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
John Brandon Smith,
John Brandon Smith is an English landscape artist of some renown. He concentrated on the waterways of England, Scotland and Wales. He was particularly interested in the effects of cascading water. This led to his being given the moniker 'Waterfall Smith'.
He was fascinated by the spectacle of rivers in spate. Many of his paintings concentrated on the rivers Conway, Llugwy and Lledr in North Wales but he also painted the rivers of England and Scotland. Some of his more celebrated works show The Swallow Falls and Aysgarth Falls in North Yorkshire. He used many shades of green and blue on his small, jewel-like canvases. He would occasionally introduce the figure of a fisherman to provide perspective. His themes are characteristic of the Renaissance of the European Romantic Movement.
He exhibited twenty-two works at The Royal Academy between 1860 and 1874. He also exhibited at Suffolk Street.
This is a very rare large example of the painters work.
It is framed in an Antique English frame
Category
Victorian 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$7,600 Sale Price
23% Off
Lake Of Nemi, Near Rome
Located in Sheffield, MA
George Loring Brown
American, 1814-1889
Lake Of Nemi, Near Rome
Oil on canvas
28 by 48 in. W/frame 36 by 56 in.
Circa 1876/7
signed & dated lower left , inscribed verso:
"Lake of ...
Category
American Impressionist 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lake Annecy, the Tournette
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard
Golden wooden frame
35.5 x 49 x 2 cm
Category
Old Masters 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Charles Henry Miller Tonalist Countryside landscape Painting 1876
Located in New York, NY
Countryside, 1876
Oil on canvas
13 1/2 x 11 in.
Framed: 17 1/2 x 15 x 1 1/2 in.
Signed lower left and dated 1876
Category
English School 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Brig EPHRATAH of Port Madoc Entering Naples
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
With a great view of the city of Naples off her bow and Mount Vesuvius off her stern there's no doubt where this Baltimore Clipper Brig is located. This very well executed portrait has great detail of the port and ship with great coloration throughout and great reflections of the ship on the water. The ship is shown in full sail with flags flying.
The ship was owned and Captained by Griffith Jones, a Welshman born 1831. Port Madoc refers to the Welsh City of Porthmadog- it was spelled Portmadoc before 1974.
Her sloped bow and stern along with her size are typical of a Baltimore Clipper but her masts are not as raked as often seen in ships of this design and she is square rigged, though there are historical paintings and drawings of other Baltimore Clippers built in this way.
Most of what we know about the Brig EPHRATAH is due to the famous wreck of her sister ship FROLIC, though FROLIC was built much earlier. FROLIC is considered the most important wreck on the West Coast of the United States. Dr. Tom Layton of Stanford University connected the two ships in his research on FROLIC.
EPHRATAH was slightly larger than FROLIC at 230 tons, 152’ with a breadth of 22’. She was built in 1873 for Griffith Jones & Co. who would also sail as her master. Jones was Welsh by birth, born in 1831 in Llannor.
FROLIC was built in Baltimore's Gardner Brothers shipyard for the Opium Trade. When steamers came along in the late 1850's it was perfect timing for FROLIC to switch to the busy California trade, fueled by the new California Gold Rush. FROLIC was carrying a rich cargo when she was shipwrecked off Point Cabrillo, California in 1850. When it was discovered in the 1980's the wreck...
Category
Other Art Style 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th century British Marine School, ship in rough seas, with setting Sun
By Bernard Benedict Hemy
Located in Woodbury, CT
19th century British oil, Ship in a rough sea.
The style of the painting is very similar to the work of Bernard Benedict Hemy a well known Briti...
Category
Victorian 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,560 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique British Oil Painting Seascape Coast Scene Shipwreck Landscape Horses
Located in Portland, OR
A very good antique 19th century British oil on canvas painting, seascape coastal scene by Samuel C. Bird, circa 1870.
This very attractive oil on canvas painting depicts a coastal s...
Category
English School 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
British 19th century Victorian Ruined Castle by the shore with fishing boats
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful Antique Victorian Welch landscape, Ruined Castle by the shore side with moored fishing boats
Joseph Horlor was born in Bath in 1809 and was a landscape painter of Welsh sc...
Category
Victorian 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pair of Antique British River landscapes, with waterfalls, mountains and trees
Located in Woodbury, CT
A pair of Victorian English oils on canvas, North Wales river landscape scenes.
Walter Williams (1835-1906) was an English landscape painter who was active in the late 19th century....
Category
Victorian 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Cows in a Landscape"
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on board painting of cows in a landscape by the American artist, James Fairman. Signed lower right. In good condition; overall fram...
Category
Academic 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$2,800 Sale Price
26% Off
A Hazy Morning on the Welsh Hills
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on artist panel, signed and dated lower left. It measures 19.75" x 22.75" including the frame, which is likely the original.
Benjamin Williams Leader RA (12 March 1831 – 22 March 1923) was an English landscape painter. The inspiration for these early works was the countryside around Worcester itself, "the cottages, farmhouses, lanes, hedgerows and churches, so exceedingly picturesque and beautiful". However, Leader did not finish his course of studies at the R. A, nor did he need to – his paintings proved to be in great demand by wealthy buyers and he achieved an enviable degree of commercial success within only a few years of his first sale. In 1857 he changed his name to Benjamin Williams Leader to distinguish himself from the many other painters with the surname Williams. In autumn of that year he travelled to Scotland, and painted A Quiet pool in Glen Falloch...
Category
Victorian 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$4,400 Sale Price
25% Off
Oil Sketch From Rome Called Ruins of Ancient Rome, c. 1870-72
Located in Stockholm, SE
This beautiful oil sketch, painted en plein air, was created by Swedish artist Olof Arborelius during his stay in Italy from the fall of 1870 until January 1872. The painting features a charming depiction of ancient Roman ruins—either a city wall or an aqueduct—surrounded by lush trees under the clear Italian sky. With loose brushstrokes and a soft, atmospheric touch, the artist captures the natural light and Mediterranean ambiance, demonstrating his profound understanding of plein air painting.
Arborelius was heavily influenced by French artistic trends of the time, particularly in his color sensitivity and study of light and air. His time in Italy was critical for his artistic development, marking the height of his mastery in capturing the delicate interplay of light, color, and atmosphere.
Several of Arborelius’ Italian oil studies, including similar small-format plein air works, were later exhibited at various prestigious exhibitions. These include the Svenska konstnärernas förening memorial exhibition in 1910, the Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet in Stockholm in 1931, and a memorial exhibition at the Nationalmuseum in 1943.
Viggo Loos praised Arborelius' Italian studies for their "sensitivity to color" and "intense exploration of light and atmosphere," highlighting these works as a high point in the artist's career. Loos emphasized how Arborelius skillfully captured the essence of the Mediterranean landscape, using vibrant tones and delicate brushwork to convey the interplay of light and air.
Moreover, Folke Holmér, the curator of Arborelius’ 1943 memorial exhibition, described his Italian sketches as some of the most painterly pieces of his early production, worthy of comparison with the best works Swedish artists had produced in Italy.
Among his notable works in major collections are three of his Italian oil studies held at the Nationalmuseum: View from Rome Towards the Arch of Septimius Severus...
Category
Impressionist 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Cardboard
Antique French Oil on Canvas Barbizon School Landscape Cows Victor Binet 1875
By Victor Binet
Located in Portland, OR
VICTOR JEAN BAPTISTE BARTHELEMY BINET
French, 1849-1924
This very attractive & early painting, circa 1875 by Binet, quintessentially defines the late Barbizon School period. Depicti...
Category
Barbizon School 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th century French or Basque 'Young Lovers', a Courting Couple in a landscape
By Maxime Dastugue
Located in Woodbury, CT
Stunning oil on canvas, scene of two young courting lovers in an extensive landscape.
A French painter from the middle to late 19th century. Dastugue was a portrait and genre painter...
Category
Naturalistic 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Winter view
By Anna Barbara Aemisegger-Giezendanner
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on wood
Golden patina wooden frame
60 x 50 x 3,5 cm
Category
Land 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,456 Sale Price
83% Off
The Yosemite Valley No. 1 (sketch)
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
One of the high points in James David Smillie’s career came when he was commissioned to travel to California to both write and illustrate a chapter on the Yosemite Valley for William...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
RENIE Barbizon Hunter Hound Hunt French Impressionnist 19th
By Nicolas Renie
Located in PARIS, FR
Nicolas RENIE
(Active 1840s to 1870s)
Oil on wood
33 x 24 cm (44.5 x 34 cm with frame)
Signed and dated lower left 'NRenié / 1879"
Nicolas Renié is part of the family of the Barbizo...
Category
Impressionist 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th Century European Gypsy Caravan Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful small-scale mid 19th Century European landscape with gypsy figures and caravan by Pal Paul Bohm (Hungarian, 1839-1906), circa 1870. Signed lower right with "Munchen" locati...
Category
Impressionist 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$3,080 Sale Price
20% Off
"Cathedral Rocks, Yosemite Valley" George Henry Smillie, West, 19th Century
Located in New York, NY
George Henry Smillie
Cathedral Rocks, Yosemite Valley, 1871
Signed and inscribed board verso "Cathedral Rocks-Morning-Yo-semite Valley Aug. 71 Geo. H. Smillie", also inscribed "Yo-se...
Category
Academic 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
The Swimmers by the Cercle of Diaz
Located in Pasadena, CA
After the Cercle of Narcisse Díaz ilisible signature .Oil on canvas
Diaz de la Peña, born on August 20, 1807 in Bordeaux and died November 18, 1876 in Menton, is a French painter....
Category
Barbizon School 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Family Portrait
Located in Missouri, MO
Eugene Joseph Verboeckhoven (Belgian, 1798-1881)
Family Portrait, 1871
Oil on Canvas
Signed and Dated Lower Right
29 x 44 inches
34.5 x 49.5 inches with frame
Verboeckhoven began dr...
Category
Realist 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Les Levandries ( The washerwomen )
By Léonard Saurfelt
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
Leonard Saurfelt !840-circa 1890, was a French landscape and genre subject painter. This subject sems to be a preferred demonstration of the hard work women endured during the 19th C...
Category
1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil on canvas by Eugene Verboeckhoven & Alexander Daiwaille (1796-1881)
Located in Uppingham, GB
Oil on canvas by Eugene Verboeckhoven (1796-1881) & Alexander Daiwaille (1818-1888) Landscape with cattle & sheep on a farm track.
Signed by both artists.
Canvas size: 22" x 31" Fr...
Category
Realist 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$10,508 Sale Price
20% Off
Woodstock NY, landscape. No. 2324
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Abstract landscape, Woodstock, New York. Signed lower right, Pinajian. The year 1970. Archive number 2324 Pinajian Estate certificate is included.
Complimentary custom framing will b...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Oil on panel Scotland “View of the Valley of Glencoe”, Edward Hargitt
Located in Valladolid, ES
One of a kind oil on panel by the painter Edward Hargitt, dated 1877 and titled “View of the Valley of Glencoe.” Edward Hargitt (1835–1895) was a Scottish-born painter and ornitholo...
Category
Romantic 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel
The Swimmers by the Cercle of Diaz
Located in Pasadena, CA
After the Cercle of Narcisse Díaz ilisible signature
Diaz de la Peña, born on August 20, 1807 in Bordeaux and died November 18, 1876 in Menton, is a French painter.
From 1837, he...
Category
Barbizon School 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Wash Day, Coastal Stream
By Jules Noel
Located in Greenville, DE
Signed lower right dated 1875.
Category
Realist 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Salvador Murillo "Solitary Figure on a Road" - Framed Antique Landscape Painting
By Salvador Murillo
Located in New Orleans, LA
I actually prefer this painting to the very slightly larger one by Murillo that sold for $11,600 at auction (Hargesheimer & Günther) in 2009. Another couple of paintings sold at auct...
Category
Realist 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Wash Day (Large, Fine European Landscape, 1872, Superb Detail, Oil on Board)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Joseph Jacobus Heppener was a Dutch painter who lived and worked in the heart of the Victorian era, painting in a straight Academic style with a...
Category
Victorian 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tangier
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Tangier, 1870
Oil on canvas, 11 3/4 x 14 1/2 inches
Framed dimensions: 16 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches
Inscribed and dated lower right: Tangier / Africa. Sep. 23rd / 1870
Estate stamp lower l...
Category
Realist 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Set of 3 Original Oils on Copper. English School
Located in Mere, GB
A Set of 3 Original Oils on Copper. English School, "The Palace of Westminster", "Westminster Abbey" and "Canterbury Cathedral"
English School circa 1870.
Finely painted depictions ...
Category
1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Moonlit Landscape with Brushwood Gatherer (1872)
Located in Stockholm, SE
Under a softly luminous night sky, an elderly peasant gathers a bundle of brushwood amid the quiet fields of rural France. This tranquil nocturne is the subject of Alfred Wahlberg’s ...
Category
Impressionist 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
THINGVALLA
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right & dated 1879.
Antonio Jacobsen’s painting of the Thingvalla (a shipping line between Scandinavia and the United States) is a masterclass in maritime artistry, showcasing his signature crisp brushwork and dynamic composition. Jacobsen’s strokes are precise yet expressive, capturing the texture of the ship’s hull and the shimmering movement of the water. The fine detailing in the rigging and smokestack demonstrates his meticulous approach. • The Thingvalla appears to surge forward, cutting through the waves with a palpable sense of momentum. The artist’s use of diagonal lines and the tilt of the vessel enhances the illusion of motion.
Jacobsen’s ability to balance realism with artistic flair ensures that the Thingvalla feels alive, as if caught mid-voyage.
Bio:
Antonio Jacobsen, America's folk art hero recognized for his unsurpassed contributions to America's maritime history, recorded domestic and international ships as they passed through the age of sail to steam. He was a prolific painter and throughout his life painted an estimated 6000 paintings.
Jacobsen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 2 November 1850, where, for generations his family had been violin makers. His father encouraged him to practice a similar craft. At an early age he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Design in Copenhagen, however, reversed family fortunes forced him to withdraw. At the age 18 it was compulsory for him to join the Danish military forces, but he decided instead, to sail for America.
He left his family behind and arrived in New York in the early 1870's. Like many other immigrants, he went to New York City's Battery Park looking for work. He passed his days sketching the ships that sailed in and out of the harbor. Not before long a representative from Marvin Safe Company noticed his drawings and offered him a job decorating safes.
His ability as an artist was further recognized as he began to receive commissions from sea captains and ship owners and eventually Steamship companies, to record their entire fleet. The Old Dominion Line, The Fall River Line and The White Star Line are some of the steamship companies that commissioned him to paint portraits of all the ship in their respective fleets. In addition, the Clyde Line, the Black Ball Line...
Category
Academic 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$27,500
The Swimmers by the Cercle of Diaz
Located in Pasadena, CA
After the Cercle of Narcisse Díaz ilisible signature
Diaz de la Peña, born on August 20, 1807 in Bordeaux and died November 18, 1876 in Menton, is a F...
Category
Barbizon School 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$8,000 Sale Price
66% Off
Harbor Scene
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
This highly detailed harbor scene features many ships of various types, something British Royal Naval officer and artist Commander Charles Lodder would have seen in his everyday life...
Category
Other Art Style 1870s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
