1890s Landscape Paintings

Francis Dodd R.A. 1874-1949, was an English landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman and etcher. He attended the Glasgow School of Art and travelled throughout Europe, France, Ita...

Signed and dated figurative oil on canvas by English Pre-Raphaelite painter John Edward Brett. In 1896 John Brett and his wife Mary went to Paris, the first time the artist had been ...

A Pair of Oils on Canvas, Arthur Trevor Haddon R.B.A. "East Gate, Warwick" and "Leicester Hospital and West Gate, Warwick" dated 1894 Arthur Trevor Haddon R.B.A. 1864 - 1941. Painte...

Jasper F. Cropsey An Autumn Landscape Signed and dated J.F. Cropsey 1898 Oil on canvas 14 x 24 inches Provenance Private Collection Texas, acquired in the early 1900s Thence by desc...

MORIN Charles Camille (1846 – 1919) The Girl with goats by the river Oil on canvas signed low left Old frame gilded with leaves Dim canvas : 58 X 91 cm Dim Frame : 88 X 112 cm MORI...

Robert D. Gauley (American, born Ireland, 1875-1943) Lake Como, Near Menaggio, 1892 Oil on canvas, 18 1/4 x 28 1/4 inches FRAMED: 25 3/4 x 35 inches Signed and dated at lower left: “Robert D Gauley/Menaggio 1892” Born in Carnaveigh County, Monaghan, Ireland in 1875, Robert Gauley was a portrait, figure and landscape painter. Around 1884, his family emigrated to the United States and made Boston their home. Gauley began his art training under Denman Waldo Ross in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1890, he received formal instruction at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, studying under Edmund C. Tarbell and Frank W. Benson. In Paris, he studied at the Academie Julian under William Bouguereau and Gabriel Ferrier...

JOAQUÍN PALLARÉS ALLUSTANTE Spanish, 1853 - 1935 PLACE DE LA CONCORDE signed & located "J. PALLARÉS / París." (lower right) oil on canvas 13-1/4 x 18-...

Charles Lewis Fussell (American, 1840–1909) These five undated, small grisaille illustrations of daily life in Hong Kong and Singapore are styli...

SCHULTZ Adrien (1851-1931) 2 oils on canvas signed low right New golden frames Dimensions wood (each) : 61 X 29 cm Dimensions frame (each) : 70 X 38 cm SCHULTZ Adrien (1851 / 193...

Antique American school modernist landscape sunset painting. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a giltwood molding. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy.

Signed lower right and dated lower left August 29, 1893 Little is known about Fritz Vogt until 1890 to 1900 when he earned a reputation for doing nearly 500 graphic architectural drawings near Sharon Springs and Ames in upstate New York. These were rural agricultural towns of German immigrants. His renderings were precise and detailed and indicate he had studied architecture either in Germany or America. His work resembles drawing produced for the Beers Company of Philadelphia, publishers of atlases, but extensive attempts to research his life before 1890 have not been successful. It is known that when he did his upstate New York drawings he stayed with farm families and worked with paper, pencil, and ruler, and that he often worked outdoors. He played musical instruments and sometimes worked as a farm hand. His drawings, many of them in color pencil, showed the types of crops planted, the animals, and details of the buildings. He also did several drawings of churches...

“I Will”, Marie-Joseph-Leon-Clavel French, 1850-1923 Septembre, La Meuse a Dordrecht Oil on canvas, Signed 13 ¼ by 19 ½ in. W/frame 23 ¼ by 29 ½ in. Marie-Joseph-Leon-Clavel took ...

Maritime paintings of the late 19th Century often give great insight into the massive transition which happened in shipbuilding in that period: the end of the sailing ships as mercha...

dated ‘Juli 94’ (lower left)

Edward Francis Rook American, 1870-1960 Brittany Oil on Canvas 30 by 30 in. W/frame 38 by 38 in. Signed lower left Circa, 1898-1900 Rook, born in New York City on September 21, 1870, became one of the most original impressionists at Old Lyme. First he was a student of Benjamin Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian.  Life started out to be rather promising for Rook, around the turn of the century.  He exhibited at the Cincinnati Art Museum and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, both in 1898, when his harbor scene, entitled Pearl Clouds — Moonlight was reproduced in International Studio, in April.  In addition, the PAFA presented him with the Temple Gold Medal for Deserted Street, Moonlight, which the Academy purchased.  Three years later, Rook was awarded a bronze medal at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, where he exhibited three landscapes.  Caffin (1902, p. xxxvi) praised the artist's "translucent quality of color," which suggests a study of color theory.  Also in 1901, Rook married Edith Sone.  For most of 1902, the Rooks were in Mexico. Rook came to Old Lyme in October of 1903.  The date is significant because Childe Hassam was also there that month.  Hassam would more or less re-orient the artists' colony from Tonalism to impressionism.  Rook would move there permanently two years later.  He took two medals at the St. Louis Universal Exposition (1904) where his landscapes from the Mexican trip were displayed.  More awards followed: a silver medal at the International Fine Arts Exposition in Buenos Aires, 1910, a gold medal at San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915,  a Corcoran Bronze Medal, and a William A. Clark Award in 1919 for Peonies.   By 1924, the artist was made a National Academician.  Despite all these awards and recognition, Rook did little in the way of selling his art and reportedly, his prices were too high.  His paintings were handled by Macbeth and Grand Central Art Galleries. Rook was active in Old Lyme's art community.  As stated above, he would have met Hassam that October in 1903 but Willard Metcalf had departed at the end of the summer.  As several writers have explained (Connecticut and American Impressionism, 1980, p. 123), Hassam "was the catalyst around whom [impressionism] coalesced."   Rook's niece, Virginia Rook Garver, who happened to be the grand-niece of Hassam, confirmed that Rook and Hassam knew each other in Europe — before they went to Old Lyme (Fischer, 1987, p. 19).  Rook was one of the relatively young painters to come to Old Lyme, along with Gifford Beal, William Chadwick, and Robert Nisbet, on the wave of impressionism, initiated there by Hassam and Metcalf.  Old Lyme became a center of American impressionism, and as Donelson F. Hoopes remarked, "under Hassam, the shoreline of Connecticut became a kind of Giverny of America."  Among Ranger's group, palettes started to become lighter, except those of the most determined tonalists.  Ranger himself, perhaps admitting defeat, moved to Noank in 1904.  Rook is best known for his views of Bradbury's Mill, which was soon called Rook's Mill, owing to the painter's many versions of the scene.  One, called Swirling Waters, dated ca. 1917, is in the Lyme Historical Society.  Even more famous is Rook's Laurel, dated between 1905 and 1910 (Florence Griswold Museum), in which a profuse laurel bush (the state flower), is set off by a spectacular Constable-like background.  But Swirling Waters could never be confused with Constable, with its violent brushwork, impasto-layered water, and bright, almost chalky, plein-air palette.  Gerdts (1984, p. 226) compares the paintings of Walter...

Medium: Gouache on Several Pieces of Collaged Watercolor P Signature: Signed Center Right Original art for the Art Supplement to The Philadelphia Inquirer's July 25, 1897 issue Acc...

This painting by Orientalist artist Rudolf Ernst depicts a Muslim man in quiet contemplation during prayer. He kneels in solitude in the vast desert as the light fades around him. Ma...

A Day in June, Scene Eastchest, New York Edward Gay (Irish, American, 1837-1928) Oil on Canvas Complimented by original frame in great condition Signed and Dated Lower Right Titled a...

FABIAN DE LA ROSA Filipino, 1869 - 1937 "FILIPINO GIRLO COMING DOWN THE STEPS" signed & dated "F. de la Rosa, 1894" (lower right) oil on canvas 42-3/4 x 23-3/4 inches (108 x 60...

FABIAN DE LA ROSA Filipino, 1869 - 1937 FILIPINO FARM WORKERS IN HORSE CARRIAGE signed & dated "F. de la Rosa, 1894" (lower left) oil on canvas 42-3/4 x 2...