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Period: 18th Century
British East Indiaman Ship Returning from a Voyage to the East
Located in Milford, NH
A large marine painting probably depicting a British East Indiaman ship returning from a voyage to the East, attributed to British artist Francis Holman (c1720-1790). Born in Ramsgat...
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18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Animated Farm and Windmill Scenery
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Black wooden frame
51 x 73 x 5 cm
Category
18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape Painting with Pastoral Scene, 18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas.
Of flavor bucolic and serene, the scene set in the countryside on the edge of the hamlet that can be glimpsed on the left shows a woman and her son standing near a st...
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Other Art Style 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
1700’s Flemish Old Master Oil Shepherds & Animals Sunset Landscape View
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Marc Baets (Flemish 1720 - 1785), follower of
Pastoral Scene
oil painting on canvas, framed
framed: 23 x 29 inches
canvas : 17 x 23 inches
provenance: private collection, England
c...
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Old Masters 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Romantic British painter - Early 19th century landscape painting - Moonlight
Located in Varmo, IT
English painter (early 19th century) - Boats in the moonlight on the Thames.
30.5 x 41.5 cm without frame, 49 x 59 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in carved and gild...
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Romantic 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Follower Nicolas Lancret (French) - 18th century figure painting - Gallant scene
Located in Varmo, IT
Follower of Nicolas Lancret (Paris 1690 - Paris 1743) - Gallant scene in a landscape.
63.5 x 76 cm without frame, 91 x 102.5 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in carve...
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Rococo 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Battle scene Oil painting on canvas Attributed to Karel Breydel
Located in Milan, IT
Attr. to Karel Breydel, known as the Knight of Antwerp (1678 - 1733)
Battle with knights and landscape in the background
Oil on canvas, cm 44.5 X 36.7
Frame 52.5 x 45 cm
The pain...
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18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Rococò French painter - 18th century figure painting - Joseph brothers Interior
Located in Varmo, IT
German painter (18th century) - The cauldron.
84 x 105cm.
Antique oil painting on canvas, without frame.
Condition report: Lined canvas. Good state of conservation of the pictoria...
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Rococo 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Italian Arch - Old Master British art Italian landscape and ruins through arch
By (Circle of) Hubert Robert
Located in London, GB
This lovely British 18th century landscape oil painting is attributed to circle of Hubert Robert or Robert of the Ruins as he was better known. The work depicts an extensive landscap...
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Old Masters 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rococò French painter - 18th century figure painting - Joseph Interior prisons
Located in Varmo, IT
French painter (18th century) - The prison.
84 x 105cm.
Antique oil painting on canvas, without frame.
Condition report: Lined canvas. Good state of conservation of the pictorial ...
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Rococo 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Flemish school 18th century landscape bridge river Antwerp old master classical
Located in PARIS, FR
18th century Flemish school
Oil on panel
Trace of a signature lower left ?
32 x 39 cm (46 x 56 cm with frame)
Beautiful old frame in gilded wood from the Empire period
This landscap...
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Flemish School 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Meeting in the Woods" 19th Century Antique Oil Painting on Canvas
By George Henry
Located in Jacksonville, FL
The painting is signed.
Description:
George Henry Boughton: A Master of Narrative and Natural Beauty
George Henry Boughton, a distinguished Anglo-American artist of the 19th centur...
Category
Academic 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Francesco Battaglioli (Venetian painter) - 18th century landscape painting
By Francesco Battaglioli
Located in Varmo, IT
Francesco Battaglioli (Modena 1710 ca. - Venice post 1796) - Architectural capriccio with characters.
83.5 x 114.5 cm without frame, 98 x 130 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on...
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Rococo 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
British landscape Dialogue at lunchtime 18th century Oil painting on wood
By Julius Caesar ibbetson
Located in Stockholm, SE
Signed lower right - Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1759 – 1817). The majority of Ibbetson’s Lakeland scenes were painted to order after he had moved away to Yorkshire, and therefore lack the immediacy of the present canvas. This work is painted, with his own, inimitably pleasing style. Antique oil painting on wood panel...
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Realist 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
A large English 18th century painting of a Chestnut horse
By Thomas Beach
Located in Bath, Somerset
A saddled chestnut hunter tethered to a post at the entrance to stables with a wooded landscape and a hill beyond. Signed and dated lower left, 'T. Beach pt., 1785'.
Provenance:
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's 28 May 1999. lot 15
Thomas Beach was essentially known as a portrait artist and the present painting is a rare example of his skill as an animal painter. His ability to convey a sense of the character of his sitters is evident here in the remarkably sensitive portrayal of the horse's expression.
Beach painted...
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English School 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape painting with herdsmen
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas.
The landscape proposes a very green countryside, crossed centrally by a watercourse on the bank of which, in the foreground, a herd of cattle is watering; in the cent...
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Other Art Style 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Travellers
By Richard Wilson R.A.
Located in St. Albans, GB
Richard WILSON
Circa 1780
Canvas Size: 28 x 38" (71 x 97cm)
Outside Frame Size: 42 x 52" (107 x 132cm)
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English School 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Venice Grand Canal Tironi Paint Oil on canvas Old master 18th Century Italy Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Francesco Tironi (Venice, ca. 1745 - 1797) Workshop of
View of Venice with the Grand Canal from the church of S. Croce to the church of S. Geremia
c. 1770
oil on canvas, cm. 92 x 1...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Shipping in Calm Waters, 18th Century Dutch Oil on Wood Panel, Man o War
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Shipping in Calm Waters
Dutch School, 18th century
oil painting on wood panel
panel: 10 x 12.75 inches
framed: 14 x 17 inches
condition: very good, minor evidenc...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Rococò Venetian painter - 18th century figure painting - Turkish orientalist
Located in Varmo, IT
Venetian painter (18th century) - Turcherie with parrot and player.
43.5 x 63.5 cm without frame, 50 x 70 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on can...
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Rococo 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Pair of Grisaille paintings Rustic scenes 18th century French Rococo Master
By Jean-Baptiste Pillement
Located in Stockholm, SE
Attributed To French Master Jean-Baptiste Pillement (1728 - 1808). Magnificent rococo pair paintings depicting scenes from the life of Europe of the 18th century. Two scenes tell us about the lives of travelers and fishermen of the time. Two frames of the same century perfectly complement these paintings. Paintings made in the technique: Pastel, Bodycolor, chalks, and perhaps gouache on paper or paperboard supported by wooden boards. Gold leaf neoclassical frames of early 1800s (not examined under frames). On the reverse side of the wooden substrate, there is a stamp, "Bundesdenkmalamt Wien", Perhaps Jean-Baptiste Pillement (1728 –1808). Antique old paintings...
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Rococo 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Chalk, Pastel, Gouache, Wood Panel
Carnival painter (Italian school)- 18th century figure painting - Street show
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (18th century) - Street theatre.
74.5 x 62.5 cm without frame, 86 x 73.5 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a gilded wooden frame.
Condition report:...
Category
Rococo 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Seascape with Figures Oil on canvas '700
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas.
The coastal foreshortening, near a rocky inlet where torrential waters flow, sees figures at the landing of ships, ready to welcome the approaching boats; in the dis...
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Other Art Style 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Huge 18th Century Italian Oil Painting Shipping in Merchant Port Many Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Merchants Port
Italian School, 18th century
oil painting on canvas, framed
framed: 37 x 58 inches
canvas: 32 x 52 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: very good a...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“At The Oasis" 19th Century Antique Landscape orientalist Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Provenance:
Private Collection, Naples Fl, to Andrew Ford Collection, Sarasota, Fl. 2018
Description:
Georges Washington was born out of wedlock and held a...
Category
Realist 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Duomo of Milan with Pesants- Oil Painting - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Duomo of Milan with peasants is a modern artwork realized by an Italian Artist in 18th century.
Mixed colored oil on canvas
40x33cm with frame included.
Good conditions.
Category
Modern 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Painting Dutch school 18th Marine Turkish ship Gibraltar fortress Van de VELDE
Located in PARIS, FR
18th century Dutch school
(After Peter van DE VELDE The Younger (1749-1714))
Oil on canvas
40 x 27 cm (54 x 41 cm with the frame)
Beautiful old frame from the Empire period
The smal...
Category
Baroque 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Paesaggio con Figure, 1700s
By Antonio Francesco Peruzzini 1
Located in Milan, IT
Olio su tela.
La grande composizione propone un paesaggio che vede centrale un grande albero. a sormontare con le sue rade frasche la campagna sottostante, traversata da un corso d'acqua e animata da diverse figure di popolani intenti ad attività o a riposo; in alto a destra si erge una fortezza, che domina la vallata.
Già attribuito al marchigiano Peruzzini, il dipinto si può ricondurre senz'altro al suo ambito, per i tratti pittorici veloci e poco aggregati.
Antonio Francesco si specializzò nella pittura di paesaggio, subendo l'influenza di Salvator Rosa e di paesaggisti come Pietro Montanini...
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Other Art Style 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Journey, Late 18th English Oil Landscape
Located in London, GB
Oil on panel
Image size: 5 1/2 x 8 inches (14 x 2o cm)
Contemporary hand made frame
A charming scene of an English country lane, featuring a group of travellers resting on their journey. Two maids seem deep in discussion while they wait with a gentleman wearing a tricorn hat and fashionable maroon...
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English School 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Rococò master (Italian school) - 18th century figure painting - Samson Delilah
Located in Varmo, IT
French master (18th century) - Samson and Delilah.
81 x 119 cm without frame, 99 x 137 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in antique carved wooden frame.
Condition rep...
Category
Rococo 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View Across the Valley, Late 18th Century English Moonlit Scene
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 14 1/4 x 18 inches (36 x 45.7 cm)
Period gilt frame
In this painting the bright moon, partially obscured by mounting dark clouds, dramatically lights the l...
Category
18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Animated Landscape with Horsemen and Figures
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Molded frame in plaster and gilded wood
66 x 84 x 7 cm
Category
18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pastoral scene
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
Italian School 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Simon-Mathurin Lantara (Circle of), Seaside Landscape
Located in Paris, FR
18th century French school in the manner of Simon-Mathurin Lantara. Seaside landscape with a vaporous and fine tone and a great lightness of touch. O...
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18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dipinto Paesaggio con Figure, XVIII secolo
Located in Milan, IT
Olio su tela. Scuola nord-italiana del XVIII secolo.
Il paesaggio, ambientato in riva ad un ampio fiume, vede al centro alcune figure di contadini intenti a raccogliere della frutta ...
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Other Art Style 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Animated fishing scene
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
64 x 82.5 x 7 cm
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hendrick van Lint workshop (Roma)- 18th century landscape painting - Apollo
Located in Varmo, IT
Circle of Hendrik Frans van Lint (Antwerp 1684 - Rome 1763) - Apollo and Daphne.
40 x 50 cm.
Antique oil painting on canvas, without frame.
Condition report: Lined canvas. Good co...
Category
Rococo 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
18th Century French School , South American Landscape, Brazil.
Located in East Grinstead, GB
French School watercolour of a group of sailors from a French Frigate in the region of Fernando de Noronha off the coastline of Brazil. The picture is inscribed, lower left, and depi...
Category
18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape in Germany
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Transport yourself to the lush landscapes of Germany through this captivating artwork. Painted during the artist's stay in Germany, the painting beautifully captures the verdant scen...
Category
Impressionist 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Capriccio by the Lagoon, Venice
By Francesco Guardi
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
Italian School 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Italian Landscape With Figures at a Waterfall by a Follower of Jan van Huysum
Located in Stockholm, SE
There are so many details to fall in love with in this 18th-century painting depicting an Italianate landscape, for example, the delicately painted figures having a conversation and ...
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Old Masters 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Two countrywomen with a donkey - Melancholy in an atmosphere of colour -
Located in Berlin, DE
Pierre Louis De La Rive (1753 Geneva - 1817 Geneva). Two countrywomen with a donkey. Oil on canvas, mounted, 27 x 20 cm (visible size), 37 x 31 (frame), monogrammed "P.R." at lower right.
About the artwork
De La Rive has taken the typical scenes of Dutch landscape genre paintings...
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Old Masters 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figures resting by a fire with a wagon in a wooded landscape
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Benjamin Barker of Bath (Pontypool 1776-1838)
Figures resting by a fire with a wagon in a wooded landscape
Oil on canvas
28 x 35 7/8 in
71.1 x 91.2 cm
Benjamin Barker, the younger ...
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Old Masters 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Old Master Eglomise Painting of Saint John the Baptist 18th Century
Located in Rochester, NY
18th century continental eglomise painting of St John the Baptist preaching. Eglomise is a method of reverse painting on glass. In a go...
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Old Masters 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Glass, Paint
The peace of your nights descends into their thoughts
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper mounted on wood
35.5 x 45.5 x 2 cm
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
LESUEUR Neo-classical Classical Landscape with a faune French 19th Oil on panel
Located in PARIS, FR
Pierre Etienne LESUEUR (Active between 1791 and 1810) Oil on panel 27 x 38.5 cm (42 x 53 cm with the frame) Signed and dated lower right "E. LESUEUR / 1790" Very beautiful early 19th...
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French School 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
18th Century Architectural Capriccio Gaetano Vetturali Landscape Oil on Canvas
By Gaetano Vetturali (Lucca, 1701-1783)
Located in Sanremo, IT
Oil painting on canvas measuring 85 x 110 cm without frame and 103 x 126 cm with frame depicting a landscape with figures along the path.
In the work in question, depicting a large ...
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Italian School 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View of the Grand Canal, a painting by William James, after Canaletto
By William James
Located in PARIS, FR
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...
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Old Masters 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dipinto di Paesaggio con Rovine e Figure, XVIII secolo, olio su tela
Located in Milan, IT
Olio su tela. Scuola italiana del XVIII Secolo.
Il campo sinistro della scena è occupato da una grande struttura architettonica in rovina, vestigia del passato; sulla destra invece, ...
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Other Art Style 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
German Baroque landscape Settlement near lake 18th century Oil painting Signed
Located in Stockholm, SE
Signed lower right for Johann Christian Vollerdt (1708 - 1769). The beauty of baroque scenery is visible in painting, an excellent perspective with striking effects of chiaroscuro. This distinguishes the work of German painters of the 18th century. In their paintings, they exaggerate nature a bit and go visually beyond the borders of the canvas. With the exception of one drawing (“River landscape in the Dutch style”), only paintings by Vollerdt are known at the moment, exclusively miniature river landscapes, which were very popular at the time. His earliest surviving works date from 1738, the latest from 1769. Oil painting on canvas, framed.
Size app.: 34.5 x 43.2 cm (roughly 13.6 x 17 in) and nice original frame ca 46.5 by 55.5 cm (roughly 18.3 x 22 in). Very Good condition, usage age wear losses on the edges mostly; restorations, retouches; edge of canvas relined. Please study good resolution images for overall cosmetic condition. In person actual painting may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 2,05 kg is going to measure some 4 kg volume weight packed for shipment.
Vollerdt initially received training in the private school of the copper engraver Paul Christian Zinck in Leipzig. After 1738 he began his apprenticeship with Johann Alexander Thiele in Dresden. Initially, he worked as a supraport painter. So he is probably the author of the 31 over-portals and panneaus in Oberlichtenau Castle, which Heinrich Graf von Brühl acquired in 1744, of which, however, only those in the garden hall have survived. From 1758 to 1769 V. painted a multitude of such landscapes, often pairs of pictures...
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Realist 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
Painting LESUEUR French Neo-classical Landscape Late 18th Oil canvas Italy
Located in PARIS, FR
Pierre Etienne LESUEUR (Attributed to) (Active between 1791 and 1810) Oil on panel 27 x 38.5 cm (42 x 53 cm with the frame) Very beautiful frame in carved and gilded wood from the be...
Category
French School 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Animal scene Duck hunting with dogs 18th century Swedish Master by Philip Korn
Located in Stockholm, SE
Monogrammed lower left: Johan Philip Korn (1728 - 1796), was a Swedish painter. A beautiful landscape, with a backwater in which carefree ducks swim, hunters and their dogs in passion, in the background you can see a city with a bell tower. Old masters have been depicting animals in their paintings since the Renaissance. In those days, hunting scenes were popular - there is always a share of emotional participation in them. Here it is necessary to understand that in previous centuries people looked at hunting as a means of obtaining food, therefore naturalism dominates in the painting of the old masters. Old oil painting on wooden panel, in a non-original frame of the 19th century.
Size app.: 49 x 64 cm (roughly 19.3 x 25.2 in) and nice golden gesso frame ca 65.5 x 81.5 cm (roughly 25.8 x 32.1 in). Very Good condition, age wear, cracks on a wooden board, minor losses, retouches, cleared and conserved. Please study good resolution images for overall cosmetic condition. In person actual painting may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 6.4 kg is going to measure some 10 kg volume weight packed for shipment.
Johan Philip Korn first began his career as a decorative painter. He was a student of artist Johan Sevenbom (1721-1784). After further studies he changed to landscape painting in the Rococo style of French artist François Boucher (1703–1770) and often after Dutch copper engravings. In 1759, Korn became master of the Stockholm...
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Realist 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Dutch school 18th century RUYSDAEL oil on wood Landscape Bull river monogram
Located in PARIS, FR
Dutch school of the 18th century Oil on wood panel 33 x 22 cm (39 x 28 cm with the frame) Signed lower center with the monogram "JR" Good condition (some thinness on the left of the picture)
There is a composition engraved by Jean Jacques de Boissieu in 1772 and given to Jacob van Ruisdael...
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Dutch School 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Painting Landscape with Buildings and Figures, 18th century, oil on canvas
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Northern Italian school of the 18th century.
The wide landscape features a herdsman in the center who has just passed with his cattle over the small bridge over the st...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dutch genre painting 18th JANSON Oil on canvas Village fair peasants Kermesse
Located in PARIS, FR
Johannes JANSON (Attributed to) Amboyna (Moluccan Islands), 1729 - Leyden, 1784 Oil on canvas 47 x 57 cm (62 x 72 cm with frame) Trace of signature lower right Monogrammed and dated on the back "1755"Inscription on the recto « Johannes Janson » Very beautiful old frame in gilded wood from the 18th century. Good condition (a bit of thinness, a repair and some repainting, but well restored)
As for the painting by Johannes Janson exhibited in the Louvre museum, our painting is also a "typical example of retrospective pastiche - much appreciated in the 18th century. – of recognized masters of the Golden Age, the specialists in Dutch rustic landscape Potter, Adriaen van de Velde or Dujardin. Recognizable in our painting is the way Janson represents trees, and animals (the horse in particular on the left is recognizable). And also the silhouettes of his small characters painted in bright colors. This village fair is a rich composition with many characters, musicians, drummers, peasant men and women, children. The scene is very cheerful and it has the charm of the festive atmosphere of the Dutch countryside with many picturesque details represented such as the dancers with a glass or a pitcher in their hands, the dishes or baskets which circulate filled with food, the child playing with a dog or the musician with the violin who animates the assembly. The vivid colors are characteristic of Dutch 17th century genre...
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Dutch School 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Alexander The Great At The Temple Of Achilles, 18th century
By Giovanni Paolo Panini
Located in Blackwater, GB
Alexander The Great At The Temple Of Achilles, 18th century
School Of Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691-1765)
Large 18th Century Italian Old Master Architectural Capriccio of Alexander t...
Category
18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A rural landscape, a drawing partly attributed to Francois Boucher
By François Boucher
Located in PARIS, FR
Provenance:
• Bought from Sicart in Lyon by the Marquis de Chennevières (1820 - 1899) - Chennevières Collection (stamped lower left - Lugt 2072)
• Inscribed on the back of the mount "Salle 10/Delestre, 27 February 1899”
• Sold in Paris at the Hôtel Drouot during the second Chennevières sale (4 to 7 April 1900, n°44) as François Boucher - number 44 (sold for 18 francs to Roblin)
• Sold in Paris at the Hôtel Drouot, 4 and 5 March 1901, n°12 as François Boucher
Bibliography: this drawing is cited by Chennevières in "Une collection de dessins d'artistes français" (chapter XVIII, page 24-25) and is number 1033 of the Catalogue de la Collection Chennevières compiled by Louis-Antoine Prat with the collaboration of Laurence Lhinares.
This well-documented drawing was given to Boucher by the Marquis de Chennevières, one of the most important collectors of drawings at the end of the 19th century. While the landscape is reminiscent of Boucher's other landscape drawings, our drawing was probably modified at a later stage by the addition of the two figures in the right foreground and by the slight enhancement of the horizon line behind them.
1. François Boucher, the master of French rocaille
The extraordinary career of Francois Boucher was unmatched by his contemporaries in versatility, consistency, and output. For many, particularly the writers and collectors who led the revival of interest in the French rococo during the last century, his sensuous beauties and plump cupids represent the French eighteenth century at its most typical. His facility with the brush, even when betraying the occasional superficiality of his art, enabled him to master every aspect of painting – history and mythology, portraiture, landscape, ordinary life and, as part of larger compositions, even still life. He had been trained as an engraver, and the skills of a draftsman, which he imbued in the studio of Jean-Francois Cars (1661 – 1738), stood him in good stead throughout his career; his delightful drawings are one of the most sought-after aspects of his oeuvre.
As a student of Francois Lemoyne (1688 - 1737), he mastered the art of composition. The four years he spent in Italy, from 1727-1731, educated him in the works of the masters, classics, and history, that his modest upbringing had denied him.
On his return to Paris in 1734, he gained full membership of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture with his splendid Rinaldo and Armida (Paris, Musée du Louvre). Although, throughout his career, he occasionally painted subjects taken from the Bible, and would always have considered himself first as a history painter, his own repertoire of heroines, seductresses, flirtatious peasant girls and erotic beauties was better suited to a lighter, more decorative subject matter. His mastery of technique and composition enabled him to move from large scale...
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Old Masters 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Chalk
A Pair of Forest Landscapes, Philipp H. Brinckmann, 1709 – 1761, Old Master
Located in Bruges, BE
A Pair of Forest Landscapes with River and Boat in the Foreground
Brinckmann Philipp Hieronymus
Spire 1709 – 1761 Manheim
Old Master
Signature: Signed "Ph. Brinckm" bottom lower lef...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Copper
