Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings

Landscapes with Views of Ancient Rome is an original pair of oil on canvas realized in the Second Half 19th Century. Mixed colored oil on canvas, mounted on panel. Minor damage to ...

Work on canvas Empire frame in gilded wood 28.2 x 37 x 4 cm

Edmund Coates (1816 - 1871) America, 1861 Oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, New York Private Collection This 1861 painting shows deep symbolism with a sled reading "America" slipping down a hill. A versatile nineteenth-century painter, Edmund C. Coates created landscapes, seascapes, portraits, and history paintings. Born in England, Coates spent his adult life in New York City, where he was a frequent exhibitor at the National Academy of Design. Working in the style of the Hudson River School, Coates produced beautiful, idealized images of the lakes and mountains of the Hudson River Valley and the White Mountains of New Hampshire, as well as romantic visions of ancient Italian ruins. He was closer in dates to the second generation of the Hudson River school, which included Frederic Edwin...

"The River Cottage" British School, 19th century follower of John Constable oil painting on board, framed painting: 12.5 x 12.5 inches fram...

American School, Mid-19th Century The Clipper Mary Lee in High Seas Oil on canvas Unsigned 25 x 35 inches

Alfred S. Wall (American, 1825-1896) Untitled (Building the Railroad), 1859 Oil on canvas 14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches Signed and dated lower left For Christmas, 2008, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette featured Alfred Wall's painting, Old Saw Mill from the collection of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, PA. It was painted in 1851 in the town of Lilly, Pennsylvania in the Allegheny Mountains. The newspaper description stated that "though the saw mill is long gone, it still conveys all the warmth and coziness of this time of year. The article, written by Patricia Lowry, continued: At first glance, Alfred S. Wall's painting of a saw mill in snowy woods triggers nostalgia for the coziness of a log cabin, the smell of a wood-burning fire and the warming of chilled hands and feet beside it. But as sentimental as it seems on the surface, Mr. Wall's painting has a deeper and unexpected context. This is more than a painting about sled-riding children and early industry planted in the middle of virgin forest. Intended or not, this is a painting about conquering the great divide of the Allegheny Mountains. For the third consecutive year, the Post-Gazette features a winter-scene painting on the cover of the Christmas Day newspaper. This year's painting, Old Saw Mill, was selected by co-publisher and editor-in-chief John Robinson Block and executive editor David Shribman during a visit to the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg. Mr. Wall, listed as a portrait painter in the 1850 census, was about 26 when he painted Old Saw Mill in 1851. The self-taught artist was born in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, to William and Lucy Wall, who'd emigrated from England around 1820. An artistic sensibility ran in the family: William was a sculptor who carved ornate tombstones here; Alfred's children, A. Bryan and Bessie, were landscape painters, as was Alfred's older brother, William Coventry Wall. For more than a century the Walls formed a prominent art dynasty in Pittsburgh, and Alfred, eventually a partner in the city's most prestigious art gallery, was well known as a painter, dealer and restorer. In Old Saw Mill, two wood cutters, each holding an axe, meet outside the mill; one points in the direction of the forest. On the other side of the stream, one child pulls another down the hillside on a sled. Just behind the hill's slope, the roof of a building appears, perhaps the home of the sawyer. The luminous, late afternoon light comes from the northwest, casting lengthening shadows on the snow under a darkening sky. The saw mill in "Old Saw Mill" likely would have been impossible to track down had Mr. Wall, presumably, not written on the back of the painting: "old saw mill near Jct. 4, Portage RR, Pa." "There was no Junction 4," said Mike Garcia, park ranger at the Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, about 90 miles east of Pittsburgh near Gallitzen, Cambria County. "But there was an Inclined Plane No. 4 at Lilly, and there was a saw mill there." In fact, there were at least six saw mills at Lilly over the years, said longtime resident Jim Salony, president of the Lilly-Washington Historical Society. But when he saw an image of the painting, Mr. Salony had no trouble coming up with a location. While there are no known photographs of the saw mill, he believes it stood near the intersection of Portage and Washington streets, next to Bear Rock Run. Mr. Salony, retired academic dean at Mount Aloysius College, didn't know exactly when the mill was torn down, but it's been gone since at least the late 1800s. He was pleased to learn of the painting, even though that knowledge came too late for inclusion in a new book about Lilly, The Spirit of a Community, for which he served as primary author and editor. It runs to more than 700 pages. For a little town -- population 869 last year -- Lilly has a lot of history. Nestled in a bowl on the western slope of the Allegheny Mountains about 3 miles south of Cresson, Lilly was first settled in 1806 by Joseph Meyer and his family, who named their 332-acre land patent Dundee. Although the Meyers had left by 1811, other settlers followed, but the community didn't flourish until the 1830s, when the Allegheny Portage Railroad began its 23-year-run through the town. For 200 years the Alleghenies had stood as an impediment to trade and travel between Pittsburgh and the east. A canal from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh would change that and compete with New York's Erie Canal. But a portage railroad would have to be built, on which teams of horses would lead the canal boats over the mountains. Engineer Sylvester Welch began his surveying from the small settlement at Lilly. The railroad would require 10 inclined planes, some quite steep, between Hollidaysburg and Johnstown. To build it, trees had to be cut along a 120-foot-wide right-of-way for 36 miles, along which track and engine houses had to be built. William Brown, who owned the saw mill on Bear Rock Run, built at least one of the engine houses at Inclined Plane No. 4; an 1834 contract also included fencing the dwelling lots at the head and foot of the plane. Lilly is located at what was the foot of Inclined Plane No. 4., giving the community one of its early informal names, Foot of Four. Named in 1883 for Richard Lilly, who'd completed the grist mill there, Lilly had another early name: Hemlock, so dubbed by a Portage Railroad traveler who smelled the bark stripped from the trees at the saw mill. Because there isn't another Allegheny Portage Railroad location like it, where a cut in the mountains opens into a bowl, Mr. Salony thinks it was Lilly that Charles Dickens wrote about following his trip from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh on the Pennsylvania Canal in late March 1842, describing what he saw after emerging from "the bottom of the cut": "It was very pretty while traveling, to look down into a valley full of light and softness, catching glimpses through the tree-tops of scattered cabins; children running to the doors; dogs bursting out to bark, who we could see without hearing; terrified pigs scampering homeward; families sitting out in their rude gardens; cows gazing upward with a stupid indifference; men in their shirt-sleeves looking on at their unfinished houses, planning out to-morrow's work; and we riding onward, high above them, like a whirlwind." To get to Lilly, Mr. Wall may have taken the Pennsylvania Canal from his home in Allegheny City, now the North Side. He'd married young, at 21, to Sarah Carr in 1846, the same year he began his career as an artist. By 1880 they were living in a brick townhouse at 104 (later 814) Arch St., now demolished. Across the river in Pittsburgh he shared a studio at 67 Fourth Ave. with his brother William; they later moved to Burke's Building, today the city's oldest office building at 209-211 Fourth. But often they worked outdoors, sometimes as part of the colony of artists that grew up around painter George Hetzel beginning in the late 1860s at Scalp Level...

A classic and elegant Venetian view with a period Barbizon, gold leaf frame! Sheppard did a series of these and two other American painter is more noted for their Venetian views than...

A mid 19th Century oil on canvas of horses and their drover. The painting is signed MM, dated 1849 and carries a signature to the stretcher Marie Munch. The painting is presented in ...

Artist/ School: English School, 19th century Title: Cattle Watering from Woodland Pool Medium: oil painting on canvas, framed Size: painting: 16 x 24 inches, frame: 18.75 x 26.7...

Julius Montalant (1823 - 1898) Harbour of Rio Janeiro, 1843-1850 Oil on canvas 17 x 24 inches Signed and dated lower right; conservator's inscription on the reverse Born in Virginia, probably Norfolk, Julius Montalant is known for his drawings and paintings inspired by his travels on board navy ships. Attached to the USS St. Louis around 1844-45, he sketched ports of call he visited, including Brazil, Chile, New Zealand, Australia, and China. Many of his works are held in the Museum of the U.S. Naval Academy. Navy records indicate his rank as 'C. Clerk', which may mean that he held a civilian position. During the 1850s he lived in Philadelphia, and in 1851-61 he exhibited at the Philadelphia Art Union and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Included were paintings of North America, Greece...

Artwork on canvas Wooden frame and gilded plaster 58 x 69.5 x 7 cm

Adolph Schreyer (1828 - 1899) Arab Scouts, n.d. Oil on canvas 33 3/4 x 56 inches Signed lower right Housed in an exceptional period American handcarved frame Provenance: Sheridan Art Gallery, Chicago Private Collection, Chicago Traffic Club of Chicago Schreyer expert Dr. Christoph Andreas has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work. With the increase in travel by steamship and the political involvement of European powers in North Africa and the Middle East in the nineteenth century, paintings depicting the scenery, daily life, and customs of North African and Middle Eastern people became an object of fascination among European and American audiences. The German artist Christian Adolf Schreyer...

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Artist/ School: Title: Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed Size: canvas: 18 x 30 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: The painting is in overall very go...

Artist/ School/ Date: Douglas Stuart Allen (American/ French 1923-2021) American born artist from Chicago, retiring to France during his latter years to become a full time painter. ...

English 19th century Folk art portrait of Chickens, landscape with maple frame A wonderful and well-painted piece of rare English Folk Art. The scene is of a group of Chickens in an extensive landscape pecking at their food on the ground. This style was very popular during the early Victorian period and all barnyard animals were painted by these folk art painters, with most of the painters never signing their work. This is a very good example of what are now very rare subjects to find. It is framed in an Antique Maple frame...

Émile-Pierre Metzmacher (French, 1815 - 1890) A Young Beauty Crossing a Brook, A Hunter Beyond Oil on panel 24 x 19 1/2 inches Signed lower left Provenance: Christie's New York, Oct...

Mid 19th Century oil on canvas view of a Swiss valley and mountainscape by Alexander Calame. The painting is signed bottom left. The canvas is on a fine stretcher with 'keys'. The painting has been in a private collection in the North of France since the early 20th Century. A very beautiful and expert rendition of one of Calame's iconic Swiss mountain views. Atmospheric view of light and shade, a moody sky with the sun just breaking through over a small mountain cottage retreat. Alex Calame was born in Corsier-sur-Vevey, today a part of Vevey, Switzerland. He was the son of a skillful marble worker in Vevey, but because his father lost the family fortune, Calame could not concentrate on art, but rather he was forced to work in a bank from the age of 15. When his father fell from a building and then died, it was up to the young Calame to provide for his mother. In his spare time he began to practice drawing small views of Switzerland. In 1829 he met his patron, the banker Diodati, who made it possible for him to study under landscape painter François Diday. After a few months he decided to devote himself fully to art. In 1835 he began exhibiting his Swiss-Alps and forest paintings in Paris and Berlin. He became well known, especially in Germany. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. In 1842 he went to Paris and displayed his works Mont Blanc, the Jungfrau, the Brienzersee, the Monte Rosa and Mont Cervin. He taught in Geneva, where Adolf Mosengel was one of his pupils as were some of the children of the Russian Imperial family of Nicholas I. Alexandre Calame...

A very well painted classic English Folk art painting of figured playing by the pond with ducks and a rural cottage. This style of painting would Im sure have been painted by a cou...

An charming 19th century dog painting depicting a mother dogue and her exuberant topsy turvy pups by the farmhouse barns or cowsheds , with a young child given them a fuss! Dating from ca 1860-70, the oil on canvas is unsigned, but bears on the verso a rather special stamp from colour and artists supplies merchant Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922). Paul Durand-Ruel is known as the legendary art dealer who launched, almost single handedly, the Impressionist movement. He represented Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir in his Paris, London and New York Galleries. Like his father Jean Marie Durand, Durand Ruel had started as both a merchant of art supplies, and dealer. Often, these two activities overlapped, as he would supply cash strapped artists who left paintings as security. Paul Durand Ruel was one of the first to discover Barbizon artist...

Circle of Emile Jean Horace Vernet (1789-1863) The Capture of the Smalah of Abd el Kader oil on canvas 48 x 55 1/2 in; 121 x 141 cms (including magnificent contemporary carved frame) Provenance Private collection, United States This important and impressive work records the historic skirmish in 1843 between a cavalry unit lead by the duc de Aumale and the Arab chief Abd el Kader during the French military campaign in Algeria. The painting is attributed to Horace Vernet, and relates closely to a major work of the same subject by Vernet now in the Musée de l'Histoire de France in Versailles. The work is a classic example of French Orientalist painting...

Artist/ School/ Date: Douglas Stuart Allen (American/ French 1923-2021) American born artist from Chicago, retiring to France during his latter ye...

Edward Williams, born in London in the 1781, was an English landscape painter during the Victorian era. He had six sons, who became well-known landscape painters as well. He came fr...

BARON Dominique (19th Century) The Ladies and the dove Oil on canvas signed Low Right Old frame gilded with leaves Dim canvas : 59 X 75 cm Dim frame : ...

A fine New York landscape with cows by American artist Emile Faure Beaulieu (b. 1828, actively exhibiting in the 1850-1860’s). Beaulieu was known as...

This beautiful oil-on-panel painting of a tranquil waterfront farm that is over 120 years old is by the Belgian painter Louis Dubois (1830–1880). Dubois...

Venetian harbor scene with St Marks in the background oil on oak panel. Exceptional quality. Signed illegibly lower left. From an old Philadelphia collection.

The Venetian Backwater British School, c. 1850's circle of Joseph Mallord William Turner (British 1775-1851) oil painting on panel, framed panel: 23cm x 18cm Very fine quality period British oil painting, depicting this quiet Venetian backwater canal. Painted with delightful light...

Well painted and very interesting composition attributed to the English landscape painter john Frederick Tennant. His work is very similar to ...

Artist/ School/ Date: Douglas Stuart Allen (American/ French 1923-2021) American born artist from Chicago, retiring to France during his latter years to become a full time painter. Title: Windmill Landscape Medium & Size: oil painting canvas: 18 x 22 inches Condition: the painting is very sound and good. Provenance: private collection, France The painting is for auction with...

Well painted and very unique oil on a card of an English town landscape with figures, soldier, monument, and a boy on his way to a school with a hoop and stick. Possible painted for...

Alexandre Marie Guillemin French, 1817-1880 Scene de Chasse Oil on Panel 9 by 12in. w/frame 17 ½ by 20 ½in. Signed lower right He studied with Baron Gros. He exhibited at the Salo...

Signed impressionist riverscape oil on panel dated 1863 by sought after French painter Paul Camille Guigou. The piece depicts a view of the river i...

A rare mid 19th Century watercolor depicting Native Americans approaching a fort. The subjects appear to be from a Northern Plains Tribes, and arre approaching a palisades style f...

Hubner is a German artist born in Hermsdorf, Germany in 1943. Hubner studied commercial graphic arts in Amsterdam. He was a member of the Internal Arts Guild in Monte Carlo since 1...

Artist/ School/ Date: Douglas Stuart Allen (American/ French 1923-2021) American born artist from Chicago, retiring to France during his latter years to become a full time painter. ...

Artist/ School/ Date: Douglas Stuart Allen (American/ French 1923-2021) American born artist from Chicago, retiring to France during his latter years to become a full time painter. Title: Vibrant Poppies Medium & Size: oil painting canvas: 20 x 24 inches Condition: the painting is very sound and good. Provenance: private collection, France The painting is for auction with no...

Jacques Alfred Brielman (1836-1892) French. A Landscape with Cattle and a Dog in a Rural Lane, Oil on Canvas, Signed, Unframed 15" x 23" (38 x 58.5cm) condition: overall very good,...

JOAQUÍN DOMÍNGUEZ BÉCQUER Spanish, 1817 - 1879 THE CARD GAME signed, located & dated "Joaq. D. Becquer. Sevilla - 1849." (lower left) oil on ...

Oil on canvas, not signed. Venitian School Mid XIX century. Framed, dim: 94x125 cm.

JOAQUÍN DOMÍNGUEZ BÉCQUER Spanish, 1817 - 1879 OUTSIDE THE TAVERN signed, located & dated "Joaq. D. Becquer. Sevilla 1849." (lower right) oil...

Wonderful English 19th century Fall landscape, with a figure on a pathway passing sone Elm or Oak trees. This piece is signed lower right and is framed in a Vintage American Gold Le...

19th Century Oil Portrait of Two Sisters With Their Dog c.1870 Outstanding antique oil portrait on wooden panel of two fashionably dressed sisters picking flowers as they walk their...

Path by the sea. 1869. Oil on Canvas, 31x53 cm

The River Crossing by Richard Sebastian Bond (British 1808-1886), signed and dated 1864 oil painting on canvas: 20 x 30 inches framed: 25 x 35 inches condition: very good and presentable in swept gilt frame provenance: private collection, England A lovely Victorian oil painting on canvas, dating to the 1860's. The painting depicts this Highland landscape with a mother and her children...

JOAQUÍN DOMÍNGUEZ BÉCQUER Spanish, 1817 - 1879 DANCERS IN A COURTYARD signed, located & dated "Joaq. D. Becquer. Sevilla 1849." (lower right)...

Artist/ School/ Date: Douglas Stuart Allen (American/ French 1923-2021) American born artist from Chicago, retiring to France during his latter years to become a full time painter. Title: River Landscape Medium & Size: oil painting canvas: 19.5 x 24 inches Condition: the painting is very sound and good. Provenance: private collection, France The painting is for auction with no...

An English River Landscape by EDWIN BUTTERY (1839-1908) Oil on canvas. Total size including picture and frame: 35cm x 43cm x 6cm Clearly signed and dated 1869 A Nineteenth Century ...

Oil on canvas attributed Rousseau-Decelle, French painter of the XIXth century. Student of Bouguereau and Ferrier In 1903, the artist whose studio is located at 235 rue du Faubourg ...

Late 19th century French School, unsigned and painted circa 1860. Oil on artist prepared panel. A late 19th century oil landscape, painted in the style of Jean-François Millet, show...

A pair of oil on panel paintings featuring the "Farm in Autumn" and "A Fisherman in the Mountains". Autumn initialed 'D' lower right and The Fisherman s...

David Hardy was an English genre painter who exhibited from 1855 -1870 in various English galleries such as the British Institute, the Suffolk Street Gallery, and one example at the ...

Wonderful German mid 19th century Mountain lake landscape with figures harvesting the corn. J.Klee was a landscape painter during the middle of the 19th century in Germany. He mostly painted rural scenes often with people going about their daily work. This is one such example! He was very skilled in painting great light in his paintings and along with a well-choisen composition he was able to paint a very desirable painting. This piece is framed in its original German hand...

Carl Martin Western Mountain Landscape Watercolor Painting c.1970 Outstanding watercolor signed Carl Martin Original watercolor on paper ...

JOAQUÍN DOMÍNGUEZ BÉCQUER Spanish, 1817 - 1879 RIDERS PASSING BY A TAVERN signed, located & dated "Joaq. D. Becquer. Sevilla, 1847." (lower l...

John Rogers Herbert RA 1810- 1890 Oil on canvas, dated '1850' lower right on sword strap Image size: 33 ½ x 23 ½ inches Gilt Watts frame This striking painting, depicts David as a y...

19th Century French school, Two italian women in a landscape, oil on canvas 59 x 43.5 cm Bears a signature and a date on the lower left (see photograph please) but barely lisible ...

Artist/ School: Paul BRET (French, 1902-1956), signed Paul Bret was one of the first French twentieth century artists to work in Greece. He had a studio in ...