Richard Jack

Chapelle de l’Oratoire, Avignon, circa 1900

Under The Bridge, 1956 Léon DE SMET (1881-1966) - signed 1956 Pointillist Impressionist River Landscape, oil on panel by Leon De Smet. Excellent quality and condition river scene with a small figure in a boat underneath the shade of the bridge. Signed and dated bottom right. Presented in a period frame. Measurements: 26" x 22.5" framed approx Artist Biography Léon de Smet studied, as did his brother Gustaaf, at the Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Ghent, where his mentor was Jean Joseph Delvin. Although he lived in Laethem-St-Martin between 1906 and 1913, he was not a member of the Laethem Expressionist group, being primarily influenced by Impressionism. He became a member of the Luminist Life and Light ( Vie et Lumière) Group alongside Theo van Rysselberghe. In 1914, while his brother Gustaaf was in self-imposed exile in the Netherlands after the outbreak of World War I, Léon de Smet moved to Germany. He returned to Brussels after the war and finally settled in Deurle in 1926. Spending some time in England, de Smet painted chiefly portraits of authors...

View Of Southampton From The River Itchen and Southampton Water In The Distance, circa 1800 by John Tobias Young (1755-1824) - rare early view of S...

"Village Près de la Mer en Italie" Jacques Martin-Ferrières (1893-1972) 1950s Oil on panel 18 x 14 1/2 (22 x 18.5 frame) inches Published "Intimité & Horizons" by Marie-Anne Destreb...

Donald Vogel was inspired by gardens throughout his painting career. Before moving to Dallas, as a student at the Art Institute of Chicago in the late 1930's, Vogel's studio was a block away from Chicago's Lincoln Park...