Robert Caples

High Country Pasture

Signed lower right, 'G. Bundgaard' for Gunnar Bundgaard (Danish, 1920-2005) and dated '57'. A light-filled, panoramic landscape showing Holstein cattle grazing in a grassy field beneath sun-lit clouds. This listed Danish painter first studied at Copenhagen's Gronvang School where he was particularly influenced by the romantic academic style of Niels Pederson...

Signed lower right, 'Leslie H. Van Nimwegen' (Dutch-American, born 1951) and painted circa 1990. A large oil landscape showing a group of male big...

Signed lower right, 'Charles Damrow' for Charles Damrow (American, 1916-1989) and painted circa 1940; additionally signed verso on stretcher, 'Chas. Damrow'. An idyllic, South-weste...

Signed lower right, 'Dusso' for Leon D'Usseau, Jr. (American, 1918-1991) and painted circa 1965. A substantial, Modernist oil showing a mare and foal frolicking in a deep chestnut landscape interspersed with foliage and areas of bright color. Born in Los Angeles, Leon D'Usseau began training under the guidance of his father, who was among the earliest fine-art film directors to work in Hollywood. At the age of twelve, Leon was drawing seriously and, at fifteen, received a working scholarship at Chouinard School of Art where he studied under Merrill Gage and Alexander Archipenko. At this early age, he was also employed by Chouinard to teach a line-drawing class. Adopting the anglicized brush-name of Dusso, he exhibited widely and with success including at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1937-40), the California Palace Legion of Honor (1941), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1942), the Laguna Festival of Arts, Los Angeles Artists Association (1945), the California Watercolor Society (1946) and the Audubon Association (1945). Leon Dusso...

Signed lower left, 'Frank A. Brown' for Frank Arthur Brown (American, 1876-1962) and dated 1938. Titled, verso, on stretcher bar, 'Algerian Street', additionally signed, 'Frank A Bro...

Chinese School, 20th century; After Ren Renfa (Qinglongzhen, 1255-1328). Signed center right in Chinese with artist chop mark for 'Yueshan Daoren' 月山道人, brush name for Ren Renfa. (Qinglongzhen [now Qingpu, Songjiang, Shanghai Municipality], b.1255; d. 1328). Chinese painter. Under the Yuan dynasty (1279–1368) he became an official, rising to the level of Vice-President of the River Conservation Bureau. He was famous for his paintings of horses, which were much admired by both his Mongol and Chinese patrons. In horse painting he followed in the tradition of the Song-period (960–1279) artist Li Gonglin, which was characterized by use of the ‘iron-wire’ line and a minimum of shading. Ultimately, however, Ren’s style can be traced to the Tang (ad 618–907) painters Yan Liben and Han Gan. Ren’s earliest surviving painting is dated 1280, indicating that he was a mature artist by his mid-twenties. Although he worked as an official under the alien Mongol emperors, he was capable of paintings that incorporated clear political messages. The most famous is Fat and Lean Horses (Beijing, Pal. Mus.), in which, according to his inscription, the fat horse...

Josep Ventosa Domenech (1897-1982) - Navarcles - Oil on panel Oil measurements 16x22 cm. Frame measurements 31x37 cm.

A wonderful image of an English country cottage set in a meadow with cattle grazing. Franklin White (1892-1975) A cottage in the countryside Signed with initials and dated (19)32 Oi...

A really appealing view of the English countryside in the springtime with rolling hills, cattle grazing in lush pasture and a windmill off in the distance. George Graham (1881-1949)...

A lovely, impressionistic oil of ducks in the sunshine in a Norfolk broads landscape. Frederick George Cotman (1850-1920) Acle Bridge, circa 1915 Inscribed verso Oil on board 10 x 16 inches Provenance: Cotman family collection Frederick George Cotman was born in Ipswich on 14 August 1850. His uncle, John Sell Cotman, was one of the cornerstones of the Norwich school and a very influential watercolourist. Frederick's first tuition came from William Griffiths, headmaster of Ipswich School of Art. In 1868 he enlisted at the Royal Academy Schools and his proficiency as a draughtsman and painter in oils and watercolours was rewarded with four silver and a gold medal for The Death of Eucles now at the Ipswich Town Hall. His teachers in London were Frederick Leighton (1830-1896) and Henry Tanworth Wells (1828-1903). Cotman became established as a London society portrait painter, for which he could command a fee of 300 guineas and also produced homely genre scenes. Elected a member of both the Royal Institute of Painters in...

The last ray. 2023. Canvas, cardboard, oil, 17x23 cm Warm summer evening landscape with stork in small town in Latvia, Erberge. Small size plein air painting Alyona Prokofyeva (198...

Windmill. Middle of 1940s, oil on cardboard, 54x65 cm Harijs Veldre (Bullis till 1947) (1927.8.III – 1999.6.V) Harijs Veldre learned in Riga school of applied arts (1942 – 43), in s...