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Jean-jacques Philippon, Place Du Théâtre, Oil On Canvas Large Format
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Jean-Jacques PHILIPPON (1920)
Place du théâtre.
Oil on canvas, signed lower right.
Some cracks, very small paint losses, some dirt.
65 x 92 cm
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Manhattan Towers (East River)
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Signed lower left: Cucuel Signed and inscribed on verso: Cucuel / Manhattan Towers (East River)
Provenance
Private collection, Massachusetts
Born in San Francisco in 1875, Edward C...
Category
20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Summer Stroll, The Pantheon, Paris, France, Impressionist Oil, Ladies, Parasol
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Edouard Henry-Laurent was born in Paris in 1859. He exhibited in avant-garde galleries including Le Barc de Boutteville in 1894, 1896 and 1897, then at the Salon d'Automne in 1903 an...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
New Orleans Street Scene
Located in New York, NY
Henry Martin Gasser depicts a man walking down a New Orleans sidewalk past the facades of two buildings, while a woman cleans a porch above and an...
Category
1950s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Archival Paper, Watercolor
Le Théâtre du Vaudeville (à Paris, France) /// French Post-Impressionism Street
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Édouard Léon Cortès (French, 1882-1969)
Title: "Le Théâtre du Vaudeville (à Paris, France)"
Series: Théâtre du Vaudeville
*Signed by Cortès lower left
Circa: 1950
Medium: Ori...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Place De La Bastille By Edouard Léon Cortès
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edouard Léon Cortès
1882-1969 French
Place de la Bastille
Signed “Edouard Cortès” (lower left)
Oil on canvas
A glowing warmth radiates from this bustling street scene by the reno...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
No Trolley, No Bus, No Ferry, 1992
Located in New York, NY
Alec Montroy paints a New York City street beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, while snow falls and blankets the street and the rooftops of the buildings on either side in his oil painting,...
Category
20th Century Pointillist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Johnny’s Italian Restaurant
Located in New York, NY
Alec Montroy’s painting “Johnny’s Italian Restaurant” is a characteristic example of his pointillist style and fascination with New York City scenes, depicting patrons huddling benea...
Category
20th Century Pointillist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Empire State Building
Located in New York, NY
Alec Montroy, in his pointillist work, “Empire State Building,” paints the cupolas of the Empire State Building and other Manhattan skyscrapers illuminated by a breaking dawn.
Category
20th Century Pointillist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Duffy-San Square
Located in New York, NY
In his oil painting, “Duffy-San Square,” Alec Montroy paints a view of Times Square on a snowy night while figures crowd the streets and illuminated advertisements tower above.
Category
20th Century Pointillist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Came the Dawn
Located in New York, NY
Alec Montroy paints a lone figure walking down an empty city street between the marquees of Broadway theaters as gray pre-dawn light diffuses across the sky in his artwork entitled, ...
Category
20th Century Pointillist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jared Coffin House, Broad St.
By Li Xiao
Located in Greenwich, CT
Li Xiao was born in 1957 in Shanghai, China. Xiao commenced showing interest in the fine arts at a very young age and has been consistently developing his talent as a painter ever si...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Federal Street in Early Fall
By Li Xiao
Located in Greenwich, CT
Li Xiao was born in 1957 in Shanghai, China. Xiao commenced showing interest in the fine arts at a very young age and has been consistently developing his talent as a painter ever si...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
British Original Impressionist Watercolor English Town Market Place Square
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Old Market Place
by Anthony Avery (British 1946-2023) * see notes below
original watercolor on artists paper, unframed
paper dimensions: 11 x 15 inches
condition: very good and r...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
My Only Working Tool
Located in Los Angeles, CA
My Only Working Tool, 1949, oil on panel, signed and dated lower right, 16 x 12 inches, remnant of exhibition label verso, exhibited at the Art News Second Annual National Amateur Competition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY, December, 1950 (see The Best Amateurs, Art News, volume 49, issue 8, December 6 to 20, 1950, p. 65 – 66), presented in a period frame
Fausto Sansone...
Category
1940s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Cestello by Night
Located in Firenze, FI
Uliviero Ulivieri - Born in Florence, Italy in 1934, this perennially youthful artist has a sweet and slightly shy aspect. He has absorbed from his c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Centre Street, Nantucket
Located in Greenwich, CT
Polish, b. 1949
Pawlowski was born in 1949 in Poland. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1979 he was awarded his "authorization and certification" by the Ministry of Arts and Culture in Warsaw. This recognition is the ultimate achievement for Polish artists. Immediately after reaching this stature, Jan was in demand for numerous individual and collective exhibitions.
From 1981 through part of 1988, he worked throughout Europe. During this time period he was invited to exhibit in Switzerland and in England where he had a one-man show. His travels brought him to the United States for a short vacation that has turned into his newfound home.
His work was particularly well received in Michigan where he had three one-man shows, two of which were in Grosse Pointe and Harbor Springs...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Interior - Stairs 1
Located in Milano, MI
Urbex is the English acronym for urban exploration and is an activity that consists of searching for and locating abandoned infrastructure with the goal of visiting, photographing an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Sandstone
Joyces
Located in Belfast, GB
Joyces
Oil on Canvas
36 x 46 cm
14 1/8 x 18 1/8 in
"Growing up in the countryside, he developed a great love and appreciation for the beauty of nature around him, which evidently in...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Road into Town
Located in Greenwich, CT
b. 1960
Elizabeth Higgins describes herself as an abstract figurative and landscape painter. Everything around her serves as a potential subject, an inspiration to begin a painting....
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"CALLE DE SANTILLANA" SANTANDER ESPANA
Located in San Antonio, TX
Jose Vives-Atsara
(1919-2004)
San Antonio Artist
Image Size: 32 x 40
Frame Size: 39.5 x 47.5
Medium: Oil applied by palette knife
"Calle De Santillana" Santander Espana
Biography
Jose Vives-Atsara (1919-2004)
His list of Pallbearers says it all. They were not just buyers of his art they were some of his closest friends.
Pallbearers: E. Glenn Biggs, James M. Cavender, III, Tom C. Frost, Jr., James W. Gorman, Jr., George B. Irish, Joseph R. Krier, Robert L. Mooney and H. Bartell Zachry, Jr.
Jose Vives-Atsara was born April 13, 1919, in Villafranca del Penedes near Barcelona, Spain. A native Spaniard, he developed a love of painting at an early age, and by age 11 had committed himself to becoming an artist. He studied at Colegio de San Ramon and had his first one-person show at age 14.
The Spanish Civil interrupted his idyllic young life as he was forced to serve in the Communist Army, and then was imprisoned, suffering many hardships.
Soon after the war he married Emilia Hill Domenech, and in 1947 set out to move with his wife and child aboard a tramp steamer to the United States. Unfortunately, immigration quotas did not allow them to move directly to the United States, and it was eight years before they achieved that goal. During this interim before obtaining temporary visas, he and his family lived first, in Caracas, Venezuela and then in Mexico City, Mexico.
The family settled in San Antonio, Texas, where he had made friends on a previous visit. He and his wife and children gained citizenship in time for their first Christmas in the United States. He became such an exemplary immigrant citizen that officials of the U.S. District Court for the Western District Court regularly invited him to share his thoughts and advice for living in America with newly naturalized citizens
Vives-Atsara also developed a close relationship with the Incarnate Word College, becoming, over the years, both a professor of art, and Artist in Residence. As a painter, he depicted many local scenes including San Antonio missions and the San Antonio River. For special guests such as Pope John Paul II, heads of state, and royalty from foreign countries, he was commissioned to provide paintings as gifts.
His paintings were also commissioned for Frost Bank and the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce. For his vibrant oil paintings, he used only nine colors, mixed in a variety of ways. They have been described as both realistic and impressionistic.
"Vives-Atsara believed that art is a reflection of the artist's soul, if this is true; his paintings reflect a beautiful, bright spirit." (Richardson) Jose Vives-Atsara died in San Antonio on January 13, 2004 and is buried there in Sunset Memorial Park Mausoleum.
Jose Vives-Atsara was born in Vilafranca del Panades in the Catalonian region of Spain on April 30, 1919. As a small boy he loved to sketch with pencil and paper. He began painting at the age of eleven. His first one-man show came at the ripe old age of fourteen. From that time on, painting has been his love and his way of life.
Jose studied art at Saint Raymond College and School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. He is quick to admit that his most inspirational teacher has been nature itself.
Mr. Vives-Atsara came to San Antonio in 1956 where he has established his art career. His use of a palette knife in painting allows him to blend rich pure pigments to achieve his goal of creating a powerful statement of color directly on the canvas. This style is intended to produce works that are distinctively 'Vives-Atsara'.
Vives-Atsara is represented in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, Spain; Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas; His Royal Highness Juan Carlos...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
A view of a street in San Remo - Jacques Carabain (1834 - 1933)
Located in Gent, BE
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right: "J. Carabin, 1886"
Also with a label on the back.
In Jacques Carabain's painting, the Concattedrale di San Siro emerges as a timeless beacon amidst the historic tapestry of San Remo's Via Palma van La Pigna. The canvas unveils a captivating vista, capturing the architectural grandeur of the cathedral framed...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boulevard Magenta, Place De La République By Edouard Léon Cortès
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edouard Léon Cortès
1882-1969 | French
Boulevard Magenta, Place de la République
Signed “Edouard Cortès” (lower right)
Oil on canvas
Celebrated as the “Parisian Poet of Painting,”...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Bridges, 1981
By Arthur Cohen
Located in New York, NY
Arthur Cohen paints two long bridges stretching into Manhattan in his acrylic painting entitled “The Bridges, 1981.”
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Big News is Always on 42nd Street
Located in New York, NY
Alec Montroy depicts a group of figures standing on a street corner a few blocks from Times Square in his work entitled “ The Big News is Always on 42nd S...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
December 25th
Located in New York, NY
In his artwork entitled, “December 25th,” Alec Montroy paints a New York City street blanked with snow but illuminated still by the numerous neon signs ab...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Docklands, Belfast
Located in Belfast, GB
Docklands, Belfast, 2023
Oil on Board
24 x 72 in
61 x 182.9 cm
"Painting is trial and error, somewhere between this there is a balance in which a painting will work." - Verner Finlay...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lindy’s
Located in New York, NY
In this artwork by Alec Montroy entitled “Lindy’s,” the artist paints the iconic Times Square in New York City and the numerous electronic signs above it.
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Beef & Lobster
Located in Belfast, GB
Beef & Lobster
Oil on Canvas
18 x 28 in
45.7 x 71.1 cm
"Growing up in the countryside, he developed a great love and appreciation for the beauty of nature around him, which evidentl...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Newport, 1884
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated lower left: Theo Wendel 84
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Train Station in Snow
By Hayley Lever
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower left: Hayley Lever
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Leo Van Der Smissen, Dendermonde 1900 – 1966 Bruges, Belgian Painter, Autumn
Located in Bruges, BE
Van Der Smissen Leo
Dendermonde 1900 – 1966 Bruges
Belgian Painter
Autumn in Bruges – Gruuthusebrug
Signature: Signed bottom left
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Image size 50 x 70 cm
Biography: Van der Smissen Leo was born in Dendermonde on June 20, in 1900. He lived in Bruges, and he was a Belgian painter and one of important Bruges School artists. His brother Frans Van der Smissen (1894-1964) was a sculptor.
Leo was a painter of town views, sturdy of trees, landscapes, church interiors, still lifes, marines, interiors, portraits, and some nudes. He acts as a colourist, who practices sobriety. His preference, woodland scenes, a genre in which he has climbed to a solid refinement, particularly specific are the depiction of the tree trunks.
His works, brushed concisely and boldly, betray a strong hand that bends the colour ranges to his will and he can adapt to all kinds of subjects.
Leo studied at the Bruges Academy of Fine Arts (1913 – 1919) with master teacher and artist Flori Van Acker and won several first prizes there. He studied also at Ghent Academy of Fine Arts (1920 – 1921) with master teachers Godron and Karel Tremerie and later at Dendermonde Academy of Fine Arts (1923 – 1924).
Initially strongly influenced by the style of Courtens and the Dendermonde School, under the guidance of painter Ferdinand Willaert he evolved towards to Luminism.
In 1930 Leo was married and had three daughters, two children died in early age. Leo van der...
Category
Early 20th Century Pointillist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Pont Neuf à Paris
Located in London, GB
Alexandre Jacobs tranquil and subtle landscapes show a masterful evocation of light, atmosphere and colour, transporting the viewer into the peaceful countryside of rural France. He ...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Snow Flurry, St Martin's, Stamford
Located in London, GB
Dedicated to working outdoors, Peter van Breda’s enthusiasm for painting is driven by his excitement at capturing the light, mood and atmosphere of a s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Evening Light towards Battersea Bridge, London
Located in London, GB
Dedicated to working outdoors, Peter van Breda’s enthusiasm for painting is driven by his excitement at capturing the light, mood and atmosphere of a s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
York Minster by Night
Located in London, GB
Oil on Canvas
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Miner Hillard Milling Company
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: G.W. Sotter; on verso: MINER HILLARD / MILLING Co.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Daybreak" - house painting - architecture - suburbs - plein-air
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting features hues of blue, pink and green.
David Boyd is inspired by the work of Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and Winslow Homer.
David Boyd’s latest selection of paintings...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Entering Provincetown
Located in Provincetown, MA
Julian Cardinal brings oil to canvas with a unique technique that consists of loose brush strokes and muted hues that a prominent gallery rep once called “retro vintage Impressionism...
Category
2010s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Middle Eastern Building Painting
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Mid Century acrylic on canvas painting of a Middle Eastern Street scene executed with bold impressionistic brush strokes. Depicting exotic Architecture ...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"From Above" - Impressionist Plein Air Landscape Painting, Country Road
Located in Atlanta, GA
"From Above" is a plein air landscape painting featuring red, blue and grey hues. This work is in a frame measuring 18.5 by 22.5 inches.
David Boyd is insp...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Union Square, Winter (Washington Monument)
By Theodore Robinson
Located in New York, NY
As one of the first, and most important, American Impressionists, Theodore Robinson helped to introduce the French style to American artists and audiences.
Category
19th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Venice, San Marco Place
Located in Paris, FR
Pierre Boudet est un artiste peintre et lithographe français né le 27 janvier 1915 à Versailles, mort en 2010 à Paris.
BIOGRAPHIE
Pierre Boudet est élèv...
Category
Late 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cornwall Bridge
By Eric Sloane
Located in New York, NY
Cornwall Bridge
Oil on canvas
30 ½ x 24 ¾ inches unframed (77.47 x 62.865 cm)
Signed and inscribed (Cornwall Bridge Conn) on reverse
Description:
Eric Sloane is best known for his illustrations of "americana," and, throughout his life, devoted himself to painting this American world. This painting, titled "Cornwall Bridge," is included in one of his travel books...
Category
20th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Balloons over Manhattan
By Shay Kun
Located in Jerusalem, IL
A beautiful painting by Israeli artist Shay Kun.
Featuring a colorful display of hot air balloons floating above Manhattan.
Category
2010s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
25th Street
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
25th Street, by Elise Zoller, 24 x 30 in. oil on panel.
Elise Zoller has recently embarked on a series of plein air paintings of sites around Salt Lake City and in the smaller towns of Utah from Hurricane to Huntsville. She has enjoyed meeting people along the road and learning about the history of the state.
“Plein air work can be physically demanding, but there is no substitute for working from life. Light and shadow dance in subtle ways a photograph cannot capture. Even the wind and the fragrances it carries inform the work. Scenes come alive when you stand in one place for a few hours. You’ve got to get to know a spot,” Elise says.
“While I work, all manner of people come up and talk to me about their towns and their lives. I’ve met a downwinder from Enterprise, pie bakers in Veyo, pony cart...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Paintings
Materials
Birch, Linen, Oil
Lake Street
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lake Street, c. 1920 -30s, oil on board, 12 x 9 inches, signed lower right and verso, titled verso
About the Painting
At the center of Oscar Daniel Soellner’s Lake Street, we see the stairway leading to an elevated railway station on what is now Chicago’s Green Line route. When its first section opened in 1893 as the second permanent elevated rapid transit line in Chicago, this route was known as the Lake Street Elevated Railroad. Chicago’s “L,” like the New York subway and rapid transit system, played an instrumental role in the development of the urban economy and the overall look and feel of the city. The formal aspects of urban railroads and the role they played in efficiently moving large number of everyday citizens across America’s growing metropolises were catnip for many American Scene painters during the first half of the 20th Century. Here, Soellner uses the techniques of the impressionists and the palette of the Ash Can School, to convincingly depict a classic Chicago scene...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pittsburgh Alleyway
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pittsburgh Alleyway, c. 1946, oil on gouache on paper on “prestwood” (Masonite), 9 x 12 inches, signed lower middle, Bohrod’s original label verso from his gallery at 4811 Tonyawatha...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
The Sheep Meadow (Central Park)
By Marla Korr
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1950
Marla Korr attended Brooklyn College, earning both a B.A. and a M.F.A. There she studied with Philip Pearlstein, Lennart Anderson ...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
East End
Located in Provincetown, MA
Robert Cardinal, originally from Montreal, has been living on Cape Cod for most of the past fifty years. In the late 1950s, he left Canada and moved to Greenwich Village. From there,...
Category
2010s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Madison Square Garden at Night
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated lower left: PAUL CORNOYER / 1912
Category
20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Spring Time II
Located in Greenwich, CT
Polish, b. 1949
Pawlowski was born in 1949 in Poland. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1979 he was awarded his "authorization and certification" by the Ministr...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Manhattan
Located in Greenwich, CT
Polish, b. 1949
Pawlowski was born in 1949 in Poland. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1979 he was awarded his "authorization and certification" by the Ministr...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Taroudant
Located in New Orleans, LA
Signed, inscribed and dated "R. Pinatel / Taroudant / 1926" (lower right)
Oil on panel
A stunning ode to the Moroccan landscape, this oil on panel was composed by the French Orientalist painter Raphaël Pinatel, whose lively works adeptly translated the romanticism of the East for a Western audience. The present work, which captures a market in Taroudant, a city in southeastern Morocco, exemplifies the artist’s distinctive approach as he brilliantly translates the energy and atmosphere of the desert city. Pinatel’s style is impressionistic in his brushwork and handling of light and atmosphere. In the present work, he brilliantly captures the effects of the direct desert sun...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
New York City View
Located in New York, NY
On verso: NY City View / ARTIST: MIRA
Category
20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Composition #59" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Jeremy Mann's "Composition #59" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a dark city setting filled with fog and passerby.
About the artist:
Je...
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
St. John’s College Cambridge from River Cam 1978 Watercolour 'R Hacking'
Located in London, GB
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R Hacking
St. John’s College, Cambridge from the River Cam...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Florence´s Bridge", 19th Century Oil on Canvas by Antonietta Brandeis
Located in Madrid, ES
ANTONIETTA BRANDEIS
Czechoslovakian, 1848 - 1926
FLORENCE´S BRIDGE
signed "ABrandeis" lower right
oil on canvas
10-3/5 x 14-4/5 inches (27 x 37.5 cm.)
unframed
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Barcelona
Antonietta Brandeis (also known as Antonie Brandeisová) (1848–1926), was a Czech-born Italian landscape, genre and portrait painter, as well as a painter of religious subjects for altarpieces.
She was born on January 13, 1848, in Miskovice (near Kutná Hora) in Bohemia, Austria-Hungary.[2] The first bibliographical indication of Antonietta Brandeis dates from her teens, when she is mentioned as a pupil of the Czech artist Karel Javůrek of Prague.[3] After the death of Brandeis' father, her mother, Giuseppina Dravhozvall, married the Venetian Giovanni Nobile Scaramella; shortly afterward the family apparently moved to Venice.
In the 1867 registry of the Venetian Academy of Fine Arts, Brandeis is listed as being enrolled as an art student. At this time, Brandeis would have been nineteen, and one of the first females to receive academic instruction in the fine arts in Italy. In fact, the Ministry granted women the legal right to instruction in the fine arts only in 1875, by which time Brandeis had finished her education at the Academy.
Brandeis’s professors at the Venetian Academy of Fine Arts include Michelangelo Grigoletti and Napoleone Nani for life drawing, Domenico Bresolin for landscape, Pompeo Marino Molmenti for painting and Federico Moja for perspective. Already during her first years of study there is evidence of Brandeis' skill-in her first year she is awarded prizes and honors in Perspective and Life Drawing. Brandeis’ continuing excellence and diligence in her artistic studies during the five years she spends at the Academy is attested to in the lists of prize-winning students of the Academy “Elenco alunni premiati Accademia Venezia in Atti della Reale Accademia di Belle Arti in Venezia degli anni 1866-1872”.[4] It includes numerous mentions of prizes and high honours won by Brandeis in Art History, Perspective, Life Drawing, Landscape and Anatomical Drawing, Drawing of Sculpture, and “Class of Folds”.
It is in Venice at the Academy that Brandeis perfected her skills as a meticulous landscape and cityscape painter, with intricate and luminous details in the tradition of the eighteenth-century “vedutisti”. In 1870, while still a student at the Academy, she participated in her first exhibition; that of the Società Veneta Promotrice di Belle Arti with the oil painting Cascina della Madonna di Monte Varese. She is documented as having exhibited eight paintings during the years 1872 to 1876 with the Società Veneta Promotrice di Belle Arti, both landscapes and genre scenes. In the exhibit of 1875 her landscape Palazzo, Marin Falier is sold to M. Hall of London for 320 lire, a first indication of the success Brandeis will achieve with foreign collectors of her work (particularly the English and German visitors to Italy on the Grand Tour circuit). During these same years, she showed two paintings in the Florentine exhibit Promotrice Fiorentina. The first painting, entitled “Gondola” is a subject which she repeats in new variations throughout her career with great success. The second, perhaps a genre painting, is entitled “Buon dì !” The two paintings remained unsold and were presented at the same exhibition the following year, together with two more genre scene paintings.
In 1876 and 1877 she exhibited three landscapes of Venice at the Promotrice Veneta, which sold to foreign collectors. In November 1877 Brandeis showed the large painting Palazzo Cavalli a Venezia at the exhibition of the Hungarian Fine Arts Society in Budapest. In both Florence and Budapest, Brandeis showed her work under the name “Antonio Brandeis”. The biographer De Gubernatis offers the following explanation for the change of name: “her first pictures received praise and criticism; she took the criticism, but when she was praised as a woman she was annoyed, and therefore exhibited under the name Antonio Brandeis.”
During the years 1878 to 1893 Brandeis painted and exhibited numerous works, primarily scenes of Venice, and although she resided chiefly in that city she also traveled and painted in Verona, Bologna, Florence, and Rome. As well as in Venice and Florence, she exhibited in Turin, Milan, and Rome. In 1880 she was present at the International Exposition of Melbourne with three paintings: Palazzo Cavalli, A Balcony in Venice and The Buranella- native of Burano Island near Venice.
Brandeis was a prolific painter, and often replicated her most popular subjects with only slight variations. She was represented in Venice at the photographer Naya’s studios in Piazza San Marco and in Campo San Maurizio and in Florence she collaborated with the picture dealer Giovanni Masini.
During this period of intense activity painting landscapes en plein air and genre scenes, Brandeis also is documented in De Gubernatis as a painter of religious altarpieces. Several of these altarpieces can be found on the Island of Korcula in Croatia. Two are visible in the parish church of Smokvici and of in the church of St. Vitus in Blato. In the sacristy of the Cathedral of Korcula is a Madonna with Christ Child painted by Brandeis. For the same church she also painted a copy of the central panel of Giovanni Bellini’s triptych from the Venetian Church of Santa Maria dei Frari Gloriosa (1488). In 1899, for the main altar of the chapel of St. Luke in the Korcula town cemetery, Brandeis painted a St. Luke, which shows the sparkling colors and free impasto typical of her plein air oil paintings.
On October 27th 1897 at the age of 49, Brandeis married the Venetian Antonio Zamboni, a knight and officer of the Italian Crown and knight of the Order of SS. Maurizio and Lazzaro. The couple continued to reside in Venice and Brandeis continued to show at Italian exhibitions in Venice, Florence, and Rome although more sporadically and with fewer works than before. Although she participated in the International Exposition of Watercolourists in Rome in 1906 with a “Study” and in the Società Promotrice delle Belle Arti in Florence in 1907 and 1908 with two oil paintings, De Gubernatis quotes Brandeis as saying in 1906, that even though she resides in Venice “I am a foreigner, and for some time I have not taken part in Italian Exhibitions, sending all my paintings to London.[3] Antonio Zamboni died 11...
Category
1890s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas