Antonio Canella

"A Good Read, Venice, " Watercolor, 19th c. Realist, Small, Richly Detailed

Samuel S. Carr was born in England in 1837. He studied at the Royal School of Design in Chester before immigrating to the United States around 1862, where he settled in Brooklyn, New York. He began exhibiting genre paintings in the 1870s. He was known for his paintings of children, seashore life and pastoral subjects. Carr was a member of the Brooklyn Art...

Marine painter Warren W. Sheppard was born in Greenwich, New Jersey, to a ship captain father who instilled in his son a love and respect for the sea. He studied privately with Mauritz F. H. De Haas and took courses in drawing at Cooper Union in New York City. He traveled along the Mediterranean coast in 1879, sketching the ports of Naples, Gibraltar, Genoa and Messina. Sheppard’s foreign tours continued between 1888 and 1893, with stays in Paris and Venice, where he captured the architecture and busy canals of the Floating City. This fondness for travel also translated to his home country. He sailed along the East Coast from New Jersey to Maine in search of subjects and was an expert navigator, eventually writing the book Practical Navigation. Yacht design became a second career for Sheppard and he participated in a number of sailing competitions himself, most notably winning the New York-to-Bermuda race twice while skipper of the Tamerlane. Sheppard exhibited at the Denver Exposition, Chicago Exposition...

Kanuty Rusiecki was born in 1800 in Stebėkiai, Lithuania. He studied at the University of Vilnius under the tutelage of Jan Rustem and Kazimierz Jelski. In 1821 Rusiecki enrolled at ...

Gabriel Spat was born in Kishinev, Russia, in 1890. Leaving Russia in 1911, he studied at the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Geneva and at the Academie Colarossi and the Academie de la ...

Though he was born in Norwich, England in 1833 and lived in London for the second half of his life, George Henry Boughton’s formative years as a self-taught artist began in Albany, New York, where his family settled in the 1830’s. Recognized as a leading landscape and genre painter in the United States and abroad, Boughton illustrated editions of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle...

"At the Seashore" is a mid-20th century Impressionist painting of a young boy at the shore.

"The Long Way Home" by Thane Gorek (United States) is a handmade landscape oil painting that is framed and ready to hang.

"When the World Was New" by Thane Gorek (United States) is a handmade landscape oil painting that is framed and ready to hang.

"Enchanted Light" by Thane Gorek (United States) is a handmade landscape oil painting that is framed and ready to hang.

Mid 19th century Realist ink, watercolour and gouache portrait on paper of a young man in a field by John George Todd. The painting is signed G Todd bottom left as was his usual mann...

By the bath. watercolor on paper, 48,5x58,5 cm Zeberins Indrikis Born 1882. 30. 08 – 1969. 18. 05 Latvian painter, book illustrator, cartoon illus...

Landscape Pyrenees original realist watercolor painting Original work on paper by the Spanish artist CABANE Joaquin Cabene. 1922/1993 Painter and watercolorist, Joaquim Cabané traveled in search of inspiration different points of the Spanish and Italian geography, capturing luminous views of the Catalan and Majorcan coasts, urban landscapes of Venice...