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Alfred Henry Hart (1866-1953) - Oil, The Heat of Day, Lake Como

Early 20th Century

Varenna fisherman tending to their boats on Como's lake shore. Well presented in a beautiful oak frame. Signed to the lower right and labelled to the reverse. On watercolour.

Original watercolour. End of the Lago Maggiore near Locarno. Presented in a gilt-effect frame with a crisp white mount. Signed to the lower left. On paper.

Original watercolour. Signed to the lower left. Presented in a gilt frame. On paper.

A dramatic landscape depicting a clifftop castle on the Adriatic Sea. Presented glazed in a pale-pink mount with a gilt-effect inner and a distressed gilt-effect wooden frame. Inscri...

Robert D. Gauley (American, born Ireland, 1875-1943) Lake Como, Near Menaggio, 1892 Oil on canvas, 18 1/4 x 28 1/4 inches FRAMED: 25 3/4 x 35 inches Signed and dated at lower left: “Robert D Gauley/Menaggio 1892” Born in Carnaveigh County, Monaghan, Ireland in 1875, Robert Gauley was a portrait, figure and landscape painter. Around 1884, his family emigrated to the United States and made Boston their home. Gauley began his art training under Denman Waldo Ross in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1890, he received formal instruction at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, studying under Edmund C. Tarbell and Frank W. Benson. In Paris, he studied at the Academie Julian under William Bouguereau and Gabriel Ferrier...

Signed lower left, 'Hans Blum' (German, 1858-1942) and painted circa 1911. Provenance: Exhibited, 'Jubiläums- Ausstellung der Münchener Künstler-Genossenschaft', München 1911 ('Anniv...

"En Provence" Raymond Allègre (France, 1857-1933) Circa 1900 Oil on wood panel Signed lower left, countersigned and titled on the back 13 1/2 x 9 (30 3/4 x 25 1/8 frame) inches It'...

This Italian landscape is an oil on canvas, framed behind glass in its original gallery frame, by Susan Isabel Dacre. A superb painting, painted circa 1888. Dacre was an early member of the Feminist movement and a member of the Manchester arts community. She travelled with Lord Leighton and exhibited widely. This work shows influences of early British impressionism. The painting depicts an Italian landscape with a road sweeping around a hill with dwellings and trees. The brushwork and palette are superb. An excellent example of a 19th century women artists work. Signed lower left. Provenance. Family collection. Condition. Oil on canvas. Image size 13 inches by 10 inches. canvas in original excellent condition. Housed in an original gilt frame 20 inches by 17 inches approx. and in good condition. Susan Isabel Dacre (1844 – 1933) was an English female artist of the Victorian era. She was born in Leamington, Warwickshire, and was educated in Salford. For the decade of 1858–68 she lived in Paris. After a winter in Italy (1869), she returned to Paris, and was present during the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune. She returned to England in 1871 and began studying art at the Manchester School of Art, where she won the Queen's Prize in 1875. She began a lifelong friendship with fellow artist Annie Swynnerton; the two women pursued their art studies in Rome and Paris between 1874 and 1880. Around 1872, Lord Leighton dictated notes and observations on his methods of painting and composing his pictures to Susan Dacre during a stay on the island of Capri. From 1877-1880 she was in Paris at the Académie Julian with a fellow - pupil Marie Bashkirtseff...