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George Grenville "Medieval Garden Scene" Oil Painting Early 20th Century

Circa 1920

Victor Mytteis (1874-1936) Hungarian Country Landscape with Figures c.1902 Charming oil painting titled "A brook w/ a bench" Original oil on canvas by listed Hungarian artist Victo...

Mid Century Modern Fisherman w/ Pipe Oil Painting c.1950 Signed in the lower right corner "Horiger" Canvas dimensions 20" x 16". Frame dimensions 29" x 25". Very good condition. F...

James Stokeld (1827-1877) "Buttercup" Original Oil Painting C.1869 Original oil on canvas Canvas dimensions 20" wide x 26" high The frame measures 23....

Roman Andrade Llaguno "Bajo El Sol" Original Oil Painting C.1993 Original oil on canvas Canvas dimensions 39" wide x 31.5" high The frame measures 44" wide x 36.5" high Signed by the artist The painting is in very good condition and shows a past professional repair (seen on back only) A fine example of Modern Mexican Surrealism...

Pair of 19th Century Shepherd & Shepherdess Amongst Ancient Ruins Oil Paintings Original oil on oval canvas Each painting measures 16.5" wide x 21.5" high The old distressed frame...

Gerald Merfeld (American, 20th c.) "Street Market, Vietnam" Original Oil Painting c.1980s Fine oil painting of a bustling street market scene in Vietna...

Joshua Shaw was a farmer’s son, born in Billingborough, Lincolnshire, and orphaned at the age of seven. After a boyhood of privation, he tried a number of occupations, until he finally apprenticed to a sign painter and found his métier. Shaw went to Manchester to study art, and by 1802 was in Bath, painting landscapes. In that year he began to exhibit his work at the Royal Academy in London. Essentially self-taught, Shaw achieved an impressive level of competence and versatility, producing portraits, floral compositions, still lifes, landscapes, and, cattle pieces. Shaw continued to send works for exhibition at the Royal Academy, the British Institution, and the Suffolk Street Gallery, all in London, until 1841. (Although Shaw is regularly mentioned and frequently illustrated in a host of general books on American art history, as well as included in numerous historical survey exhibitions, the only monographic study of this artist is Miriam Carroll Woods, “Joshua Shaw [1776–1860]: A Study of the Artist and his Paintings” [M.A. thesis, University of California at Los Angeles, 1971]. Apart from short biographical sketches in various dictionaries and museum collection catalogues, the two most interesting references, both contemporary, are John Sartain’s personal recollections in The Reminiscences of a Very Old Man, 1808–1897 [1899; reprint 1969] and an article in Scientific American from August 7, 1869, “Joshua Shaw, Artist and Inventor.” The article quotes extensively from an autobiographical document in the possession of Shaw’s grandson that Shaw prepared for William Dunlap...

The artwork possesses several characteristics that align it with the oeuvre of famous French Impressionists like Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. The brushwork is loose and appears...

*Dimensions include the frame In this small, evocative painting by Émile Louis Thivier (1858-1922), the soft gradations of color and light across the sky create a gentle, atmospheri...

*Dimensions include the frame This oil on canvas by Louis Jacques Vigon captures the essence of Impressionism, a movement originating in France in the 1860s. Impressionism is charac...

*Dimensions include the frame This maritime scene is reminiscent of the Impressionist fascination with water, light, and atmosphere. The painting features a lighthouse and architect...

*Dimensions include the frame This painting by Émile Gauffriaud vividly embraces the en plein air technique, a hallmark of Impressionist work, where artists paint outdoors to captur...