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Italian School 20th Century Oil - Resting by the River

20th Century

A charismatic Mediterranean scene depicting peasants resting with their cattle and sheep in a mountain valley. Unsigned. Presented in a gilt frame with gadrooning.

A river landscape with figures walking along a path to the left of the composition and cattle grazing in a field in the distance. Presented glazed in an ornate gilt frame with floral...

A charming French school scene depicting figures in 18th-century dress lounging in a sunlit park. Unsigned. Presented in a gilt frame with acanthus detail. On canvas.

A charming continental oil scene depicting two men and a donkey crossing a wooden bridge to a coastal town up on the cliffs. The scene is finely painted capturing smaller, intricate ...

Work on canvas

Italian painting from the mid-20th century. Work oil on canvas (applied on board, see photo) depicting bucolic landscape with characters and city in the background of good pictorial ...

In the foreground, a lake surrounded by vegetation. On the left bank, several figures, some in a boat. In the background, a building that resembles a fortified castle, in a hilly lan...

This simply stunning large Old Master landscape oil painting is attributed to noted Dutch artist Adriaen van Diest. Painted circa 1700 this Mediterranean Italian landscape painting has everything; A really interesting landscape with land, river, sea and mountains, interesting figures and cattle and a wonderful sky with fading light. The details and the capturing of the light make this a really fantastic Dutch Old Master country house Grand Tour oil painting. Irresistible. Provenance. Dorset estate. Condition. Oil on canvas, 42 inches by 20 inches and in good condition. Frame. Housed in an English carved giltwood frame, 50 inches by 28 inches framed and in good condition. Adriaen van Diest (1655-1704) was born in the Hague in the Netherlands. Like his father and his brother, he pursued a career as a marine painter, that is, a painter of seascapes and sailing ships. In 1673, attracted by the thriving English market for portraits and marine paintings, he joined the exodus of Dutch artists leaving to work in England. It is thought that his master was Willem van de Velde the Younger...