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Period: 1890s
Large Oil Painting On Canvas Belle Epoque Art Nouveau
Located in Gavere, BE
"Large Oil Painting On Canvas Belle époque Art Nouveau With Frame" Georges Redon (1869-1943) is a famous French painter, draftsman, caricaturist, post...
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French School 1890s Paintings

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Gold Leaf

"Place de la Concorde", 19th Century Oil on Canvas by Artist Joaquín Pallarés
Located in Madrid, ES
JOAQUÍN PALLARÉS ALLUSTANTE Spanish, 1853 - 1935 PLACE DE LA CONCORDE signed & located "J. PALLARÉS / París." (lower right) oil on canvas 13-1/4 x 18-...
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Realist 1890s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Framed Impressionist Horse Portrait Equestrian Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist horse portrait painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Measuring: 33 by 30 inches overall, and 26 by 24 painting alone. In excellent original condition. Han...
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Impressionist 1890s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Framed Impressionist Flower Garden Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist flower landscape oil painting by Francis William Loring (1838 - 1905) . Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 11 by 16 inches overall, and 5 by 10...
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Impressionist 1890s Paintings

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Oil

“Watering the Cattle”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas painting by the American artist, Edmund Darch Lewis. Signed lower right and dated, 1891. Several small punctures which will be professionaly restored. Old reline of ca...
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Academic 1890s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Barbizon School 19th Century Oil Painting Sunlit Forest Path Birch Trees Framed
Located in Buffalo, NY
This luminous 19th century oil on canvas captures a serene woodland path dappled with golden afternoon light. The artist’s masterful brushwork conveys both the weight and texture of ...
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Barbizon School 1890s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Les Invalides, Paris
By Luigi Loir
Located in Astoria, NY
Luigi Loir (French, 1845-1916), Les Invalides, Paris, Gouache and Watercolor on Paper, signed "Loir Luigi" lower right, carved wood frame. Image: 10.5" H x 16" W; frame: 18.75" H x 2...
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Impressionist 1890s Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Large "View of The Doge's Palace Venice", 19th C. Oil on Canvas by Karl Kaufmann
Located in Madrid, ES
KARL KAUFMANN Austrian, 1843 - 1901 VIEW OF VENICE OF THE DOGE'S PALACE, VENICE signed & dated "K. Kaufmann 1894" (lower right) oil on canvas 38-3/4 x 56-1/8 inches (98 x 142 cm.) fr...
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Naturalistic 1890s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A portrait of an English terrier dog standing in a walled garden, signed.l
Located in Bath, Somerset
A terrier named Joe standing in an English country house walled garden, painted by the eminent animal painter John Emms (1844-1912) in the late 19th cent...
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English School 1890s Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"Sail Boats in Harbor"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Edward Willis Redfield (1869 - 1965) Edward W. Redfield was born in Bridgeville, Delaware, moving to Philadelphia as a youn...
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American Impressionist 1890s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

View of Medici Villa, Rome
By Ross Sterling Turner
Located in Milford, NH
An exceptional Italian landscape by American artist Ross Sterling Turner (1847-1915). Turner was born in Westport, New York, and after moving to ...
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1890s Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

The Rose Seller
Located in St. Albans, GB
Alfred Edward Emslie A beautiful example of Arthur Emslie's work combining his renown ability for portraiture and genre. The soft tones of the background and dress contrasted with the highlights in the face and the large, vibrant bouquet of roses creates a piece perfect for any situation. It is a painting showing class, technique and subtlety. Provenance: Bonhams Canvas Size: 22 x 18" (56 x 46cm) Outside Frame Size: 32 x 28" (81 x 71cm) 1848-1918 Alfred Edward Emslie was an English genre and portrait painter and photographer. He was the son of the engraver, John Emslie...
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Victorian 1890s Paintings

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Oil

The Rose Seller
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Eduardo León Garrido, "An Elegant Dance", 19th C. Oil on Mahogany Wood Panel
Located in Madrid, ES
EDUARDO LEÓN GARRIDO Spanish, 1856- 1949 AN ELEGANT DANCE signed "E. L Garrido" (lower right) oil on mahogany wood panel 25-1/8 x 32 inches (63.5 x 81 cm.) framed: 31 x 38 inches (78.5 x 96 cm.) PROVENANCE Private Spanish Collector Eduardo León Garrido (Madrid, 1856 - Caen, 1949) was a Spanish painter. He began his training at the Higher School of Painting in Madrid and as a disciple in Vicente...
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Realist 1890s Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Gathering Water
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Child in an extended landscape. Attention to details is extraordinary. The color pallet is rich. The use of natural light is excellent. Munier was a student of Bougereau ( consid...
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1890s Paintings

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Oil

Realist Painting Portrait French actor Comedie Française LARD 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
François Maurice LARD Paris, 1864 – Paris, 1908 Portrait of the actor Raphaël Duflos as Ruy Blas Oil on canvas 55 x 38 cm (67 x 49 cm with the frame) Signed and dated top right “FM L...
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French School 1890s Paintings

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Oil

French Battleships at Sea, Marine scene
Located in New York, NY
An interesting moment in history, captured in a marine scene that has a stark but attractive color palette! A sensational empire frame custom made for the work and 23 karat. Henri R...
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French School 1890s Paintings

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Oil

Old oil on Canvas 18th century , after Jean baptiste Oudry French school
Located in Gavere, BE
Very beautiful old artwork of the end of the 18th century ,after Jean Baptiste Oudry " Loup pris au piege ", an example of which is exhibited at th...
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French School 1890s Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Giovane ragazza con papaveri (Young Girl with Poppies)
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Literature: Manuel Carrera, “Una ritrattistica manciniana nelle collezioni della Gnam,” Belle-Arti 131, no. 2 (2013), p. 44 (color illus.)
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Impressionist 1890s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A Quiet Afternoon in the Park
By Richard Creifelds
Located in Mc Lean, VA
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American Realist 1890s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Oil painting on canvas “portrait of an Elegant woman with fan” dated 1890
Located in Gavere, BE
Oil painting on canvas “portrait of an Elegant woman with fan” dated 1890 Additional info: Title: Elegant with a fan Style: Art Nouveau style painting Medium: oil on canvas Signatu...
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1890s Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Dipinto mitologico nudo simbolista francese del XIX secolo con cornice
By Emile Meyer
Located in Florence, IT
il dipinto senza la cornice in legno finemente decorata a ornato vegetale in pastiglia e dorata misura 35 x 27 cm senza cornice, è firmato e datato: E. Meyer 1892. La scena si svolg...
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Other Art Style 1890s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Large Oil Painting On Canvas Belle Epoque Art Nouveau
Located in Gavere, BE
Georges Redon (1869-1943) is a famous French painter, draftsman, caricaturist, poster designer and engraver. Art Nouveau portrait oil on canvas mounted on panel "The elegant with the...
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French School 1890s Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Small nineteenth century oil painting of Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Charles Lewis Fussell (American, 1840–1909) Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn Oil on canvas, 8 x 11 ½ inches FRAMED: 15 x 19 inches (approx.) Signed and inscribed at lower left: "C. L. FUSSEL...
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Realist 1890s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Garden Scene Called Pergola Noor by Female Artist Clara Löfgren
Located in Stockholm, SE
Clara Löfgren (1843–1923) Sweden Pergola Noor, c.1890 oil on canvas laid down on board no signature unframed: 27.7 x 26.7 cm (10.9 x 10.5 in) framed: 35 x 34 cm (13.8 x 13.4 in) P...
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Realist 1890s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

A Fine Stiepevich Orientalist Painting of a Harem Girl with a Lute
Located in New York, NY
VINCENT G. STIEPEVICH Russian, 1841-1910 Harem Girl with a Lute Signed ‘VG. Stiepevich’ L/R Oil on canvas 24 x 18 inches Frame: 31.375 X 25.25 inches
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1890s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Barbizon/Impressionism School Haystack Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fabulous late 19th or early 20th century oil on canvas. It looks to be in the style of the Barbizon School moving into impressionim. Most of the earl...
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Barbizon School 1890s Paintings

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Oil

19th century English Winter landscape with show and setting Sun
Located in Woodbury, CT
F. Walters (English, 19th Century) An English Winter Landscape at Dusk Oils on canvas, signed lower left. Circa 1890. Presented in a hand-carved English swept frame. This evocative ...
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1890s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique Painting of Jack Russels, Labs, Terriers, and Fox Hounds
Located in New York, NY
Up for sale is a beautiful original painting by Valentine Thomas GARLAND (1868-1914). Garland was a painter of animal and genre subjects, working in both oil and watercolor. He was ...
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Academic 1890s Paintings

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Oil

"Milldam on the Miramichi" Joseph Jefferson, American, Barbizon School Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Joseph Jefferson Milldam on the Miramichi, 1894 Signed / Dated lower left "J.Jefferson 94" Oil on canvas 17 3/4 x 28 1/4 inches Born in Philadelphia, Joseph Jefferson grew up in th...
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Barbizon School 1890s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"The Outing Magazine" Last Rose of Summer Original Cover Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
The Outing Magazine commissioned Parrish to provide a cover illustration for their 1899 Last Rose of Summer edition (published December 1899). In the poster, Maxfield used his own face and figure to portray a youth in Grecian costume examining a rose he holds in his hand. The figure is shown sitting below one of the massive oaks on the artist’s property, flanked by two plaster lions the artist had moulded in his studio. The depiction harks back to the 1805 poem by the Irish poet, Thomas Moore: ‘Tis the last rose of summer, Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone; No flower of her kindred, No rose-bud is nigh, To reflect back her blushes Or give sigh for sigh! I’ll not leave thee, thou lone one...
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1890s Paintings

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Oil, Paper, Ink, Gouache, Board

Venice Laguna with Gondola
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
ADAM-LAURENS Suzanne Adrienne, aka Nanny (1861-1915) Venice, Lagoon with gondolier Oil on canvas signed lower left Frame gilded with leaf canvas size: 55 X 42 cm Frame size: 64 X 77 cm French painter born in Crest (Drôme ) February 20, 1861 Died in 1915 Landscape...
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Academic 1890s Paintings

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Oil

Jeune femme ajustant son corset - Pierre Carrier-Belleuse, french, large, pastel
Located in London, GB
Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (1851-1932) Jeune femme ajustant son corset 1893 pastel on canvas 133.4 x 92.7 cm signed and dated 'Pierre Carrier-Belleuse 1893' (upper right) Price: £34,00...
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Other Art Style 1890s Paintings

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Canvas, Pastel

Signed, 19th Century Oil Painting of Jack Russell Terriers
By Walter Biddlecombe
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Shared Rest" - an absolutely charming, fabulously painted, oil-on-canvas painting of three, Jack Russel Terriers nestled together on a bench or sofa, swathed in green fabric. Framed...
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1890s Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"La hora del té", 19th Century oil on canvas by Ricardo Brugada y Panizo
Located in Madrid, ES
RICARDO BRUGADA Y PANIZO Spanish, 1867 - 1919 LA HORA DEL TÉ signed & dated "Ricardo Brugada. 1897." (lower left) oil on canvas 22-1/8 x 31.5 inches (5...
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Realist 1890s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

In the Flower Fields
By Frank S. Herrmann
Located in New York, NY
Rare to find this subject matter in turn of the century paintings! By 1895, Herrman had honed his artistic skills in Paris under the renowned academic painter William Bourguereau. Th...
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American Impressionist 1890s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A Fine Stiepevich Orientalist Painting of a Lounging Odalisque in the Harem
Located in New York, NY
VINCENT G. STIEPEVICH Russian, 1841-1910 Lounging Odalisque in the Harem Signed ‘VG. Stiepevich’ L/R Oil on canvas 18 x 24 inches Frame: 26 x 33 inches
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1890s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Venetian Canal" Late 19th Century Oil on Canvas by Spanish Artist Antonio Reyna
Located in Madrid, ES
ANTONIO REYNA MANESCAU Spanish, 1859 - 1937 VENETIAN CANAL signed & located "A. Reyna, Venezia" (lower left) oil on canvas 11-1/2 x 19-3/4 inche...
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Realist 1890s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Lady in White Hat In A Moorish Japonais Interior Reading
By Friedrich Fehr
Located in New York, NY
Friedrich Fehr (1862-1927) Antique Impressionist Painting of a High Society Lady in White Hat, reading In a Moorish Japonais Interior. Painting is very well done with Persian carpets...
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Impressionist 1890s Paintings

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Oil

River scene at sunset with figures gathering reeds
Located in Gent, VOV
LEGNAIOLI SUL TEVERE - RIVER SCENE WITH FIGURE GATHERING REEDS Oil on canvas: 30 1/2 x 38 1/2 in., 36 x 44 1/2 in. (framed) Framed; lower right signed and dated: H. Corrodi, 1892
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Italian School 1890s Paintings

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Oil

Sur le balcon (On the Balcony)
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Exhibited: Société Nationale des Beaux-arts, Paris, 1893 (as Jeune Fille arrosant ses fleurs) Literature: Michel, Jean Pierre, François Guiguet (Corbelin, France, 1996), p. 102 (n...
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Post-Impressionist 1890s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Portrait of a Woman" Edward Percy Moran, Early American Portrait, Bucolic
Located in New York, NY
Edward Percy Moran Portrait of a Woman Signed lower right Oil on canvas 30 x 20 inches Provenance: The Madison Gallery, Atlanta Percy Moran was the son of marine painter Edward Mo...
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Academic 1890s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

GOUY large pastel woman model nude french painter Salon Paris 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Jeanne GOUY (Active between 1890 and 1904) Pastel on paper Signed lower right "Jeanne Gouy" 66 x 82 cm (83 x 100 cm with the frame) Jeanne Gouy studied with the academic painter Jules Machard...
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Academic 1890s Paintings

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Pastel

A Venetian scene of the Palazzo Dario by F. R. Unterberger
Located in London, GB
A Venetian scene of the Palazzo Dario by F. R. Unterberger Austrian, c.1898-1900 Frame: height 97cm, width 85cm, depth 7cm Canvas: 83cm, width 70cm, depth...
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Romantic 1890s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Ca' d' Oro, Venice" Late 19th Century Oil on Canvas of Venice, by Antonio Reyna
Located in Madrid, ES
ANTONIO REYNA MANESCAU Spanish, 1859 - 1937 CA' D' ORO, VENICE signed & located "A. Reyna, Venezia" (lower right) oil on canvas 11-1/2 x 19-3/4 ...
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Realist 1890s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Still life with Japanese print (probably Utagawa Kunisada) and Noh masks
Located in PARIS, FR
Roger-François PICQUEFEU Paris 1864 – Neuilly-sur-Seine 1956 Still life with Noh masks and Japanese print (probably Kunisada) Oil on canvas Signed and dedicated in the lower right c...
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Post-Impressionist 1890s Paintings

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Oil

A pleasant serenade Italian oil painting on canvas by Alessandro Sani 19Th c.
Located in Gavere, BE
A pleasant serenade Italian oil painting on canvas attributed to Alessandro Sani 19Th c. Alessandro Sani (1856–1927) was an Italian painter, mainly of genre subjects. He was born a...
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Italian School 1890s Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Woman in a Field
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman in a Field (title unknown) Oil on canvas, 1894 Signed and dated 1894, lower right corner Unframed A major exhibition work by this American Expatriate painter. Further research ...
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Barbizon School 1890s Paintings

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Oil

La Cible D’amour Suiveur De F. Boucher
Located in GOUVIEUX, FR
Superbe huile sur toile de la fin du XIXe siècle, école française, dans la manière de François Boucher. Cette composition d’une grande qualité décorative met en scène un groupe de pu...
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French School 1890s Paintings

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Oil

Alfred De Breanski Sr. “A Pole In The Highlands”
Located in Dallas, TX
Alfred De Breanski Sr. (United Kingdom/Scotland, 1852-1928), circa 1890 Oil on canvas seascape titled en verso "A Pole in The Highlands" depicting two figures fishing center left, a ...
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1890s Paintings

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Paint

English Country Landscape - Original Painting on Paper by Oliver Louis Tweddle
Located in Soquel, CA
English Country Landscape - Watercolor on Paper Watercolor painting depicting an American country landscape by Oliver Louis Tweddle (English, B-1860). Four fishermen stand upon a br...
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Tonalist 1890s Paintings

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Watercolor, Board, Laid Paper

"Filipino Girl Coming Down the Steps", 19th Century by Artist Fabian de la Rosa
Located in Madrid, ES
FABIAN DE LA ROSA Filipino, 1869 - 1937 "FILIPINO GIRLO COMING DOWN THE STEPS" signed & dated "F. de la Rosa, 1894" (lower right) oil on canvas 42-3/4 x 23-3/4 inches (108 x 60...
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Realist 1890s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

19th Century English, Robin and Rabbit winter landscape
By Henry Woods
Located in Woodbury, CT
This charming Victorian winter scene by Henry Woods captures the quiet poetry of the natural world in the stillness of snow. Titled A Winter Song, the painting depicts a watchful bro...
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Victorian 1890s Paintings

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Oil, Board

Pretending (The Great Performance)
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed and dated '1890' lower right
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Academic 1890s Paintings

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Oil

'Travellers in the Desert, ' A large Orientalist painting by C. J. Theriat
Located in London, GB
'Travellers in the Desert,' A large Orientalist painting by C. J. Theriat American, Late 19th Century Canvas: 80cm x 126cm x 2cm Frame: 95cm x 141cm x 5.5cm Executed in oil on canvas in a giltwood frame, signed, inscribed and dated lower left 'C. J. Theriat Biskra. (18)95,' this excellent Orientalist painting shows a desert scene with two figures, one riding a mule, in the Algerian Desert at Biskra. It was made by the American artist Charles James Theriat...
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1890s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Deux vieillards aux chatons - Impressionist Figurative Oil by J F Raffaelli
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in interior oil on panel by French impressionist painter Jean-Francois Raffaelli. The piece depicts two old men seated in an interior. One is reading his paper as the other naps and there are several kittens on the floor. Painted in the artist's distinctive style. Signature: Signed lower left Dimensions: Framed: 9.5"x8" Unframed: 5.5"x4" Provenance: Brame & Lorenceau have confirmed the authenticity of this work and it will be included in the digital catalogue raisonne of the painter which is under preparation A certificate of authenticity fromBrame & Lorenceau accompanies this painting Private collection - United States Original artists label verso Jean-François Raffaëlli's father was a failed Italian businessman and Raffaëlli himself was, among other things, a church chorister, actor and theatre singer. He then studied under Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He travelled to Italy, Spain and Algeria and on his return to France settled in Asnières. In 1876, on a trip to Brittany, he first saw the potential of realist subject matter, if treated seriously. He became involved in meetings of artists at the Café Guerbois, where the Impressionist painters used to gather. As a result, Degas, contrary to the advice of the group, introduced Raffaëlli to the Impressionist exhibitions - according to one uncertain source as early as the very first exhibition, at the home of Nadar, and certainly to those of 1880 and 1881. In 1904, Raffaëlli founded the Society for Original Colour Engraving. He first exhibited at the Salon de Paris in 1870 and continued to exhibit there until he joined the Salon des Artistes Français in 1881, where he earned a commendation in 1885, was made Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur in 1889 and in the same year was awarded a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle. In 1906 he was made Officier of the Légion d'Honneur. He was also a member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. In 1884, a private exhibition of his work cemented his reputation. He contributed to several newspapers such as The Black Cat (Le Chat Noir) in 1885 and The French Mail (Le Courrier Français) in 1886 and 1887. He published a collection entitled Parisian Characters, which captured his favourite themes of the street, the neighbourhood and local people going about their lives. In 1880 he participated, with Forain, on the illustration of Joris Karl Huysmans' Parisian Sketches (Croquis Parisiens). He also illustrated Huysman's Works. As well as working as an illustrator, he also made etchings and coloured dry-points. His early attempts at painting were genre scenes, but once he was settled in Asnières he started to paint picturesque views of Parisian suburbs. From 1879 onwards, his subject matter drew on the lives of local people. These popular themes, which he treated with humanity and a social conscience, brought him to the attention of the social realist writers of the time such as Émile Zola. In addition to his realist style, Raffaëlli's dark palette, which ran contrary to the Impressionist aesthethic, helped to explain the opposition of those painters to his participation in their exhibitions. More concerned with drawing than colour, he used black and white for most of his paintings. Towards the end of his life, he lightened his palette, but without adopting any other principles of the Impressionist technique. After painting several portraits, including Edmond de Goncourt and Georges Clémenceau, he returned to genre painting, particularly scenes of bourgeois life. Later in his career, he painted mainly Breton-inspired sailors and views of Venice. His views of the Paris slums and the fortifications, sites which have almost completely disappeared, went some way towards establishing a genre in themselves and perpetuated the memory of the area: The Slums, Rag-and-Bone Man, Vagabond, Sandpit, In St-Denis, Area of Fortifications. His realistic and witty portrayal of typical Parisian townscapes accounts for his enduring appeal. Born in Paris, he was of Tuscan descent through his paternal grandparents. He showed an interest in music and theatre before becoming a painter in 1870. One of his landscape paintings was accepted for exhibition at the Salon in that same year. In October 1871 he began three months of study under Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris; he had no other formal training. Raffaëlli produced primarily costume pictures until 1876, when he began to depict the people of his time—particularly peasants, workers, and ragpickers seen in the suburbs of Paris—in a realistic style. His new work was championed by influential critics such as J.-K. Huysmans, as well as by Edgar Degas. The ragpicker became for Raffaëlli a symbol of the alienation of the individual in modern society. Art historian Barbara S. Fields has written of Raffaëlli's interest in the positivist philosophy of Hippolyte-Adolphe Taine, which led him to articulate a theory of realism that he christened caractérisme. He hoped to set himself apart from those unthinking, so-called realist artists whose art provided the viewer with only a literal depiction of nature. His careful observation of man in his milieu paralleled the anti-aesthetic, anti-romantic approach of the literary Naturalists, such as Zola and Huysmans. Degas invited Raffaëlli to participate in the Impressionist exhibitions of 1880 and 1881, an action that bitterly divided the group; not only was Raffaëlli not an Impressionist, but he threatened to dominate the 1880 exhibition with his outsized display of 37 works. Monet, resentful of Degas's insistence on expanding the Impressionist exhibitions by including several realists, chose not to exhibit, complaining, "The little chapel has become a commonplace school which opens its doors to the first dauber to come along."An example of Raffaëlli's work from this period is Les buveurs d'absinthe (1881, in the California Palace of Legion of Honor Art Museum in San Francisco). Originally titled Les déclassés, the painting was widely praised at the 1881 exhibit. After winning the Légion d'honneur in 1889, Raffaëlli shifted his attention from the suburbs of Paris to city itself, and the street scenes that resulted were well received by the public and the critics. He made a number of sculptures, but these are known today only through photographs.[2] His work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1912 Summer Olympics. In the later years of his life, he concentrated on color printmaking. Raffaëlli died in Paris on February 11, 1924 Museum and Gallery Holdings: Béziers: Peasants Going to Town Bordeaux: Bohemians at a Café Boston: Notre-Dame; Return from the Market Brussels: Chevet of Notre-Dame; pastel Bucharest (Muz. National de Arta al României): Market at Antibes; Pied-à-terre Copenhagen: Fishermen on the Beach Douai: Return from the Market; Blacksmiths Liège: Absinthe Drinker...
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Impressionist 1890s Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Great Lakes Tugboat CALUMET
By Otto Muhlenfeld
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
An artist who knew the vessels he painted firsthand, Baltimore artist Otto Muhlenfeld has captured the Great Lakes Steam Tug CALUMET in a colorful, working profile. Her American Ensi...
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Folk Art 1890s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

Sea View from Menton, Côte d'Azur, France. By Johan Peter von Wildenradt
Located in Stockholm, SE
Johan Peter von Wildenradt (1861-1904) Title: Sea View from Menton, Côte d'Azur, France Wildenradt was born 1861 in Helsingør, Denmark. He studies art at the School of Fine Arts in Copenhagen under Laurits Tuxen...
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1890s Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

“Evangeline: Tale of Acadia”
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed with initials lower right The painting is one of the 4 illustrations that JWS did for the book “Evangeline: Tale of Acadia”, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
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1890s Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor

A Stone and Wood House in 19th-century Mamaroneck, New York
Located in San Francisco, CA
The painting may not illustrate your story, but it is universal—that desire to honor one’s forerunners and reflect on their daily lives. Consider the many opportunities, comforts and...
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American Impressionist 1890s Paintings

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Oil, Board

Antique 19th century English landscape, Watermill, trees, mountain by a stream
Located in Woodbury, CT
R.Ellis English late 19th-century landscape of a Watermill by a Stream and a bridge. Original frame oils on card Signed and dated on the reverse and lower right. Ellis was a la...
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Victorian 1890s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

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