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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Fine 18th Century Oil - Portrait of a Georgian Gentleman
Located in Corsham, GB
This fine 18th-century portrait depicts a distinguished gentleman. The subject wears a powdered wig and a silk cravat, both emblematic of his high social standing. His composed gaze ...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dutch School 18th Century Oil - Raging Bull
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming 18th-century Dutch School oil depicting a raging bull, poised and ready to charge. The scene is rendered with exquisite brushwork, the artist capturing the bull's thick fu...
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18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Henry IV, King of England (1367-1413), 16th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait of Henry IV, King of England (1367-1413), 16th Century
English School Portrait - Early Oil On Panel
Large 16th Century court portrait of Henry IV, King Of England (1367-14...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Madonna and child, Italian school, 18th century
Located in DEVENTER, NL
Italian School, 18th century
Depicted are the Madonna and Child Jesus, the virgin Mary is holding the Child Jesus lovingly in her arms. The child, lying on a bundle of cloth and with...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th Century Venetian School Portrait of a Bishop Oil on Panel Green Brown Black
Located in Sanremo, IT
Painting oil on panel measuring 40 x 30 cm without frame and 48 x 38 with frame representing a great bishop of the Venetian school from the first half of the 18th century.
Very curi...
Category
Italian School 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$1,147 Sale Price
20% Off
Dipinto fiammingo figurativo paesaggio bamboccianti del XVII secolo
By Jacob Van Huchtenberg
Located in Florence, IT
Il Mercato a Piazza del Popolo è opera del pittore olandese Jacob van Huchtenburgh, nato a Haarlem e presente, nel corso dei primi anni Sessanta del Seicento, a Roma, a stretto conta...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Religious Subject Oil on Canvas Italy XVII Century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil painting on canvas. Lombard school of the seventeenth century. The large scene presents in the center the seated Madonna proposing her breast to the Baby Jesus, who instead stretches out to try to pick a fruit from the basket that St. John gives him, standing under them; around, five figures of saints, recognizable by their iconographic attributes. From the left you have: St. Paul, holding the sword, St. Anna, lovingly watching over his daughter and grandson, St. Peter holding the keys to the Kingdom, St. Joseph with his stick and a carpenter's tool at his waist , and finally, last on the right, San Carlo Borromeo...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM WARHAM, Old Masters Oil on Wood
Located in London, GB
after HANS HOLBEIN THE YOUNGER
1497 – 1543
PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM WARHAM
Oil on canvas
Image size: 38 x 35 inches (89 x 71 cm)
Hand made period style frame
The handling of the paint in...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Circle of David Teniers, Landscape with Peasants by an Inn and a River, Dutch
By David Teniers the Younger
Located in Greven, DE
Circle of Teniers, Peasants in a Landscape passing by a river and an Inn.
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$3,586 Sale Price
25% Off
Three studies executed in the Pitti Palace in 1761 by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Located in PARIS, FR
This brilliant study sheet, of which we present here a counterproof, is a souvenir of Fragonard's return journey from Italy. Between April and September 1761, he accompanied the abbot of Saint-Non on his way back to France. Three studies after the masters taken from the Pitti Palace’s gallery in Florence are gathered on this sheet. Although The Ecstasy of Saint Margaret...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Painting with The Rape of the Sabine Women, 17th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Roman school of the 17th century.
The large scene depicts the famous episode somewhere between real history and legend, first recounted by Titus Livius in his "Ab urb...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
17th Century Classical Oil Painting - Diana With Her Attendants in a Grotto
By Abraham van Cuylenborch
Located in London, GB
Abraham van CUYLENBROCH (1620-1658)
Diana With Her Attendants in a Grotto
1651
signed
oil on panel
12.2 in x 15.7 inches, inc. frame;
31 x 40 cm
Provenance:
Sale of Sotheby's Lo...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
Venetian Baroque religious figurative painting from the 17th century
Located in Florence, IT
This painting (oil on paper applied to wood panel, 18 x 12, 5 cm) is a valuable example of the production of small-format works, thus aimed at a private audience, which was very comm...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Wood Panel
Florentine Neoclassical Allegory Landscape Painting from a Villa tempera canvas
Located in Florence, IT
The work, tempera on canvas in a great state of conservation, is part of a series of four big paintings of various authors documented in origin in the Villa La Zambra in Sesto Fioren...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Tempera
Mary Magdalene - Oil on Canvas by Italian School 19th cent.
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas. cm 60.5 x 2 x 50
Nice Oil painting (Italian School of XIX century) with a rapid sign and intense colors backgrpound. Some color cracking on left margin and top edge, ...
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
$3,586 Sale Price
25% Off
Pair of Italian 18' century Paintings with Gardens
Located in Rome, IT
Pair of Italian 18' century paintings , oil on canvas with Venetian Palace gardens , antiques sculptures and various figures .
Measurements with frame cm 75 x101
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
17th Century Allegory of Charity Carlo Cignani Madonna and Child Oil on Canvas
By Carlo Cignani
Located in Sanremo, IT
Painting, oil on canvas, with dimensions of 105 x 120 cm without frame and 125 x 140 with a beautiful carved frame depicting the 'allegory of charity and love with a woman with three...
Category
Italian School 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$6,716 Sale Price
25% Off
Antique painting. "Kings from all over the world in Bethlehem". Christian scene.
Located in Berlin, DE
Huge and very decorative castle painting.
Antique oil painting. Probably 18th century.
"Kings from all over the world in Bethlehem".
Christian scene.
Canvas relined.
Big, heavy fr...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Girl, 17th Century English School Old Masters Oil
By Gilbert Jackson
Located in London, GB
Gilbert Jackson
English Active: 1620 - 1650
Portrait of a Girl
Oil on panel, signed upper left and Inscribed upper right
Image size: 24 ½ x 20 inches
Contemporary style hand made...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
The cabbage cutter
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Jean-Baptiste SANTERRE
(Magny-en-Vexin, 1658- Paris, 1717)
The cabbage cutter
Oil on canvas
H. 86 cm; L. 70 cm
Jean-Baptiste Santerre began his apprent...
Category
French School 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Of A Lady As Diana, 17th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Lady As Diana, 17th Century
Dutch School
Large 17th Century Dutch Old Master portrait of a lady as Diana, oil on canvas . Exc...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Old Master, Joseph Vivien, Mme Silvestre, French Rococo, Pastel
By Joseph Vivien
Located in Greven, DE
The portrait shows Mme Silvestre.
Born in Paris, Silvestre was the daughter of Charles-Antoine Hérault and his wife Marie-Geneviève, who were her first teachers. In 1706 she married the painter Louis de Silvestre, moving with him in 1716 to Dresden. The couple's daughter Marie-Maximilienne became a pastellist. Silvestre died in Dresden, the year before her husband retired and returned to Paris. Her surviving pastels show the influence of Rosalba Carriera...
Category
Rococo 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Oil Pastel
Female Head, Andrea del Sarto, Sphere of, post 1522
Located in Milan, IT
Tempera on wood depicting a half-length female figure;
she wears a red dress over a light-colored tunic, while a
green drape rests on her right shoulder. The red hair is
tied up with a central parting and is partly covered by a
white headdress; the full face has an absorbed
expression: a thoughtful gaze, arched eyebrows and
slightly furrowed lips.
Presented in a frame made with parts of an ancient
larger frame.
Historical-critical analysis:
Our table in question is one of the numerous derivations
from a lost fresco by Andrea del Sarto...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Winter Landscape Foschi Paint 18th CEntury Paint Oil on canvas Old master Italy
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Francesco Foschi (Ancona, 1710 - Rome, 1780) Attributable
Winter landscape
Oil on canvas
76 x 63 cm. - In frame 87 x 75 cm.
The compositional and stylistic elements of this pleasan...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
$6,085 Sale Price
20% Off
18th Century portrait oil painting of a gentleman
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Follower of Enoch Seeman the Younger
German, (1694-1744)
Portrait of Gilbert Sympkin
Oil on canvas
Image size: 29.25 inches x 24.5 inches
Size including frame: 38 inches x 33.25 inches
A fine three quarter length portrait of a gentleman traditionally identified as Gilbert Simpkin (Sympkin), follower of Enoch Seeman the younger, C1720. The portrait is set in a feigned sculptured oval cartouche, a device used to give a sense of depth. The sitter is depicted wearing a fashionable blue jacket and matching waistcoat with a white chemise and lace jabot. He wears a powdered wig in the fashionable style of the day and is posed holding his hat under his left arm with the fingers of his right hand stretched out. At court, long fingers signified wealth, culture and intelligence. The painting has clearly been executed by an artist of great ability who has been influenced by Enoch Seeman the younger.
Gilbert Simpkin (Sympkin) was born in London on 24 August 1683, the son of John Simpkin and Susannah Butler. His grandfather was also called Gilbert Simpkin. He entered Oxford University in 1700 where he studied at St John’s College. In 1702, he became a student of Middle Temple, which at the time was one of the world’s most important centres of legal education. He later settled in Plymouth and then Bristol. He died in Bristol on 15 May, 1744 and was buried at Bristol Cathedral. He remained unmarried and the portrait may well have been commissioned to commemorate when he was first Called to the Bar or perhaps had established his own practice.
Enoch Seeman or Seemann the younger was born in Danzig, Germany now Gdansk, Poland in 1694. His father was Enoch Seeman Senior, an artist of Flemish origin and his brothers Isaac, Noah and Abraham also became artists. He came to London with his father and brothers around 1704 and established himself as a portrait artist. From 1717 he became painter to the Royal court painting...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Very Large, 16th Century Allegorical Oil Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beyond life-sized, allegorical, Renaissance figural oil painting of Summer, featuring a nymph recessed in an alcove, swathed in drapery, wearing a foliate crown. In her right hand, a...
Category
Renaissance 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Self Portrait of Schildbach, Court Painter Schildbach, Gotha, Convex Copper
Located in Greven, DE
Christian Schildbach was a very talented artist with his own style.
Art painter in Plauen, then court painter in Dresden; around 1706 art painter in Vienna, also active in Bamberg (...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Copper
An Allegory for Smell
Located in London, GB
Dutch School
An Allegory for Smell
17th Century
Oil on canvas
Image size: 19 x 14.5 cm
Dutch ebonised frame
This painting depicts a rather smelly scene - a young boy bent over his f...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil, Oak, Panel
Scope of Jan Both ( Utrecht, 1618-1652) Latial landscape with bridge and shepherds
Located in Firenze, IT
Italian landscape with a bridge, tower, shepherd and animals.
Scope of Jan Both ( Utrecht, 1618-1652), arrival in Rome and Venice in addition to his native Holland.
The 17th-century...
Category
Dutch School 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,865 Sale Price
36% Off
Windmill, William Henry Crome (1768–1821)
By William Henry Crome
Located in GB
This painting attributed to William Henry Crome depicting a windmill is characterized by his early 19th-century English landscape style, often associated with the Norwich School. Cro...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dipinto ritratto femminile figurativo barocco emiliano del XVII secolo
By Girolamo Negri called Il Boccia
Located in Florence, IT
olio su tela, 62 x 51 cm (senza cornice)
Il dipinto è stato per lungo attribuito alla mano di Francesco Gessi, allievo di Guido Reni, come riporta un'iscrizione a matita datata 1945...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Oil on Panel Flemish Religious Painting Madonna with Child, 1670
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Antique Flemish panel from the first half of the 17th century. Oil painting depicting a splendid Madonna with child inside a niche surrounded by a garland of masterfully painted flow...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
$8,597 Sale Price
20% Off
Frans Wouters, Adoration of The Herders, Christmas Scene, Christ, Flemish School
Located in Greven, DE
Frans Wouters was a Flemish Baroque painter who mainly created smaller cabinet pieces.
He was initially apprenticed to Pieter van Avont in Antwerp, but then moved to Rubens‘ worksho...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oak, Oil
Portrait of Lady Mansfield of Ringwood
Located in London, GB
Portrait of Lady Mansfield of Ringwood
Oil on Canvas
Image size: 25 x 30 inches (63 x 76 cm)
Original carved & gilded frame
POA
Provenance
Descended through the Family Estate
The y...
Category
English School 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th Century Venice Jacopo Fabris Venice Rialto Bridge Oil on Canvas Blue
Located in Sanremo, IT
Painting oil on canvas measuring 70 x 90 cm without frame and 82 x 102 cm with frame depicting View of the Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge.
The work under examination depicting a...
Category
Italian School 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life Of Flowers In A Vase, 17th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Still Life Of Flowers In A Vase, 17th Century
circle of JEAN BAPTISTE MONNOYER (1636-1699)
Large 17th century French Old Master Still Life of various flowers in a vase upon a mantle, oil on canvas by Jean Baptiste Monnoyer. Excellent quality and condition example of the famous still life painters work, authenticated from the published designs of Nicolas de Poilly...
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18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century By Giuseppe Caletti The Court Jester From Dosso Dossi Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Beautiful original frame in carved and gilded wood.
Oral expertise by Prof. Enrico Maria Dal Pozzolo.
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Modernist Cubist Painting Montmartre Paris
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sacre Coeur, Montmartre, Paris
by Maurice Mazeilie (French, 1924-2021)
watercolor painting on artist paper, unframed
unsigned
stamped verso
A boldly painted view with a tree in full ...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
English 17th century portrait of John Ludford Esquire
By Mary Beale
Located in Bath, Somerset
Portrait of John Ludford (1653-1681), wearing a lace jabot and brown and gold trimmed cloak in a feigned stone oval cartouche. Inscribed 'John Ludford, Esq, nat. 14th March 1653, Ob,...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$12,127 Sale Price
20% Off
French Modernist Cubist Painting Travellers on a Path
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Travellers on a path
by Maurice Mazeilie (French, 1924-2021)
watercolor painting on artist paper, unframed
unsigned
stamped verso
Easy on the eye painting of figures on a path, a sig...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
French Modernist Cubist Painting a Summer Day's Sailing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
A Summer Day's Sailing
by Maurice Mazeilie (French, 1924-2021)
watercolor painting on artist paper, unframed
unsigned
stamped verso
A summer feel to this sunny image by a small harbo...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
French Modernist Cubist Painting Sailboats on the Coast
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sailboats on the Coast
by Maurice Mazeilie (French, 1924-2021)
watercolor painting on artist paper, unframed
signed faintly lower right
stamped verso
A breezy day on the North French...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
French Modernist Cubist Painting Fishing Boats by Coastal Fortification
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Fishing boats by Coastal Fortification
by Maurice Mazeilie (French, 1924-2021)
watercolor painting on artist paper, unframed
unsigned
stamped verso
Gentle composition of a coastal sc...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
17th century portrait of lady in an ivory silk gown and lace collar
By Cornelius Johnson
Located in Bath, Somerset
Circle of Cornelius Johnson (1593-1661), a 17th century portrait of a lady, bust-length oval, wearing an ivory silk gown with blue silk bows and lace c...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$16,552 Sale Price
25% Off
18th Century portrait oil painting of a girl with an orange
By Robert Byng
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Circle of Robert Byng
British, (1666-1720)
Girl with Orange
Oil on canvas
Image size: 29 inches x 24 inches
Size including frame: 36 inches x 31 inc...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Joseph Holding the Christ Child
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Private Collection, Argentina.
A work of great delicacy and intimacy, this small painting on copper by Pietro Bardellino treats a subject which grew in popularity during the Baroque period: Saint Joseph and the Christ child...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Copper
French Modernist Cubist Painting Figure by the Harbour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figure by the Harbour
by Maurice Mazeilie (French, 1924-2021)
watercolor painting on artist paper, unframed
unsigned
stamped verso
The addition of the figure in red is a feature Maze...
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18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Adoration of the Shepherds Oil painting on canvas attributed to Luca Cattapane
Located in Milan, IT
Luca Cattapane (Cremona, 1597-1620), attr.
Adoration of the Shepherds
Oil on canvas, 110 x 90 cm - with frame 129 x 101 cm
Ascribed to the Lombard school of the late 16th century,...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
1700's Venetian Old Master Ink Drawing St. Marks Lion Angelic Figures Flowers
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Lion of St. Mark
Venetian Old Master, mid 18th century
circle of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venetian, 1696-1770)
ink and watercolour drawing on paper mounted on a card frame, unf...
Category
Rococo 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
$1,249 Sale Price
30% Off
Alessio de Marchis workshop (Italian baroque) - 18th century landscape painting
By Alessio de Marchis (Naples, 1684 - Perugia, 1752)
Located in Varmo, IT
Alessio de Marchis (Naples 1684 - Perugia or Urbino 1752) circle of - Arcadian Landscape with Shepherds and Flock.
60 x 72 cm unframed, 74 x 86 cm with frame.
Ancient oil painting ...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th Century French Modernist Cubist Painting, Mona Lisa Study
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sepia ink and mixed media portrait, the artist's take on the Mona Lisa
by Bernard Labbe (French Mid-20th Century)
original sepia ink, pencil, gouache, watercolor on paper
image size:...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
17th Century Old Master Religious Oil painting - Rest on the Flight into Egypt
By Pier Francesco Mola
Located in London, GB
Attributed to Pier Francesco MOLA, called Il TICINESE (1612-1666)
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
oil on canvas
25.5 x 27 inches including ...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
18th Century French Portrait Jean-Baptiste Soyer
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful pastel on paper laid down on canvas in an oval shape.
It depicts a young noblewoman portrayed three-quarter-length with her little dog in her arms.
Seated in a gilded armch...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Glass, Wood, Paper, Pastel
Portrait of Ralph William Grey
Located in London, GB
Provenance
By descent through the sitter's family to
The Collection of R. W. Vivian-Neal of Poundisford Park, Somerset, from whom acquired by
With Lane Fine Art, UK, where purchased by the present owners in 1996
Literature
'Poundisford Park, Somerset' in Country Life, 22 December 1934, ill.
A.W. and C.M. Vivian-Neal, Poundisford Park, Somerset: A catalogue of pictures and furniture, Taunton 1939, cat. nos. 11 and 13
This is a three-quarter-length portrait of Ralph William Grey in a mole-coloured velvet coat and a long waistcoat of green satin, heavily embroidered in gold. Under his left right hand is a black chapeau bras. He has white doe-skin gauntlet gloves.
Son of William and Ann Grey of Backworth: born 19 December 1707. He married Mary the daughter of William Rawstorne of Newall in 1741 and died 5 November 1786. He was educated at Eaton and Trinity College, Oxford.
Within a year of his birth Mrs Grey died and, according to the Country Life article 'From that time forward all Mr Grey's faculties were concentrated on the well-being of his son. The possession of an heir gave zest to his efforts to build up the family fortune: he was successful in most of his ventures. Years later his interest in life was centred in the home of his daughter-in-law and grandchildren'.
Grey's right hand is depicted in the present portrait resting on Locke's Essays and the Country Life article also records that there are constant references to John Locke...
Category
English School 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Lamb of God
By (After) Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
Bartolome Esteban Murillo 1617- 1682, was a Spanish Baroque painter best known for his Religious works. This painting of Christ giving water to a lamb is in the manner of Murillo and...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Brass
A poodle chasing a butterfly
By Ben Marshall
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Ben Marshall (1768-1835)
A poodle chasing a butterfly
Oil on canvas
Canvas size 10 x 12 in
Framed size 15 x 17 in
Provenance
The Collection of the late David Fuller, former Director...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pair of Italian 18th Century Tempera on Canvas Classical Paintings "Capriccio"
By Pietro Paltronieri
Located in Rome, IT
A fine pair of huge Italian 18' century Capriccio with Classical ruins, tempera oil on canvas .
Atr.Pietro Paltronieri, il Mirandolese (Mirandola 1673-1741 Bologna).
Measurements ...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Tempera
"Da Tour Boileau (Beauvais)"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Attributed to François Boucher (1703–1770) – "Da Tour Boileau (Beauvais)"
Artist: Attributed to François Boucher (attributed)
Title: "Da Tour Boileau (Beauvais)"
Medium: Oil on can...
Category
Realist 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Saint Anthony Of Padua, 17th Century Circle of CARLO DOLCI (1616-1686)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Saint Anthony Of Padua, 17th Century
Circle of CARLO DOLCI (1616-1686)
17th century Italian Old Master depiction of Saint Anthony of Padua, oi...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Attributed à H. Francken II, 17th c. Anwerp - The prodigal son among courtesans
Located in PARIS, FR
The Prodigal Son Among Courtesans
Attributed to Hieronymus Francken II (Antwerp 1578-1623)
Early 17th century Antwerp school
Oil on oak panel,
Dimensions: H. 52.5 cm (20.67 in), W. 74 cm (29.14 in)
Flemish-style moulded wood frame
Frame: h. 78 cm (h. 30.70 in.), w. 100 cm (39.37 in.)
At first glance, this festive and joyful painting depicts a group of elegantly dressed people dancing to the sound of an orchestra in a richly decorated interior with a wide opening onto a rural exterior. However, the real theme is cleverly concealed by the painter and is only discernible through the artifice of a small scene in the background where we see a half-naked man, in the company of the pigs next to a makeshift shelter.
In fact, beyond the pleasant and apparently superficial character of the painting, it is a subject taken from the parable of the prodigal son in the Gospel. The illustrated episode is the prodigal son among courtesans.
Even if the viewer's attention is drawn to the central couple (prodigal son embracing a pretty courtesan) doing the dance steps, the artist takes care in a narrative approach of all the groups and ancillary scenes in order to create a rich and varied composition. Thus the musicians seated on a raised platform are depicted with great skill, their faces animated, their clothes abundantly varied.
The theme of music, which has always been associated with that of sensuality and physical love, helps to exacerbate licentious pleasures.
The merry company dances "Spanish pavane", a slow court dance from the sixteenth century, danced close to the ground by couples arranged in a procession, which was probably introduced to the south of the Netherlands around 1600 during the governance of Albrecht VII and the daughter of the King of Spain Isabella Clara Eugenia in Brussels.
The interior of the house is also carefully elaborated, the embossed leather dyes on the walls, the middle sideboard (typical in Francken interiors), where the rich gold and silver crockery is placed in front of the painting "Andromeda chained to the rock and Perseus arriving to rescue her". The inclusion of a contemporary and probably extant pictorial work is also one of the characteristics of the Francken family, among them Frans Francken the Younger...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oak, Oil
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The Real World Portraitist of “The Gilded Age,” Season Three
Only the best painter could suit the calculatedly extravagant Bertha Russell.
See Kent Monkman’s Magical Realist Take on Frontier History
With a solo show at the Denver Art Museum and a commission from the Met, the Cree Canadian painter has become an international sensation.
Yale’s Trove of British Art Is Back on View in a Refreshed Louis Kahn Building
After a two-year closure, they Yale Center for British Art opens its doors again, with all sorts of changes to its building and programming.
At 89, Artist Lucio Pozzi Is Reaching New Career Heights
The Italian-American’s 2020 abstract painting “The Hoe” personifies his “art of not knowing.”
The 1stDibs Guide to Types of Abstract Art
Get to know the key movements and artists who have influenced visual culture for more than a century.
With a Show at MoMA, Marlon Mullen Paints Pictures That Are beyond Words
The nonspeaking California artist is having a moment, with vivacious paintings that play on art-magazine covers as well as more mysterious abstractions.
The Vibrant Beauty of Orphist Art Supersedes Its Perplexing Name
This kaleidoscopic early-modern art style has long deserved another look. Now, the Guggenheim museum is doing just that.
The 50 Most Expensive Paintings Ever Sold
Curious about the most expensive paintings in the world? Discover the stories behind these masterpieces as well as the staggering prices they fetched.