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Period: 18th Century
Attributed J S Copley Two Nobles Portrait Paintings 18 century pastel parchment
Located in Florence, IT
On the cardboard applied on the frame there is an annotation, belonging to some of the old owners, reporting the names of the portrayed in Kurrent handwriting: "Urgroßvater Ludwig Fr(ei)h(e)r(r) von Keller" "Urgroßmutter Fr(ei)h(e)r(rin) von Keller geb(oren) von Niebecker". So we can deduce that the models were Ludwig Friedrich Heinrich Ferdinand Baron of Keller (1760-1835), a German politician who was the director of the district of Prussia, and his wife Auguste Johanne Henriette Baroness of Niebecker (1760-1832).
Their high class provenience is highlighted by the not contained expressive liveliness, by the proud pose imitating movement and by the elegance of the clothes which fabric seems palpable (especially sincere is the evanescent depiction of the pleated veil of the gorget and the adorned with arabesques decoration of the sleeves and the vest).
The two pieces can be attributed to John Singleton Copley...
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Other Art Style 18th Century Paintings
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Pastel, Parchment Paper, Cardboard
Ships Sailing Off The Coast, circa 1800 Thomas LUNY (1759-1837) - one of a pair
By Thomas Luny
Located in Blackwater, GB
Ships Sailing Off The Coast, circa 1800
Thomas LUNY (1759-1837) - one of a pair
Huge 18th/19th century English shipping scene of various vessels off the coast with figures looking ...
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18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Still Life of Peonies, Roses, Honeysuckle, Poppies, and other Flowers
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait Marianne Cogny De Troy Paint Oil on canvas 17/18th Century Old master
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Workshop/Circle of François de Troy (Toulouse 1645 – Paris 1730)
Portrait of a young lady (probably Marianne de Cogny, epouse de Philippe-Emmanuel de Beaufort...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil Painting by George Romney "Portraits of a Lady and Gentleman"
Located in Mere, GB
Oil Painting Pair circle of by George Romney "Portraits of a Lady and Gentleman" 1734 - 1802 Romney was a leadway society portrait painter of the Georgian ear...
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18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Peter Paul Rubens, copy from, Oil on Canvas , "L'arc en ciel" XVIII Century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil painting on canvas. The large pastoral scene presents a broad landscape that pushes the gaze to the distant sea coast; on it the sky is gradually opening up, revealing flashes of blue on the left, while on the right, among the darker clouds left over from the storm, a large rainbow is revealed. In the foreground, a group of shepherds and shepherdesses enjoy amorous games, discrete and festive, in the midst of their herds, which rest and drink from the nearby stream. The whole scene is animated by a dimension of joyful relaxation and refreshment, as if the rainbow had restored serenity to the environment, bringing light and with it serenity to the world. it is a copy after a famous painting by Sir Peter Paul Rubens...
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Other Art Style 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
18th century oil sketches for a Baroque interior - a pair
Located in London, GB
A FEAST OF THE GODS WITH VENUS AND BACCHUS
Collections:
With Appleby Brothers, London, June 1957;
Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1961;
John and Eileen Harris, acquired from the above, to 2015.
Literature:
Jacob Simon and Ellis Hillman, English Baroque Sketches: The Painted Interior in the Age of Thornhill, 1974, cat. no.12 (as by Louis Laguerre);
Elizabeth Einberg (ed.), Manners and Morals: Hogarth and British Painting, 1700-1760, exh. cat., London (Tate Gallery), 1987, cat. no.10 (as by Louis Laguerre);
Tabitha Barber and Tim Bachelor, British Baroque: Power and Illusion, exh. cat., London (Tate Britain), 2020.
Exhibited:
Twickenham, Marble Hill House, English Baroque Sketches: The Painted Interior in the Age of Thornhill, 1974, no.12 (as by Louis Laguerre);
London, Tate Gallery, Manners and Morals: Hogarth and British Painting, 1700-1760, 1987, no.10 (as by Louis Laguerre);
London, Tate Britain, British Baroque: Power and Illusion, cat. no 92, 2020.
CUPID AND PSYCHE BEFORE JUPITER
Collections:
With Appleby Brothers, London, June 1957;
Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1961;
Anthony Hobson, acquired from the above, to 2015.
These recently re-united paintings are the most ambitious surviving baroque ceiling sketches made in Britain in the early eighteenth century. From the Restoration until the rise of Palladianism in the 1720s decorative history painting formed the preeminent artistic discipline in Britain. It was a field dominated by Continental artists including the Italian Antonio Verrio and the Frenchmen Louis Laguerre and Louis Chéron...
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Baroque 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Huge Antique English Aristocratic Portrait of Baronet, Fine Ancestral Portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English School, 18th/ 19th century
Portrait of Sir Wolstan Dixie, 4th Baronet *see notes below on sitter
oil painting on canvas, unframed
50 x 40 inches
condition: the painting is in very satisfactory condition without any damage, tears or punctures to the canvas. It is very original and would benefit from a clean ideally, slight scuffing to the edges of canvas.
provenance: private collection, Leicestershire, England
* The sitter is Sir Wolstan Dixie (4th Baronet, born 1700). Although the family came from a yeoman family of Huntingdonshire, his ancestor, also Sir Wolstan, made a fortune in the City as a merchant, and served as Lord Mayor of London in 1585-6, Sir Wolstan (the 1st Baronet) acquired the manor of Market Bosworth in west Leicestershire and in 1592, having no children...
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Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mary & Jesus, 18th Century French Old Master oil painting on canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 18th century
Title: Mary and Jesus
Medium: oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 17 x 14.5 inches
Canvas: 16 x 12.75 inches
Provenance: private collection...
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Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
18th C, Original Oil on Canvas, Attrib. THOMAS PATCH (UK, 1725-1782), Caricature
Located in Framingham, MA
Up for sale is an unusual unique antique 18-century original oil painting on board depicting a figure of a gentleman wearing a white wig and dressed in a red jacket and white jabot, typical of the period. His face is almost comical in its expression and exaggerated features.
Possibly part of a larger composition. Attributed to THOMAS PATCH...
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Impressionist 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Shipping in Calm Waters, 18th Century Dutch Oil on Wood Panel, Man o War
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Shipping in Calm Waters
Dutch School, 18th century
oil painting on wood panel
panel: 10 x 12.75 inches
framed: 14 x 17 inches
condition: very good, minor evidenc...
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Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
French Old Master The Garden of Gethsemane Unusual Shape Panel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 18th century
Title: The Garden of Gethsemane
Medium: oil painting on wooden panel, unframed.
painting: measurem...
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Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Italian Landscape, a drawing by Louis-Jean Desprez (1743 - 1804)
Located in PARIS, FR
This landscape, masterfully executed in pen and wash by Louis-Jean Desprez around 1779, probably represents a view of the Roman countryside. The treatment of the trees is very similar to that of two engravings which Desprez executed in Rome, The Island of Cythera and The Temple of Love.
1. Louis-Jean Desprez, a cosmopolitan life between Italy and Sweden
Born in Auxerre in 1743, Louis-Jean Desprez probably began his apprenticeship with the engraver Charles-Nicolas Cochin...
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Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Ink
Set of four very large 18th century Italian Rococo paintings of the Four Seasons
Located in London, GB
Set of four large 18th century Italian Rococo paintings of the Four Seasons
Italian, 18th Century
Frames: height 98cm, width 201.5cm, depth 5cm...
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Rococo 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gondolas - Oil Paint by a follower of Bernardo Bellotto - Late 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Gondolas on the Canale Grande, Venice is an old master artwork realized by a follower of Bernardo Bellotto in the Late 18th Century.
Mixed colored o...
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Modern 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Baroque English Portrait of boy and his dog
By (Follower of) Sir Godfrey Kneller
Located in San Antonio, TX
Late 17th/early 18th century portrait of a boy. This portrait is in the manner of Sir Godfrey Kneller, however it lacks a signature and documentation. It would not look out of place in an English country house. The Portrait is of a young English boy...
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Baroque 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Milkgirl, Rococo-Style, Unknown Artist, Pastel Drawing
Located in brussel, BE
Not only in the 17th century, but also in the 18th century, genre painting, where people are portrayed in their daily life, was successful. The theme of the milkmaid, which we all kn...
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Rococo 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Portrait of a Gentleman
Located in London, GB
Peters was born in Freshwater, Isle of Wight, the son of Matthew Peters (born at Belfast, 1711), a civil engineer and member of the Royal Dublin Society; by Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of George Younge of Dublin. The family moved from England to Dublin when Peters was young, where his father "advised on the improvement of loughs and rivers for navigation" and published two treatises on the subject.
Peters received his artistic training from Robert West in Dublin; in 1756 and 1758 he received prizes from the first School of Design in Dublin. In 1759, he was sent by the Dublin Society to London to become a student of Thomas Hudson and won a premium from the Society of Arts. The group also paid for him to travel to Italy to study art from 1761 to 1765. On 23 September 1762 he was elected to the Accademia del Disegno in Florence. Peters returned to England in 1765 and exhibited works at the Society of Artists from 1766 to 1769. Beginning in 1769, Peters exhibited works at the Royal Academy. In 1771 he was elected an associate and in 1777 an academician. He returned to Italy in 1771 and stayed until 1775. He also probably traveled to Paris in 1783–84, where he met Léopold Boilly, Antoine Vestier, and was influenced by the work of Jean-Baptiste Greuze.
On 27 February 1769, Peters became a freemason, and he was made the grand portrait painter of the Freemasons and the first provincial grand master of Lincolnshire in 1792. In 1785, he exhibited portraits of the Duke of Manchester...
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Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of Jean-Pierre Tournes (1759-1826)
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Empire plaster frame and gilded wood
42 x 38 x 5 cm
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
large 18th century portrait gentleman oil on canvas
Located in York, GB
A fine, imposing 18th century portrait of an unknown aristocrat,housed in a gilt frame
The artist is also unidentified but certainly a talented hand, in the circle of one of the fine old masters of the period
The size overall is 148 x 121 cm whilst the painting is 128 x 101 cm
In overall good condition the frame at the bottom has bowed slightly
The painting has been checked whilst being cleaned and has not been affected in any way .
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Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mythology Monochrome Frieze Tuscan Neoclassic Art Pietro Benvenuti 18th century
Located in Florence, IT
This interesting grisaille […] of a high standard of quality and in an excellent state of conservation, represents an interesting derivation with slight variations from an engraving,...
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Other Art Style 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Virgin and Child, a paiting by David Teniers the Younger after Palma Vecchio
Located in PARIS, FR
Provenance:
Dukes of Marlborough Collection, Blenheim Palace until its sale at Christie's London on 26 July 1886 (lot 172)
English private collection until its sale at Christie's London on 11 December 1992 (lot 363)
Erna Weidinger Collection (1923 - 2021) - Austria
Literature :
Georg Scharf - A list of the pictures in Blenheim Palace - Catalogue raisonné Part 2 - London 1862 (page 166 - number 199 "after Palma Giovane")
Charles Davies...
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Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oak, Oil
Costume of an envoy of Venice, a drawing by Francesco Galimberti (1755 - 1803)
Located in PARIS, FR
We thank Mrs. Bożena Anna Kowalczyk who suggested the attribution to Francesco Galimberti based on a photograph of the artwork.
This engaging drawing, finely executed in black and red chalks, depicts a Venetian diplomat in his 'new clothes...
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Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Chalk
18th Century portrait oil painting of a lady in an ermine trimmed cloak
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Circle of Sir Godfrey Kneller
Dutch, (1646-1723)
Portrait of a Lady in an Ermine Trimmed Cloak
Oil on canvas
Image size: 26.5 inches x 22.5 inches
Size including frame: 33.5 inches x 29.5 inches
A well-executed half-length portrait of a lady painted in a feigned oval, circle of Sir Godfrey Kneller. The use of a feigned oval was a device used in portraiture to give a sense of depth and add an intimacy to the painting, drawing your attention to the sitter.
The subject, posed without her wig in the undressed fashion of the day, wears a blue ermine trimmed blue cloak over a white silk robe...
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Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Animated landscape, a stopover for travelers on horseback
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Plaster and gilded wood frame
89.5 x 105 x 7 cm
Category
Italian School 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
18th Century large scale portrait oil painting of a lady with a lamb
By Arthur Pond
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Attributed to Arthur Pond
British, (1701-1758)
Portrait of a Lady
Oil on canvas
Image size: 50.75 inches x 41.5 inches
Size including frame: 58.5 inches x...
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18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a man in armor
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Attributed to Jacques DUMONT aka DUMONT LE ROMAIN
(Paris 1701 - 1781)
Presumed portrait of Louis-Joseph de Formanoir (?-1732)
Oil on canvas
H. 91.5 cm; ...
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French School 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
After Jean-Baptiste Van Loo, Portrait of King Louis XV of France (1710-1774)
Located in New York, NY
After Jean-Baptiste Van Loo, A Portrait of King Louis XV of France (1710-1774)
A magnificent quality three-quarter length portrait of King Louis XV of France and Navarre, painted in the 18th century after Jean-Baptiste Van Loo.
Oil on canvas, in the original carved and gilt wood frame.
Canvas: 40" high x 32" wide
Frame: 46.5" high x 39" wide
Very good condition, ready to hang. No damages noted.
The present composition follows a portrait of Louis XV painted by Jean-Baptiste Van Loo in 1726-1727, today in Versailles. (Oil on canvas. 198.5 by 143 cm. Inv. no. MV 6942.)
There were several full-length portraits painted by Van Loo of the young Louis XV, and all were executed in the years of or after his majority, 1723, when he took full control of government, wresting power from the Régent, his great-uncle Philippe, Duc d'Orléans. A slightly larger version (205 by 171 cm), in which the pose and surrounding paraphernalia mirrors that of the present work, is in the Château de Versailles, while another, in which Louis stands more front-on, his pointing right index-finger now tucked in, and with a different background arrangement, is also in Versailles. Further versions of this latter are in Nice, Musée Chéret and the Musée de Perpignan.
The composition of all of these full-lengths would appear to derive from Van Loo's large equestrian portrait of Louis XV, painted in collaboration with Charles Parrocel, which was commissioned in 1723 by the Surintendance for Charles de Lorraine. Louis is depicted in similar armour and costume, astride his horse, similarly turned three-quarters to the left and his right arm outstretched. Most subsequent depictions of Louis followed this original design, including, for example, Carle Van...
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18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait Of Richard Ripley, Royal Navy, circa 1755
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of Richard Ripley, Royal Navy, circa 1755
by Dominicus Van Der SMISSEN (1704-1760)
Large 18th Century English portrait of Richard Ripley esq, by Dominicus Van Der Smissen,...
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18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Scuola Italiana, Santa Maria d'Antiochia
Located in Balerna, TI
Scuola Fiorentina
Santa Maria d'Antiochia
olio su tela
Secolo XVIII
cm 85,5X63,3; con cornice cm 105X64X7.
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Italian School 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Huge 18th Century Italian Old Master Oil Painting Ancient Castle & Drawbridge
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
A Castle and Drawbridge by a lake with mountains beyond
Italian School, 18th century
oil painting on canvas: 25 x 29.75 inches
condition: relined, restored to a high standard, very ...
Category
Baroque 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique Spanish Old Master Oil on Wood Panel, Head Portrait of Christ
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: 18/19th Century Spanish School
Title :Head study of Christ
Medium: oil painting on wood panel, period gilt framed
panel : 6 x 5 inches
Provenance: private collect...
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Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Oil Painting Hunting Dogs with Game, Roman Ruins
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Italian School, early 18th century
The painting is almost certainly from the circle of the Italian Baroque painter known as 'Rosa da Napoli', Jacob Roos (Rome 1682-Na...
Category
Baroque 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Irish Portrait of Distinguished Gentleman, Large 18th Century Painting
By Gilbert Stuart
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Bust Portrait of a wigged man in a Brown Coat
Circle of Gilbert Stuart (1755 - 1828) Irish
oil on canvas, unframed
size: 30 x 25 inches
condition: ver...
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Victorian 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Late 18th century Antique English Moonlight over a lake and church landscape
By Henry Pether
Located in Woodbury, CT
Henry Pether, late 18th-century Moonlight lake Landscape.
Born into a family of artists, Henry was the son of Abraham Pether (1756-1812), a talented la...
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Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Sibyl Lady Zanotti Paint Oil on canvas Old master 18th Century Italian
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Portrait of an Eritrean Sibyl who writes the prophecy
Circle of Lorenzo Pasinelli (Bologna 1629 - 1700) - Attributable to Giampietro Cavazzoni Zanotti ...
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Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
French School, Portrait of a Lady, Actress, Young Woman, French , Rococo, Oval
Located in Greven, DE
French Art
Rococo
Portrait of a Woman, Young Lady, perhaps an actress
Category
Rococo 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Portrait Johann Theodor Bavaria, Son of Prince Elector, by Joseph Vivien, Rococo
By Joseph Vivien
Located in Greven, DE
Portrait of Johann Theodor of Bavaria (1703-1763)
by Joseph Vivien
Johann Theodor of Bavaria (* September 3, 1703 in Munich; † January 27, 1763 in Lièg...
Category
Rococo 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Diana Bathing 18th Century Oil on Canvas by Friedrich Olenhanz 1765-1839
Located in LA BOUILLE, FR
"As the incarnate of dawn shines in the morning, such a blushed Diane's complexion exposed without veils to the eyes of a mortal" Les Métamorphoses by Ovide
Less tragic is our destin...
Category
French School 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Dead Canary, 18th Century
By Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Located in Blackwater, GB
The Dead Canary, 18th Century
circle of Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805)
18th Century French School portrait of a girl and her dead canary, oil on canvas. Beautiful oval study of t...
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
After Simone Cantarini, Rest on the Flight into Egypt, early 17th, ceramic
Located in Florence, IT
This painting is inspired by the "Rest on the Flight into Egypt" by Simone Cantarini called Il Pesarese, who was an Italian painter and etcher. He is ...
Category
Baroque 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Ceramic
Portrait Of Gertrude Durnford, Lady Alston (1731-1807), 18th Century
By Joshua Reynolds
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of Gertrude Durnford, Lady Alston (1731-1807), 18th Century
Studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)
Large 18th Century English portrait ...
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
18th century portrait of the painter Nathaniel Dance
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Robert Gallon (1845-1925);
Private Collection, UK.
Oil on canvas laid down on panel
Framed dimensions: 11.5 x 10 inches
This highly engaging, previously unpublished portrait by Johan...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel, Canvas
Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset (1688-1745), 18th Century Michae
By Michael Dahl
Located in Blackwater, GB
Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset (1688-1745), 18th Century
Michael DAHL (1659-1743)
Large 18th Century English portrait of Lionel Sackvi...
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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 f...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
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...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Heinrich Adam Elias Borny (1742 - 1778) Soldier - 18thC Ink Drawing - Germany
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Heinrich Adam Elias Borny
(German, 1742-1778)
• Late baroque Ink and pen drawing on laid paper (no watermark)
• Sheet, ca. 29.4 x 22.7 cm
• Imag...
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Baroque 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Ink, Laid Paper
Still Life with Fish and Large Copper Pot, Late 18th Century Spanish Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 24 x 28 1/2 inches (61 x 73 cm)
Contemporary style hand made frame
This is an incredibly carefully executed work. On what appears to be a wooden ledge we see a plate of freshwater fish, possibly a roach, a copper pot, a larger terracota pot...
Category
Realist 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two military studies, a preparatory red chalk drawing by Jean-Baptiste Pater
By Jean-Baptiste Pater
Located in PARIS, FR
As Florence Ingersoll-Smouse wrote in 1921 in her book devoted to Jean-Baptiste Pater, "a painter of the Fête galante, Pater is interesting both by his intimacy with Watteau, to whom many of his works are still attributed, and by his own value as an artist.” This sanguine, full of life and spontaneity, is typical of the preparatory studies made by the painter to be used later in the composition of his paintings.
1. Jean-Baptiste Pater, pupil and disciple of Antoine Watteau
Antoine Pater, Jean-Baptiste's father, belonged to the petty bourgeoisie of Valenciennes where he worked as a merchant-sculptor. His brother Jacques was a local painter who was probably involved in his nephew's training. Born on December 29, 1695, Jean-Baptiste Pater was first trained with Jean-Baptiste Guider, a local painter whose death in 1711 was probably the reason for Jean-Baptiste’s departure alongside Watteau, who was visiting Valenciennes. Watteau's difficult character led to their separation in 1713.
Back in Valenciennes, Jean-Baptiste Pater encountered difficulties with the powerful Corporation of Saint-Luke (to which he refused to belong) which forced him to return to Paris in 1718. He reconciled with Watteau shortly before his death (on July 18th 1721), inherited the commissions that Watteau had been unable to fulfil and completed some of his paintings.
Pater was accepted by the Académie Royale in 1725 but did not produce his reception painting The soldier’s revels until three years later. Throughout his brief career (he died at the age of forty on July 25th 1736), he mainly had a clientele of amateurs and received only one royal commission, shortly before his death.
2. Description of the drawing and related artworks
Pater had adopted his master Watteau's method of composition. His study drawings were carefully glued in a notebook and were used to animate his compositions.
His paintings sometimes suffer from a somewhat artificial composition, since the figures seem to be pasted one next to the other. This point has also been made about Watteau’s.
The theme of military scenes (which was at the time included in the genre of Fêtes galantes!) was one of Pater’s favourite subjects. Together with the Bathing Women...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Landscape See Paint Oil on canvas Flemish Old master 18th Century Italian Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Flemish painter active in Italy in the eighteenth century
Coastal landscape of the Mediterranean with architectures and figures
Oil painting on canvas (69 x 88 cm., in frame 80 x 100...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait Mrs. Cockerell (Frances Jackson) Niece of Samuel Pepys, 18th Century
By Thomas Gainsborough
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Mrs. Cockerell (Frances Jackson) Niece of Samuel Pepys, 18th Century
circle of Thomas GAINSBOROUGH
Large 18th Century portrait of Mrs Cockerell...
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
FINE ORIGINAL ANTIQUE 19th CENTURY INTERIOR SCN BRITISH OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING
Located in Ferndown, GB
OIL PAINTING Antique 19th Century Fine Quality Piece Gold Gilt frame ( damaged frame )
OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING BRITISH SCHOOL 19th Century in a G...
Category
Realist 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
18th Century Praying Madonna Giuseppe Bison Volto di Madonna Oil on Glass Blue
Located in Sanremo, IT
Painting oil on glass, depicting a praying Madonna measuring 55 x 45 without frame and 62 x 52 cm with frame by the painter Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (Palmanova 1762 - Milan 1844).
...
Category
Italian School 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Glass
The Witch of Endor - Oil Paint - End of 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Witch of Endor conjures up the specter of Samuel in front of King Saul is an old master artwork realized by a follower of Georg Andreas Wolfgang I between 18th and 19th century.
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Category
Modern 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
French School 18th Century - Seaside Landscape With Roman Ruins and Galleon
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
French School 18th Century
In the taste of Joseph VERNET (1714-1789)
Seaside Landscape with Roman Ruins and Galleon
Oil on canvas
Old Frame regilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 61 X 73...
Category
Academic 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Flight into Egypt, Cusco School XVII Century. Carved wood panel.
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Flight into Egypt, Cusco School XVII Century. Oil on convex panel. The panel is carved on the frame, making everything one single piece of wood.
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
English 18th century portrait of a water spaniel dog standing in a landscape
By George Stubbs
Located in Bath, Somerset
Circle of George Stubbs (1724-1806). English 18th century portrait of a water spaniel standing in a wooded landscape.
This charming painting is a wonderful example of the style of English dog painting made popular by artists such as George Stubbs and other sporting artists working in England in the 18th century who painted the dogs and horses of the aristocracy and wealthier classes. It follows in the ancient tradition of celebrating and commemorating our faithful canine companions through portraiture.
Oil on canvas in a giltwood frame
Provenance: Private collection, Somerset
George Stubbs (1724-1806) was classified in his lifetime as a sporting painter, and as such was excluded from full membership of the Royal Academy. He is best remembered for his paintings of horses and his conversation pieces. Having studied anatomy, Stubbs's pictures of horses are among the most accurate ever painted.
Stubbs was born in Liverpool, the son of a leather worker...
Category
English School 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
English 18th century portrait of a Lady and her Daughter in an interior
By (attributed to) Joseph Highmore
Located in Bath, Somerset
Portrait of a lady, three-quarter length, wearing a blue silk gown, seated in a classical interior, with her daughter in a pink gown standing beside her holding a sprig of blossom. T...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
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