19th Century Paintings

With a great view of the city of Naples off her bow and Mount Vesuvius off her stern there's no doubt where this Baltimore Clipper Brig is located. This very well executed portrait has great detail of the port and ship with great coloration throughout and great reflections of the ship on the water. The ship is shown in full sail with flags flying. The ship was owned and Captained by Griffith Jones, a Welshman born 1831. Port Madoc refers to the Welsh City of Porthmadog- it was spelled Portmadoc before 1974. Her sloped bow and stern along with her size are typical of a Baltimore Clipper but her masts are not as raked as often seen in ships of this design and she is square rigged, though there are historical paintings and drawings of other Baltimore Clippers built in this way. Most of what we know about the Brig EPHRATAH is due to the famous wreck of her sister ship FROLIC, though FROLIC was built much earlier. FROLIC is considered the most important wreck on the West Coast of the United States. Dr. Tom Layton of Stanford University connected the two ships in his research on FROLIC.  EPHRATAH was slightly larger than FROLIC at 230 tons, 152’ with a breadth of 22’. She was built in 1873 for Griffith Jones & Co. who would also sail as her master. Jones was Welsh by birth, born in 1831 in Llannor.  FROLIC was built in Baltimore's Gardner Brothers shipyard for the Opium Trade. When steamers came along in the late 1850's it was perfect timing for FROLIC to switch to the busy California trade, fueled by the new California Gold Rush. FROLIC was carrying a rich cargo when she was shipwrecked off Point Cabrillo, California in 1850. When it was discovered in the 1980's the wreck...

Hubert Thornley is one of the names used by William Thormley the well-known English late 19th-century marine scene. He was an active marine painter from the North of England. His wo...

Wonderful English Antique oil on canvas Pink and White Geranium flowers. Wallace was a painter during the latter part of the 19th century. He painted various subjects, but this is b...

Wonderful classic scene of Spaniel dogs chasing ducks by a river landscape by one of England's best-loved animal painters. George Armfield was a mid-Victorian painter of mostly dog scenes but also painted other animal subjects such as interiors with huntsmen and simple well-painted landscapes. He got his big break when Queen Victoria saw some of his work and commissioned him to paint a piece for her. His work was collected throughout the world and held in many important collections. This piece is in excellent condition and if framed in a wonderful antique frame. The Spaniel paintings...

KARL KAUFMANN Austrian, 1843 - 1901 VIEW OF VENICE signed & dated "K. Kaufmann 1894" (lower right) oil on canvas 38-3/4 x 56-1/8 inches (98 x 142 cm.) framed: 41-1/2 x 59-1/4 inches ...

Hippolyte Camille Delpy Oil on Canvas. Original frame Canvas Size: 18 x 33" (cm) Outside Frame Size: 25 x 40" (cm) Hippolyte Camille DELPY Hippolyte-Camille Delpy was born on Apr...

This fine late 19th-century Danish oil painting depicts a still life with roses. Two exquisitely rendered roses are nestled among leaves and buds. Emerging into the light from a dar...

Albert Fitch Bellows was an American landscape painter of the Hudson River School, born in Milford, Massachusetts. Bellows spent most of his remaining car...

Brush was a pupil of Jean-Léon Gérôme in Paris and became a member of the National Academy of Design, New York, and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. From 1883 onward he a...

Charles Augustus Henry LUTYENS Panel Size 19 x 49" (48 x 125cm) Outside Frame Size: 27 x 57" (68 x 145cm) A typical example of his work with angels but on a wonderful grand scale. ...

Joseph Antonio Hekking was a landscape and marine painter born in 1830 in the Netherlands and died in New York in 1903. He studied in Paris and was a talented draftsman who lived in ...

Régis Francois Gignoux was a distinguished nineteenth-century artist whose work illuminated the sublime aspects of the American landscape. He was born in Lyon, France and trained at the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where his instructor, the history painter Paul-Hipployte Delaroche, encouraged his interest in landscape painting. He traveled to the United States in 1840, and immediately showed interest in American Landscapes. He immediately settled in New York and painted many well known sites of the United States: Niagara Falls, the Catskill Mountains, Mount Washington, and Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. He is most famous for his winter scenes, but shows beautiful landscapes year round. Gignoux quickly established himself within the leading Hudson River School circles of the time. He took sketching trips with Frederic Church and John Frederick Kensett. Today, his paintings are in the collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the New York Historical Society, and the Georgia Museum of Art. This beautiful piece comes from the estate of the artist in New Jersey, and Meyer Fine Art...

The ethereal beauty of gems captured in this oil painting of an exquisite gold sewn bracelet featuring extravagant materials in content and paint - pearls, ruby, citron and aquamarin...

During her lifetime, Davis was best known for her exquisitely-painted floral still lifes, which she exhibited to much acclaim in New York from the mid-1870s to the mid-1880s. As an a...

Cyrenius Hall was an artist who painted Western landscapes in a luminous style. He first went to Portland, Oregon in 1853 and 1854 over the Oregon Trail. From there he executed views...

Sir Alexander Von BENSA Panel Size: 18 x 25" Outside Frame Size: 26 x 34" Oil on panel in very good condition and has benefited from a light clean only. Original frame Austrian Sc...

Edward Niemann Junior A superb example of Edward Niemann's work. The piece is housed in its original detail and is of a quality that would be more akin...

This late 19th-century oil painting by German artist Karl Peter Burnitz (1824-1886) depicts a dense woodland view with pond. At first glance, the dominant characteristic of this spl...

This late 19th-century oil painting by Scottish artist James Alfred Aitken (1846-1897) depicts a harvest scene with hay cart, horse and figures. Gently lit by the final embers of th...

This late 19th-century oil painting by British artist Alfred Walter Williams (1823-1905) depicts a picturesque view at Dartmoor, Devon. Under a vast rolling sky, the diminutive form...

Georges Croegaert 1848-1923 Belgian The Letter Signed "Georges Croegaert Paris" (lower right) Oil on panel A cardinal pauses while composing a letter in this oil on panel by Belg...

This wonderful oil on canvas landscape was done by the famed William Graham. William Graham was an American landscape painter who spent most of his life and career abroad. He was bor...

Signed and dated riverscape oil on canvas by French impressionist painter Louis Aime Japy. The work depicts two fisherman in a small punt in a river at sunset. The clouds in the sky ...

Ganymede was a Trojan prince in Greek mythology, known for his compelling beauty. Because of his alluring good looks, Ganymede was abducted by Zeus to serve as cup-bearer in Olympus....

Signed and dated "Henry Bacon 1881" lower right. Provenance: private collection About this artist: A figure painter in the conservative tradition of the late 19th century French, H...

Artist: Frederick Goodall (English, 1822-1904) Title: "Susannah (Without the Elders)" *Monogram signed and dated by Goodall lower left Year: 1885 Med...

Dog Painting of a Terrier Jules Chardigny (1849-1892) Circa 1870 Oil on wood panel 8 1/8 x 5 5/8 (13 1/4 x 10 3/4 frame) inches This is one of several examples of dogs being painted in this precise style as face-on with a mirthful expression that we've located. The examples all seemingly date to around 1870 and were painted by several artists all who rather contemporaneous of one another; Louis...

William Rickarby Miller Rapelyea House, New York, 1884 Signed and dated lower left Oil on canvas 20 x 30 inches Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, New York Born in Staindrop, County Du...

John Frederick Kensett White House and Trees, circa 1853 Oil and gouache on paper 6 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches Provenance: Estate of Vincent Colyer (1824 - 1888) By descent Paul Magriel Collection Private Collection, Long Island Exhibited: New York, The Finch College Museum of Art; Southampton, New York, The Parrish Art Museum; New Orleans, Louisiana, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art; Norfolk, Virginia, Norfolk Museum of Art; Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum; New London, Connecticut, Lyman Allyn Museum; Manchester, New Hampshire, The Currier Gallery of Art; Providence, Rhode Island, Rhode Island School of Design; Youngstown, Ohio, The Butler Institute of American Art, American Drawings (Benjamin West to the present) from the Paul Magriel Collection, June 1961 - December 1962. Portland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum, April 14 - May 15, 1963. Boston International Fine Art Show at the Cyclorama, Lincoln Glenn, October 19 - 23, 2022. In the 1850s through 1860, John Frederick Kensett, painted a series of at least five landscapes of the "Shrewsbury River" (now the Navesink River) along the New Jersey shore. Art historians have described Kensett’s paintings of the river as having evolved from a trip in the fall of 1853 at the invitation of Kensett's friend, author and lecturer George Curtis. However, letters viewable at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art website make it clear that Kensett had become acquainted with the area over a year earlier, most likely in connection with fellow artist and friend Thomas Prichard Rossiter. Kensett and Rossiter had been friends since at least the 1830s. As aspiring artists, they had traveled to Europe together in the 1840s. In 1851 Rossiter married Anna Ehrick Parmly, then in her early 20s, and Kensett attended the wedding. Anna was one of four daughters of Eleazer and Anna Maria Parmly. Eleazer, one of the major figures in American dentistry history, was a wealthy and accomplished member of New York society. When not in the city, the Parmly family gathered at Bingham Place, a sprawling estate on 275 pastoral acres spanning the peninsula between the Shrewsbury and Navesink Rivers along the New Jersey shore. The Bingham Place estate encompassed much of what is now Rumson, then known as Oceanic, N.J. It was a wide-open landscape of ocean views, orchards, lawns, and cattle-dotted pastures. There the Parmlys opened their doors to family, friends, and the summer breeze. Rossiter, newly-married into the Parmly family, was likely the reason that Kensett paid a social visit to Bingham Place in the summer of 1852. On July 11, 1852, having reluctantly departed, Kensett wrote Rossiter who was still at Bingham Place: New York to me now is that of a deserted place…marking a dismal contrast to the green lawns at Bingham Place. I saw the receding shores of Shrewsbury & the line of dust which marked your homeward course & finally the last glimpse of the Locust trees that shade the pleasant mansion & happy inmates at Bingham with any thing but a joyous spirit. A major figure in the American luminist tradition and one of the most renowned painters of the Civil War era, John Frederick Kensett was born in Cheshire, Connecticut, in 1816. He was the son of Thomas Kensett, a British immigrant engraver, and it was in his father's New Haven firm that Kensett first learned to draw. After mastering the rudiments of the graphic arts, he worked as an engraver in print shops in New Haven, Albany, and New York throughout the 1830's. During this period, he began to paint on his own, encouraged by a friend and fellow artist, John W. Casilear. In 1838, he made his first submission, a landscape, to the annual exhibitions of the National Academy of Design. Desirous of continuing his training, Kensett traveled to Europe in 1840. For the next seven years, often in the company of artists such as Casilear and Asher B...

Large Victorian oil painting. Unsigned . Full of atmosphere and a hint of the Gothic. Quality painting Good condition, some slight craquelure (see image) New frame which really b...

Edward Hill (1843 - 1923) Haying at a North Conway Farm with Mount Washington in the Distance, New Hampshire Oil on canvas 13 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Private Collection, Dallas, Texas Born in Wolverhampton, England in 1843, Edward Hill was the ninth of ten children. Though ultimately less well known than his older brother Thomas Hill (1829-1908), Edward was a productive painter in oil and watercolor for more than sixty years, producing images of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, southern genre scenes, still-life paintings, portraits, American Indian pictures...

Charles Courtney Curran (1861 - 1942) Twilight, Mianus, Connecticut, 1892 Oil on canvas 18 x 32 inches Signed titled, and dated lower left An Impressionist figure, genre, and landsc...

Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (1858 - 1923) Summer Landscape Oil on board 11 x 15 inches Signed lower right Born in Cincinnati, Ohio on November 5, 1858, Joseph DeCamp began his artistic career in his teens and remained active throughout his life. Although he initially painted landscapes, Decamp became a renowned and respected portraitist. He was famous for his images of men of high society and women within domestic interiors. Decamp began his artistic training in 1873 when he enrolled in the McMicken School of Art and Design in Cincinnati. The head of the school, Thomas Satterwhite Noble, was a European-trained painter whose "insistence on rigorous draftsmanship, true to the academic manner in which he had been trained, exerted a lasting influence on DeCamp." DeCamp studied under Noble for five years, but was also a student of Frank Duveneck at the Ohio Mechanics Institute. He adopted Duveneck's bold, realistic style and many of his paintings executed throughout the 1870s and 1880s reflect this influence. Like most American artists of his generation, DeCamp went abroad to study. In 1878, following in the footsteps of Duveneck and other Midwesterners, he traveled to Munich to attend the Royal Bavarian Academy. Soon after his arrival, however, he gravitated away from the academy and towards Duveneck and eventually followed his mentor to Florence and Venice. During these years, DeCamp focused on landscape and portraiture as his primary subjects. These themes would continue to occupy the artist when he returned to America in 1883. When DeCamp arrived back in the United States in 1883, he first settled in Cincinnati, but soon moved to Cleveland to teach at what is now Case Western Reserve University. He then relocated once more to the Boston area, where he would remain for most of his life. DeCamp began teaching at Wellesley Female Academy and, in the fall of 1885, began as an instructor at the School of Drawing and Painting at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He quickly established himself as one of the leading figures in the Boston art community and became a founding member of The Ten American Painters, formulated in 1897. This group included Childe Hassam, John Henry Twachtman, Julian Alden Weir, Frank Benson, Thomas Dewing, Willard Metcalf, Robert Reid, Edward Simmons...

A scroll and a small lantern depicted in this 19th-century painting suggest the romantic notion of a Chinese scholar painting in the evening hours. Re...

The Fox Hunt English School (19th Century) oil on canvas, framed framed: 21 x 29 inches canvas: 16 x 24 inches provenance: private collection, England condition: very good and sound ...

Artist: (after) Sir Henry Raeburn (Scottish, 1756-1823) Title: "Portrait of Margaritta MacDonald in red jacket and white gown (half-length)" *No signature found Circa: 1820 Medium: O...

A very good antique oil on panel costume genre painting by the celebrated Northern Italian artist, Francesco Vinea (1845-1902), the painting dated signed and dated 1873. Vinea studied at The Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and then worked as a designer of illustrated periodicals, he returned to Florence and studied under professor Enrico Pollestrini. Vinea unapologetically produced incredibly high quality humorous and whimsical scenes that were always elegant and depicted figures in period costume situated in lavishly ornamented interiors. Vinea became quite famous and wealthy in his lifetime and his work was particularly sought after in France, England and The United States. The 19th Century American art collector James Jackson...

Frederick Goodall RA (English, 1822 - 1904) A Desert Village with mosque at Midday in Egypt, North Africa • Oil on paper laid on canvas ca. 17 x 38 cm • Original frame ca. 27 x 47 cm • Monogramed lower left A small village dominated by a domed Mosque with single minaret and terracotta coloured dwellings, along with oasis suggestive palm tree line to the horizon under a deep blue clear sky. In the sandy foreground is a lone bedouin (centre), a small group with camel heading into dunes (left) and a group of seated and discusive villagers (right). The oil appears to in fact be painted first on artist paper and then was laid on canvas, suggesting the probability of being painted in the field on artists sketch paper. Imagine the excitement of the Victorians seeing this scene plucked from life in a far away land - remember photography ist just being born. The painting is not dated, but research suggests a date of 1859, so painted during Goodalls first trip to Egypt from 1858/59. Frederick Goodall was born in London in 1822, the second son of steel line...

Sailing on the Loch British School, mid 19th century oil on board, framed framed: 10 x 14 inches board: 8 x 12 inches provenance: private collection, UK condition: very good and soun...

Signed bottom-left.

Late 19th century figurative painting of the battle of Trevilians Station and of the wounding of Colonel Sackett June 11, 1864. Oil on canvas in giltwood frame. Signed or notated ind...

WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS (1833‒1905) Seascape with Crashing Waves, 1889 Oil on canvas 20 x 40 inches Signed and dated 1889, lower right Provenance: William Varieka Fine Art, Newport R...

Huntsman in Woods French 19th Century oil painting on board, framed framed: 7 x 8.5 inches board: 3 x 2.25 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and soun...

Antique French female oil portrait in a gilt frame from the 1800's. This is a beautiful, calming, graceful and atmospheric old oil painting on canvas in a mellow gilt frame. A woma...

This mid-19th-century oil painting depicts a view from Richmond Hill across a wide expanse of the River Thames. Winding its way between a verdant array of leafy, tree-lined pastures...

This charming portrait by Derbyshire artist Joseph Thraves (1805-1851) depicts a scholar proudly standing with his hand on an open book. It’s likely that the family commissioned this...

Her Favorite, 19th Century David Comba Adamson (1559-1926) similar works to $14,000 Exhibited Dundee, Dundee Fine Art Exhibition. Large 19th Century portrait of a young Breton gir...

French School, signed verso Late 19th century/ early 20th century oil painting on canvas, framed inscribed verso framed: 15 x 18 inches canvas: 9.5 x 13 inches provenance: French co...

Venetian painter (c. 1880) - View of the Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge in Venice. 50 x 70 cm without frame, 58 x 78 cm with frame. Oil on canvas, in a wooden frame. Work sign...

Christ Giving The Keys Of Paradise To Saint Peter follower of Giovanni Battista TIEPOLO (1696-1770) Large 18th 19th Century Italian old Master of Christ handing St Peter the keys ...

Up for sale is an interesting 18th/19th-century original oil painting on canvas, depicting a dark landscape with a muscular semi-nude male figure reclining and sleeping among waterme...

Important framed 19th century Hudson River School landscape. Possibly estate stamped. Housed in an impressive period frame. Oil on canvas.

A marvellous depiction of a 19th century Scottish landscape with cattle, sheep and figures standing before castle ruins. The Victorian oil has been left unsigned. On canvas on stretc...

The Avenue of Trees East Anglian School, late 19th/ early 20th century signed 'R Mallet' lower corner oil painting on canvas, framed framed size: 21 x ...

The River Valley by Colestin Brugner (German, 1824-1887) signed lower corner oil on board, framed in antique gilt frame glass over painting framed: 11 x 13 inches painting: 6 x 8.25 ...

HENRY H. PARKER Picture Size: 20 x 30" (50 x 76cm) Outside Frame Size: 27 x 37" (67.5 x 92.5cm) Free Shipping A typical example of Henry Parker's work. Parker is a highly collecte...

This 1842 Romantic Landscape, monogrammed "DB" and oil on paper affixed to wood, is an exquisite embodiment of the Romantic era's profound relationship with nature. Channeling the st...

Portrait of John Holms English School, 19th century oil on canvas, framed history on painting attached including letters and photo. framed: 26.5 x 23.5 inches canvas: 20 x 16 inches...