19th Century Paintings

Monogramed and dated lower right: JF.K. / ‘64.

Signed lower right in arrowhead: R.A. Blakelock

Signed and dated right of center: J.F. Cropsey / 1852

Signed and dated lower left: 1848

MONTBARD (Active XIX-XXth c.) "The Lion" Oil on canvas Painting: 78 x 62 cm Framed: 93 x 78 cm

As one of the first, and most important, American Impressionists, Theodore Robinson helped to introduce the French style to American artists and audiences.

Oil Study of Two Horses Oil on canvas, c. 1880 Unsigned Estate stamp verso of canvas and on stretcher (see photo) Condition: Excellent New gilt frame aptterned after the period frame Painting size: 4 1/8 x 8 3/8 inches Frame size: 6 3/4 x 11 inches Provenance: Estate of the Artist Jill Newhouse Gallery, New York Eric G. Carlson Fine Prints, New York "Frederick (sic) Arthur Bridgman relocated from Alabama to New York with his family while still a youth. He was eventually employed as an engraver with the American Bank Note Company. He began studying art in his spare time inthe Art Schools of Brooklyn and the National Academy of Design in New York. He traveled to Paris in 1866 and became a favorite student of Gérôme which lead to Bridgman's exhibition in the Paris Salon in 1868. He made France his permanent home in 1870, and spent his summers on sketching tours of Brittany. He exhibited with the National Academy of Design in 1871. He lived in Egypt in 1873; scenes from Egyptian antiquity were prominent in his work. Bridgman's talents extended to writing and music; he was a noted composer and musician. The artist died in Rouen, France, in 1928." Courtesy SAAM (Smithsonian American Art Museum) "Frederick Arthur Bridgman was a well-known landscape and historical painter. He is most admired for his Orientalist subjects, including views of North Africa, in particular Egypt and Algeria, and his scenes from Ancient Egyptian history. Although born in Alabama, Bridgman came from a Yankee family. After the death of his doctor father and amid the mounting tension before the Civil War, the Bridgmans returned to their native New England, settling in New York. Young Frederick showed artistic gifts and was apprenticed as an engraver to the American Banknote Company. He attended evening classes at the Brooklyn Art Association at the same time. He also studied at the National Academy of Design, where he met Harry Humphrey Moore and Thomas Hovendon. In these early years, Bridgman exhibited at the Brooklyn Art Association. Bridgman travelled to France, where he visited Pont Aven, the artists’ colony in Brittany frequented by Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard as well as a circle of American painters around the Philadelphian Robert Wylie (1839-1877). Bridgman also studied in Paris with Jean Léon Gérôme at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Bridgman made an important reputation for himself in France at the annual Paris Salons; in Britain, where he exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1871 and 1904, and in Germany, where he showed at the Grosse Berliner Kunst Ausstellung. His work was included in the American displays at the 1889 Universal Exposition held in Paris. In 1872 Bridgman travelled to Spain and North Africa in the company of a British artist known only as ‘S’. In the winter of 1873-4 he made a second trip, visiting Egypt in the company of fellow American artist Charles Sprague Pearce. Bridgman married a young Bostonian, Florence Mott Baker; the deterioration of his wife’s health from the terrible inherited neurological disorder Huntington’s Chorea led him to return to Algiers in 1885 for a respite for them both in a warm climate. He wrote a fascinating travel narrative describing his journeys in North Africa, Winters in Algiers, published in 1888 and illustrated with woodcuts from his works. Bridgman’s great success culminated at the Paris Salons of 1877, 1878 and 1879 with a trio of paintings portraying life in the ancient Near East...

Oil on canvas Canvas size: 10 x 12.25 inches Framed size: 14 x 16.25 inches Signed lower left Provenance: Private collection London, Ex Macconnal Mason

Signed and dated lower right: WE NORTON. \ 72

dated ‘Juli 94’ (lower left)

Signed and dated lower right: EVERETT SHINN / 99

Signed lower left in arrowhead: R.A. Blakelock (NBI-1611-II)

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right

Signed and dated lower right: WM. T. Richards - 1873.

Woman in a Field Oil on canvas, 1894 Signed and dated 1894, lower right corner Unframed A major exhibition work by this American Expatriate painter. From the linear descendants of th...

Oil on canvas

Estate stamp on verso; on stretcher bar: SEP 9th 1855

Signed and dated lower left: W.R. Miller. 1877.

Signed and dated, lower left: Louise Hersent/ 1823 Provenance: Private Collection, Chicago, by 1996 Private Collection, Florida This charming portrait of a young boy is the work of Louise-Marie-Jeanne Hersent, a little-known woman artist of the French Restoration often identified by her maiden name, Mauduit. While Hersent—as we will call her here following the signature on the painting—has been understudied, the known details of her life and career reveal that she held a privileged position in artistic life in the early nineteenth century in Paris. She exhibited at the Salon from 1810 until 1824, and in 1821 she married the painter Louis Hersent, a successful pupil of Jacques-Louis David who was patronized by Louis XVIII and Charles X. It is likely through her husband’s royal patronage that Hersent’s Louis XIV Visits Peter the Great was purchased for the Royal Collection in Versailles. In 1806, while still Louise Mauduit, she painted a portrait of Napoleon’s youngest sister, Pauline Bonaparte...

Oil on canvas Canvas size: 32 x 45 inches Framed size: 35.5 x 50 inches Signed lower right

Oil on canvas

Untitled (also known as "1811 THE BACKWOODSMAN'S CHRISTMAS") Oil on canvas, c. 1875-1925 Unsigned Provenance: Found in Ohio A charming American naive no...

Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse 1859-1938 French La Princesse Bleue Oil on canvas Signed lower left Canvas: 27 1/8" high x 32 1/8" wide Frame : 37 3/8" high x 41 3/4" wide Exposed...

Signed upper left: Witkowski

Oil on canvas Canvas size: 18.75 x 25 inches Framed size: 29.5 x 35.5 inches Signed and dated 1890 lower left

Signed lower left: Blakelock

The Sand Barge by Jozef Israëls Oil on wood panel. 18 x 40 cm (7 1/16 x 15 3/4 in). Signed Artist biography Dutch-Jewish artist Jozef Israëls was born ...

Ralph Albert Blakelock was a romanticist American painter known primarily for his landscape paintings related to the Tonalism movement.

Woman Reading by JOZEF ISRAËLS (1824-1911) Oil on Panel 21 x 12.5 cm (8 1/4 x 4 15/16 inches) Signed lower right Executed circa 1870 Artist biography D...

A pair of Portraits of a Rabbi by José Schneider (1848-1893) Oil on canvas 2 parts, 21.2 x 18.4 cm (8 ³/₈ x 7 ¹/₄ inches) each Signed lower left on second panel, José Schneider

Signed illegibly lower right

Oil and India ink on canvas, 34 1/4 x 54 1/4 in. Signed (at lower right): Joseph Lee Painted about 1876 EX COLL.: Captain Oscar Conrad Kustel (1834–1921), ...

Estate stamp on verso

Oil on canvas Canvas size: 12 x 18 inches Framed size: 15.75 x 21.75 inches Signed lower right

Signed lower left: Blakelock

Dated lower right: Sept. 67

Label on stretcher bar: No. 175. / AMERICAN ART-UNION. /Road-Side View / Painted by / Seth Eastman / Distributed December 20, 1850.

In 1852, twenty-nine year old William Bradford was a failing shopkeeper in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. With a wife and child at home, Bradford, by his own admission, “spent too much time in painting to succeed” in business. Rescued from insolvency by his well-to-do in-laws, this is not the beginning of a narrative that generally leads to a happy ending. Not so with Bradford, who ultimately found international fame and fortune as a painter of arctic seascapes and dramatic marine paintings. William Bradford, the artist, was a lineal descendant of the 17th-century Separatist leader William Bradford, a founder of the Plymouth Plantation, signer of the Mayflower Compact and Governor of the Plymouth Colony. Our Bradford born to a New Bedford ship outfitter in Fairhaven, Massachusetts By the nineteenth century, this line of Bradfords were Quakers, living on the tract purchased nearly two centuries earlier by their pilgrim ancestor. Fairhaven, across the mouth of the Acushnet River from the whaling center of New Bedford was described by a New York journalist in 1857 as “the Brooklyn of New Bedford” (Home Journal, January 3, 1857). Young Bradford displayed an early predilection for the arts, but his Quaker parents were disinclined to support this particular pursuit. After working in his father’s business and then for a dry goods merchant in New Bedford, by 1849 Bradford had set up in New Bedford as a “merchant tailor” offering outfits for “those going to California,” “seamen’s clothing,” custom-tailored “piece goods...

Waiting by Jozef Israëls (1824-1911) Oil on canvas 95.3 x 133.9 cm (37 ½ x 52 ¾ inches) Signed lower left, Jozef Israels A monumental painting by one of...

Henry Prellwitz was a leading artist of the Peconic artists’ colony on Long Island’s North Fork; he is known for his figurative paintings and landscapes.

American School. The Pond: Sunlight and Clearing Clouds. Late nineteenth century. 13 7/8 x 11 1/8 x 1 1/4. Unsigned. Frost & Adams stamp to the verso. The painting has been cleaned and relined; minor discolorations; craquelure. Housed in a linen liner with a gold lip and an elegant period-style 17 1/8 x 14 ½ x 2 1/8-inches. Frost & Adams (est.1869) was an artists' supply firm in Boston, Massachusetts, located in Cornhill, on the current site of Boston City...

Signed and dated lower left: W. Whittredge 1861

Signed and dated lower right: J. F. Cropsey / 1879

Signed and dated lower right in arrowhead: R. A. Blakelock / 1876

Oil on canvas 46 x 55 cm (18 ⅛ x 21 ⅝ inches) Signed lower left, Ridgway Knight Artist biography American artist Daniel Ridgway Knight was born in Pennsylvania and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. From 1872 he lived and worked at Poissy on the River Seine, just to the west of Paris. Best known for his landscapes and depictions of peasant women in the fields, Knight earned distinction at the Paris Salon of 1882. He went to be was awarded the Silver Medal and Cross of the Legion d’Honneur at the Exposition Universelle in 1889, the Gold Medal of Honour from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1893 and in that same year was created a Knight of the Royal Order...

Oil on board (Pair) Board size: 9.25 x 14.25 inches each Framed size: 14.75 x 19.75 inches each Both signed

Original gouache by an unknown Neapolitan artist, circa 1840. Upper right panel after a fresco in Casa dei Dioscuri, Pompeii.

Signed lower right: Louis Moeller.

Dory Fishermen Frederick Schiller Cozzens created this watercolor entitled “Dory Fishermen” in 1888. This piece is signed in brush, lower left “Fred S. Cozzen...

Monogrammed and dated lower right: JW. 71; on verso: Indian Summer / By Jw. Williamson / N. Y. 1871 –

William Mason Brown painted landscapes before becoming known as a painter of meticulously detailed still lifes.

Oil on canvas Canvas size: 20.25 x 27.25 inches Signed lower left

Oil on mahogany panel Panel size: 47 x 36 inches Signed lower right

Oil on panel Panel size: 21.5 x 17.25 inches Signed??

Georges HYON (1840 - 1909) Battle of Auerstaedt, October 14th 1806 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right Dimensions : 59 x 78 3/4 inches (Dimensions : 150 x 200 cm) Framed : 66 7/8 x 86 5/8 inches (Framed : 170 x 220 cm) Provenance : -Private collection Exhibition: -French Salon of 1891; exhibited under number 849 Formed in multiple squares, the French infantry resisted the assaults of the Prussian cavalry which broke on these impassable walls bristling with thousands of rifle bayonets...

Signed and inscribed lower right: MFH de Haas NA

Alexandre DE ANDREIS (1830-1910) "Le Mousquetaire / The Musketeer" Oil on panel Signed lower right Painting: 45 x 29 cm (17 3/4 x 11 3/8 in.) Framed: ...

Oil on panel Panel size: 15.25 x 11.25 inches A signed lower right, B signed lower left