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Period: 19th Century
Souvenir from Italy: Pifferaro playing the zampogna with the family
Located in Paris, IDF
Joseph BEAUME
(Marseille, 1796 – Paris, 1885)
Souvenir from Italy: pifferaro playing the zampogna with the family
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
73.5 x 60 cm
Provenance: probably...
Category
French School 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
New England Autumnal Bucolic Landscape -- Cows by the Watering Hole 19th Century
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous late 19th Century landscape of cows near watering hole with birch trees and puffy clouds in background by Wesley John Straight (American, 1855 - 1922). Signed lower left corner and on verso. Title "Autumn in New England" on verso lower stretcher bar. Condition: Good; professionally cleaned and restored; minor abrasions repaired and in-painted (see images). Unframed.
Image size: 40"H x 32"W.
Born in Wisconsin on May 20, 1855. Straight appears to have migrated to northern California in the late 1870s. While a resident of San Jose and Grass Valley, he painted scenes of the northern coast and other scenic spots. After moving to southern California in 1912, he lived at the Southern Hotel in San Bernardino until his demise on April 5, 1922. Exhibitions: Delavan Wisconsin County Fair 1874 (painting of the Wisconsin State School for the deaf and countryside), Calif. State Fair, 1880-90, Placer California 1880...
Category
American Impressionist 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
1850’s English Hunting Countryside Oil Huntsman on Horseback and Hounds
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
19th Century English School
oil painting on copper, framed
framed: 18 x 14 inches
board: 13 x 8 inches
provenance: from a collection in Derbyshir...
Category
Victorian 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Looking across Buttermere, Victorian 19th Century Oil Landscape
Located in London, GB
John Atkinson Grimshaw
1836 - 1893
Looking across Buttermere
Oil on canvas, signed & dated '1868' lower right
Image size: 13 ½ x 20 ½ inches (34.2 x 50.5 cm)
Hand made gilt frame
This work is dated 1868 making it one of his early works, painted during the same period as Grimshaw's other Lake District paintings...
Category
Victorian 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The Florence Sisters", 19th Century Oil on Canvas, Spanish Artist José Villegas
Located in Madrid, ES
JOSÉ VILLEGAS Y CORDERO
Spanish 1844 - 1921
"The Florence Sisters"
signed "Villegas" (lower left)
oil on canvas
33-1/2 X 40-1/2 inches (84.5 X 102.5 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private Collector, Seville, Spain
José Villegas Cordero (Seville, August 26, 1844-Madrid, November 9, 1921) was a Spanish painter. He directed the Prado Museum between 1901 and 1918.
Biography
He was the brother of the painter Ricardo Villegas Cordero. He began his apprenticeship very young with José María Romero, with whom he remained for two years until entering the School of Fine Arts in Seville, where he was under the tutelage of Eduardo Cano.
In 1860, when he was only 16 years old, he sold his work Little Philosophy for 2,000 reais at the Seville Exhibition. In 1867 he traveled to Madrid, where he entered Federico Madrazo's studio. There he established friendship with painters Eduardo Rosales and Fortuny.
He went regularly to the Prado where he copied Velázquez, from whom he acquired spontaneity and the use of color for his technique.
Finally, and out of admiration for Fortuny's orientalist painting, he returned to Seville and organized an excursion to Morocco.
At the end of 1868 he decided to travel to Rome accompanied by the painters Rafael Peralta and Luis Jiménez Aranda...
Category
Realist 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1940's Provence Painting French Pathway Landscape - Post Impressionist artist
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provencal Landscape
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
signed
From a batch of similar work where most were dated 1942-1947
watercolour painting on paper, unframed
measurements: 11 x...
Category
Post-Impressionist 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
horse & carriage/gig , country scene, antique oil, by John Vine of Colchester
Located in York, GB
A fine antique oil painting, on canvas, of horses pulling a tandem at speed.
signed and titled lower left, Vine Colchester 1834
This fine painting shows two horses pulling an open carriage /gig with gentleman in extensive landscape/park
The size of the painting is approx 50 x 80 cms, whilst overall the size framed is
100cm x 71 cm
This is a fine painting in very good condition housed in a gilt frame ready to hang
Provenance: The E. W. Towler Collection, formerly of Glympton Park, Woodstock, Oxfordshire see details below
The artist John Vine was born with a disability that did not appear to interfere with his ability to draw and paint, largely self-taught as an animal painter, as his reputation grew he exhibited at the Society of British Artists in Grosvenor Square. Based at Colchester he painted many different subjects including farms, houses, children and animals.
Eric W. Towler was a remarkable man. He was born in 1900 and left school at the age of 12 to work in a Yorkshire pit and through a lifetime of hard work, self-improvement, luck and a refusal to limit his horizons achieved many of his aspirations.
As a Yorkshireman through and through, he believed in ‘spending the brass in his pocket’ and over time he was successful enough to acquire enough ‘brass’ to enable his purchase of Glympton Park and furnish it as a traditional country house with all the trappings – in his case collections of...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Two Early Massachusetts Paintings Boy fishing "Beaver Pool" - "The Conway" 1897
Located in Soquel, CA
Two Early Massachusetts Paintings Boy fishing "Beaver Pool" - "The Conway" 1897
Pair of early Massachusetts paintings on walnut wood pane...
Category
American Impressionist 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
River Scene Winter Landscape Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
H. Brown River Scene Winter Landscape Painting
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 unframed, 29.75 x 34.5 framed
Category
19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19thC portrait of the Duc De Chartres and Louis Philippe with their horses
Located in Woodbury, CT
Well painted late 19th century watercolor of the Duc De Chartres and Louis Philippe with their horses out Fox hunting.
The piece is a fine quality watercolor, well framed in an Eng...
Category
Victorian 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Drover with Cattle in Landscape - British 19thC Victorian art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely British 19th century landscape oil painting is by noted artist Frederick Waters Watts. Painted circa 1840, the composition is a drover with cattle watering in an extensiv...
Category
Victorian 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Circle of Alfred Montague - Framed 19th Century Oil, The Early Morning Cart
By Alfred Montague
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming 19th century oil painting depicting an early morning horse and cart strolling through town. Well presented in a magnificent gilt frame with foliate and ivy ornamentation p...
Category
19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Construction du quai - Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Stanislas Lepine
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed impressionist figures in landscape oil on panel circa 1875 by French painter Stanislas Victor Edouard Lepine. The piece depicts depicts of a view of workers constructing the q...
Category
Impressionist 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Framed 19th Century Oil - Tyrol Valley Landscape with Figures
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful depiction of a Tyrolean town hidden in the Alps, with figures in the foreground engaged in a proposal. Well presented in a stunning antique maple frame. Unsigned. On can...
Category
19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Female Portrait 19th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Signed at right, mid-canvas.
It is a portrait of a mourning woman, a young widow, as can be inferred, not only from the black dress, but rather from the headdress and...
Category
Other Art Style 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Palisades on the Hudson
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: G. Inness
Category
Tonalist 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Poppies in the Forest
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
"Poppies in the Forest," painted by Willard Metcalf, is a vibrant and captivating depiction of nature's splendor. Metcalf, a prominent American artist associated with the Impressioni...
Category
American Impressionist 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two Italian School Portraits of Children, c. 1800s
Located in New York, NY
Untitled Pair of Portraits, c. late 19th century
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 in.
Framed: 22 x 19 1/4 x 1 in.
One painting initialed lower right
Both inscribed verso on stretcher bar
Category
Italian School 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Scottish Watercolour, Figure Walking towards Crofters Cottage
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Frank Murray, Scottish late 19th century
Title: A figure returning a crofters cottage besides a river or lake in the Highlands.
Medium: watercolour painting, frame...
Category
Victorian 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A portrait of two hound dogs standing in a landscape, signed and dated 1889
By Henry Frederick Lucas Lucas
Located in Bath, Somerset
Two Warwickshire hounds, named Hermit and Wildboy, standing in a landscape.
Signed and dated 1889 (lower right) and signed, inscribed and dated on the reverse.
Oil on canvas in a gil...
Category
English School 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lady at the Flower Market
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
LEBAS Léonie (19th-20th)
"Lady at the Flower Market in Paris"
Oil on wood panel signed low right
Old Frame regilded with gold leaves
Dim panel : 16 X...
Category
Academic 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait Of Louise Maria Bird (1845-1862), 19th Century English School
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of Louise Maria Bird (1845-1862), 19th Century
English School
Large 19th century portrait of Louise Maria Bird, oil on canvas. Charming circa 1855 portrait of the girl ar...
Category
19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique 19C. Oil painting on canvas, neoclassical Scene, Homer playing his Lyre
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This captivating 19th-century neoclassical oil painting on canvas depicts the legendary Greek poet Homer serenely playing his lyre beneath a canopy of ancient trees. Seated barefoot ...
Category
Impressionist 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
By Lorenzo Delleani, Ezzelino da Romano contemplates the massacre of Vicenza
Located in Milan, IT
Lorenzo Delleani (Pollone, 1840 - Turin, 1908)
Ezzelino da Romano contemplates the massacre of Vicenza
Oil on canvas, 146x116 cm
Framed, 170 x 140 cm
Signed and dated 1863 lower ...
Category
Other Art Style 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Circle of David Wilkie (1785-1841) - Oil, Conversation By The Fire
By Sir David Wilkie
Located in Corsham, GB
This intimate genre painting depicts a domestic interior scene with two figures engaged in conversation near a fireplace. The ornate gilt frame enhances the artwork's warm tones and ...
Category
19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid-19th-Century Belgian School, Windswept Landscape With Cottage
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This mid-19th-century Belgian oil painting depicts a windswept landscape with a cottage, figures, copse and grazing cattle.
A brisk gale rushes across the scenery, clutching at ever...
Category
19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hudson River School Seascape at Sunset
Located in Soquel, CA
Luminous Hudson River School landscape of sunset over water with red buoy in foreground and sailing ships in background in the style of Alfred Thompson Briche...
Category
Hudson River School 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Portrait Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Stafford (1593-1641), 17th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Stafford (1593-1641), 17th Century
Circle of Anthonius VAN DYCK (1599-1641)
Fine 17th century English School Old Master portrait of Anthonius...
Category
19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine Antique French Impressionist Painting View Of A Park with Stone Urn
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The artist:
Henri Aime Duhem (1860-1941) French *see notes below, signed
Title: The Parkland
Medium:
signed gouache on paper, loosely laid over card, ...
Category
Impressionist 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Portrait of Gentleman with Cigar Large 19th Century British Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Gentleman with a Cigar
English artist, mid 19th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 30 x 25 inches
provenance: private collection, England
condition: overall good a...
Category
Victorian 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Fine 19th Century French Oil Painting - Paddle Steamer Ship Choppy Waters
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: 19th Century French School
Title: A Paddle Steamer in Choppy Waters, period fine quality gilt frame.
Medium: oil painting on canvas, framed
Size: canvas: 21.25” x...
Category
Victorian 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Oil of an English Village landscape, with horses, people, a pub.
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful and very unique English Victorian Village scene, with figures, animals, a Pub, and lots more
.
John Holland Senior was a painter of landscapes and coastal scenes who was bo...
Category
Victorian 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Italian landscape
Located in Genève, GE
Signed
Work on cardboard
Plaster and gilded wood frame
25.5 x 31.5 x 4.5 cm
Category
Italian School 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Sketch of Derwentwater
Located in New York, NY
Estate stamp on verso; on stretcher bar: SEP 9th 1855
Category
Hudson River School 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
The River Bridge, Barbizon School, Circle of Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
Located in Cotignac, FR
A French Barbizon School oil on canvas view of an idylic landscape signed M Legrand de C. Signed bottom left and presented in fine gilt 'Regence' style frame. The painting is on a qu...
Category
Impressionist 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Scottish Figural Landscape, "The Ingathering, Rowan Tree Hill"
Located in Soquel, CA
A sweeping skyline sets a gentle tone for this late 19th century Scottish pastoral scene titled on verso "The Ingathering, Rowan-Tree Hill, Kilmalcol...
Category
Impressionist 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ducks and Pigeons in a Barn Interior
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
John Frederick Herring Snr (Surrey 1795-1863 Kent)
Ducks and Pigeons in a Barn Interior
Signed and dated 1858
Oil on canvas
Painting size 18 1/2 x 28 1/2 in
Framed size 24 x 33 1/2 in
John Frederick Herring Sr. was born on September 12, 1795, in London, England. He was the son of a London-based fringe maker, and the family lived in modest circumstances. Although little is known about his early education, Herring showed a natural affinity for art and horses from a young age. His father moved the family to Doncaster when Herring was still a boy, a town famous for horse racing, which would play a significant role in shaping his future career.
Herring’s love for horses became evident during his youth, where he worked as a coachman and sign painter. He often painted inn signs...
Category
Victorian 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Femme au bord de l'eau
Located in LE HAVRE, FR
Paul ROSSERT (1851-1918)
Femme au bord de l'eau
Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 38 x 55 cm
Signed lower left
Provenance:
- Private collection, Barbizon
- Galerie Mancheron, Paris
Painting...
Category
Barbizon School 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Framed 19th Century Oil - A European Square
Located in Corsham, GB
This fine oil study shows a quiet European street with towering architecture above a covered wagon and chatting locals. Unsigned. Beautifully presented in a period gilt frame with fl...
Category
19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lights of the Aurora
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: W Bradford
Category
Hudson River School 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Turn of the 20th Century French tryptic depicting the Annunciation with 2 saints
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A. Lion (French, c. 1900)
A tryptic depicting the Annunciation flanked by two Saints
Signed “A. LION” (to the left of Mary)
Oil on board
Framed dimensions 23. ½ x 37. ½ in. (60 x 95...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Rose Seller
Located in St. Albans, GB
Alfred Edward Emslie
A beautiful example of Arthur Emslie's work combining his renown ability for portraiture and genre. The soft tones of the background and dress contrasted with the highlights in the face and the large, vibrant bouquet of roses creates a piece perfect for any situation. It is a painting showing class, technique and subtlety.
Provenance: Bonhams
Canvas Size: 22 x 18" (56 x 46cm)
Outside Frame Size: 32 x 28" (81 x 71cm)
1848-1918
Alfred Edward Emslie was an English genre and portrait painter and photographer.
He was the son of the engraver, John Emslie...
Category
Victorian 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Two Happy Sisters - Portrait of two black girls - Royal
Located in Aartselaar, BE
A portrait of two young girls by the Royal Portraitist Chen Yanning.
Both the artist as well as the sitters of this magnificent portrait are from racial...
Category
American Realist 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Grenelle, Paris - 19th Century French Impressionist Antique Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful signed and dated 1893 oil on board by Auguste Grass-Mick, the French impressionist painter who was friends and worked with Edgar Degas and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. He pain...
Category
Impressionist 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Late 1800s Naturalist Country Scene in Gouache on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Rich and detailed country landscape by an unknown artist (19th Century). A grove of large oak trees is carefully rendered on the right side of the composition. In the center, there a...
Category
Naturalistic 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
19th Century Flemish Fair Oil On canvas
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Flemish Fair (After Jan Brueghel The Elder)
This is a very large and impressive version of the original painting Flemish Fair Cr. 1600.
Beautiful 19th Century or earlier oil on ca...
Category
Baroque 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Brittany Genre Oil Painting -- The Day's Catch
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful late 19th Century Brittany scene of fishermen and fishwives on the dock collecting fish and folding nets by French artist S. Louis de Breze (French, 19th Century), circa 18...
Category
Impressionist 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
19th Century landscape oil painting of a Welsh river
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
William Mellor
British, (1851-1931)
On the Llugwy, North Wales
Oil on canvas, signed & further inscribed verso
Image size: 15.5 inches x 23.5 inches
Size including frame: 22.5 inches x 30.5 inches
A pleasing landscape painting of the River Llugwy in North Wales by William Mellor. Sheep can be seen grazing on the bank to the right as the river flows over a rock formation. Beyond is the stunning mountainous backdrop of Capel Curig.
William Mellor was a landscape painter who was born in Barnsley, Yorkshire in 1851, the son of Joseph Mellor, an artist and Mary Mellor. Initially, he was employed as a loom turner in the weaving industry before becoming a professional artist. He would have received tuition from his father who clearly influenced his style and subject matter.
In 1876, he married Mary Elizabeth Watson...
Category
19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cattle in Pastoral Landscape by Stream Victorian English Oil Painting Gilt Frame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cattle by Stream
English artist, late 19th century
inscribed on label verso
oil on board, framed
framed: 14 x 17 inches
board: 9.5 x 13 inches
provenance: private collection, England...
Category
Victorian 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Les Grands Boulevards - Post Impressionist Figures in Cityscape by Louis Hayet
By Louis Hayet
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Landscape oil on panel circa 1890 by French Post Impressionist painter Louis Hayet. The cityscape depicts elegant figures and horses and carts in Les Grands Boulevards in Paris, France.
Signature:
Signed lower right and titled verso
Dimensions:
Framed: 12.25"x15.5"
Provenance:
The collection of Andre Metthey...
Category
Post-Impressionist 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Farmhouse in Newlyn
Located in Boston, MA
Signed lower right: 'C.E.L. Green'. Two labels verso: 'Brockton Art Center/Fuller Memorial/Cat. #19/C.E.L. Green:/Shore and Landscape/Painter of Lynn and Newlyn/Sept.9-Nov.1, 1980'; ...
Category
American Impressionist 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Hans Zatzka, Austrian Oil on Canvas Titled "Spring Love" Maiden with Cherubs
By Hans Zatzka
Located in LA, CA
Hans Zatzka (Austrian, 1859-1945) a superb quality oil on canvas titled "Spring Love" depicting a standing young maiden holding a wicker basket filled with fresh flower as she is bei...
Category
Romantic 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
SIGNED VICTORIAN ENGLISH OIL PAINTING - CHILDREN PLAYING WATERMILL STREAM DUCKS
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: English School, late 19th century, signed lower corner.
Title: The Watermill.
Medium: oil painting, on canvas.
Size: frame: 21 x 27 inches
painting: ...
Category
Victorian 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Colossi of Memnon, Egypt" Rare Orientalist Landscape Painting by F.A. Bridgman
Located in New York, NY
"Colossi of Memnon, Egypt" Rare Orientalist Landscape Painting by Frederick Arthur Bridgman (American, 1847-1928)
A wonderful oil on canvas painting by American orientalist painter Frederick Arthur Bridgman depicting The Colossi of Memnon - two large stone statues...
Category
19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Oil Snow Landscape titled "Gathering Wood for Winter, New Haven, CT"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
George Henry Durrie's painting "Gathering Wood for Winter, New Haven, CT" captures the essence of 19th-century rural America with its picturesque depiction of a serene winter landsca...
Category
Hudson River School 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Coastal Scene at Sunset with Ships
Located in New York, NY
Signed indistinctly lower right
Category
Hudson River School 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
William Baptiste Baird Mother Feeding Her Chicks
Located in San Francisco, CA
William Baptiste Baird: 1847-1917. Well listed American painter with auction records over $16,000 for similar size and subject. He was born in Chicago and lived in Paris for most of his adult life. He often exhibited at the Paris Salon as well as National Academy of Design and PAFA. This subject is what you want in a Baird. Chickens in a French farm yard. Oil on panel measuring 8 1/2 inches high by 6 1/4 wide. The antique distressed frame...
Category
American Realist 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Italian Beauty 19th century Realism Antique Portrait Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Jacksonville, FL
The painting is signed on the top left side.
Description:
Tito Conti (1842-1924) was an esteemed Italian painter renowned for his exceptional skill in portr...
Category
Realist 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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