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Style: Old Masters
Period: 19th Century
Early 19th century French Oval Portrait of a pretty Young Blonde French Girl
Located in Woodbury, CT
A wonderful Oval oil on canvas portrait of a little girl. Very much in the style of Jean-Baptiste Greuze.
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
View of St. John’s Cathedral, Antigua
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
Robert Hollberton, Antigua, ca. 1841
Private Collection, New York
The present painting depicts Old St. John’s Cathedral on the island of Antigua. The church was erected in the 1720s on the designs of the architect Robert Cullen. It measured 130 feet by 50 feet with north and south porches 23 x 20 ½ feet. The tower, 50 feet high with its cupola, was added in 1789. The church was elevated to the status of a cathedral, but disaster struck in the form of an earthquake that destroyed the building on 8 February 1843. A memorandum of that date relates the event:
“On Wednesday, 8th February, 1843, this island was visited by a most terrific and destructive earthquake. At twenty minutes before eleven o’clock in the forenoon, while the bell was ringing for prayers, and the venerable Robert Holberton was in the vestry-room, awaiting the arrival of persons to have their marriage solemnized, before the commencement of the morning service, the whole edifice, from one end to the other, was suddenly and violently agitated. Every one within the church, after the first shock, was compelled to escape for his life. The tower was rent from the top to the bottom; the north dial of the clock precipitated to the ground with a dreadful crash; the east parapet wall of the tower thrown upon the roof of the church; almost the whole of the north-west wall by the north gallery fell out in a mass; the north-east wall was protruded beyond the perpendicular; the altar-piece, the public monument erected to the memory of lord Lavington, and the private monuments, hearing the names of Kelsick, Warner, Otley, and Atkinson, fell down piecemeal inside; a large portion of the top of the east wall fell, and the whole of the south-east wall was precipitated into the churchyard, carrying along with it two of the cast-iron windows, while the other six remained projecting from the walls in which they had been originally inserted; a large pile of heavy cut stones and masses of brick fell down at the south and at the north doors; seven of the large frontpipes of the organ were thrown out by the violence of the shock, and many of the metal and wooden pipes within displaced; the massive basin of the font was tossed from the pedestal on which it rested, and pitched upon the pavement beneath uninjured. Thus, within the space of three minutes, this church was reduced to a pile of crumbling ruins; the walls that were left standing being rent in every part, the main roof only remaining sound, being supported by the hard wood pillars.”
The entrance from the southern side into the cathedral, which was erected in 1789, included two imposing statues, one of Saint John the Divine and the other of Saint John the Baptist in flowing robes. It is said that these statues were confiscated by the British Navy from the French ship HMS Temple in Martinique waters in 1756 during the Seven Years’ War and moved to the church. The statues are still in situ and can be seen today, much as they appeared in Bisbee’s painting, but with the new cathedral in the background (Fig. 1).
Little is known of the career of Ezra Bisbee. He was born in Sag Harbor, New York in 1808 and appears to have had a career as a political cartoonist and a printmaker. His handsome Portrait of President Andrew Jackson is dated 1833, and several political lithographs...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Venus and Adonis
By Baron Pierre Narcisse Guerin (workshop)
Located in Paris, FR
Baron Pierre Narcisse GUERIN (Circle of)
1774-1833 French
Venus et Adonis (Venus and Adonis)
Oil on canvas
Canvas: 53" high x 39 1/2" wide
Frame: ...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
C19th Portrait Princesse de Joinville of Brazil - Spectacular fit for a palace
By Henri d'Ainecy Montpezat
Located in London, GB
Portrait of Princess de Joinville riding a Bay Horse
Henri d’Aincy, Le Comte Monpezat (French 1817-1859)
Painted circa 1837-9
oil on canvas
113 x 92 inches (including frame)
92 x 70 inches (unframed)
Provenance – from a private royal collection
This magnificent portrait depicts Princess de Joinville, the daughter of Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil and the King of Portugal. Through her illustrious family she was directly related Alexander III and Nicholas II of Russia and the Russian royal family, as well as to many of the great ruling families of Europe.
The work clearly confirms Monpezat as one of the most accomplished equestrian portrait painters in France in the early nineteenth century. In terms of scale, quality and dramatic power, it must surely be considered amongst his finest works. The stance of the powerful thoroughbred - in half rear - emphasises the calm nature and courage of the Princess.
Francisca of Brazil (1824-98) married a son of Louis Philippe I, the King of the French, and had three children. Born at the Imperial Palace of Saint Christopher, her youngest brother was the future Pedro II...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Town Scene, " Oil on Canvas European Cityscape by Petrus Gerardus Vertin
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Town Scene" is an original oil on canvas by Petrus Gerardus Vertin. The city scene shows an idyllic view of a bustling European city of the pas...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Calèches au Bois de Boulogne
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Emile Perboyre
1826-1914 French
Calèche au Bois de Boulogne, Circa 1880
Oil on panel
Signed lower right
Panel: 12 5/8" high x 18 1/8" wide
Fame: 19...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 18th Century Oil After Francis Wheatley, The Taming of The Shrew
Located in London, GB
After Francis Wheatley, circa 1800
The Taming of the Shrew
Oil on canvas; held in a period style frame. Dimensions refer to size of frame
Artists and patrons in the eighteenth ...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Classical Ruins
Located in Miami, FL
William Louis Sonntag Sr. was an American Landscape painter and a member of the Hudson River School movement. He was an Academician of the National Academy of Design. His work is in ...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Le Marechal Ney passant ses Troupes en Revue
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Emile Perboyre
1826-1914 French
Le Marechal Ney passant ses Troupes en Revue (The Marshall Ney reviewing his Troops)
Oil on panel
Signed lower righ...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Painting 19th Century Romantic Courtiers Genre Scene
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Courtiers Party in the Park in 18th Century
In the Taste of Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743)
Oil on canvas
Frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 73 X 59 cm
Dim frame : 100 X 87 cm
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Le Voyage - Halte au bord de l'Oued
By Georges Washington
Located in Paris, FR
Georges Washington
1827-1910 American
Le Voyage - Halte au bord de l'Oued
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
Canvas: 16 7/8" high x 23 5/8" wide
Frame: 29...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A gentleman’s vices
Located in London, GB
English School, circa 1827
A gentleman’s vices
the newspaper dated ‘Sunday December 23 1827’ (upper left)
oil on canvas
20 ¾ x 24 ½ in. (52.7 x 62.3 cm.)
frame 25 ⅝ x 29 ¼ in. (65.1...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Men Fraternizing with Ladies, Pre-20th Cen Oil Painting by Wilfrid Beauquesne
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Wilfrid Constant Beauquesne, French (1840 - 1913)
Title: Men Fraternizing with the Ladies
Year: c. 1890
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l.
Size: 21.5 x 26 in. (54.61 x 66.04 ...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Juliet and her Nurse with the Page Peter from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Henry Perronet Briggs, Attributed to, English (1793 - 1844)
Title: Juliet and Her Nurse with the Page Peter from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Year: circa 1820
Medium: Oil o...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Revue à Longchamp
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Emile Perboyre
1826-1914 French
Revue à Longchamp,
Oil on panel
Signed lower right
Panel: 27 1/2" high x 45 1/4" wide
Fame: 40 1/8" high x 57 1/2" wide
Paul-Emile Léon PERBOYRE: painter of battles born in Horbourg near Colmar in 1826, died in 1907. Painter of history, battles.
He was a pupil of Leon Bonnat. He exhibited in Paris at the Salon of French Artists, in which one he became a member in 1909. He obtained an honorable mention in 1908.
Perboyre was well known for his many paintings of...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Painting Interior and Genre Scene
By Jean Alexandre Rémy Couder
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
COUDER Alexandre Jean Rémy (1808-1879)
Reading on the sofa
Oil on canvas signed low left
Old original frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 47 X 39 cm
Di...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Painting 19th century old master rural daily life
By Henri-Joseph Castaing
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
CASTAING Henri Joseph (1860-1918)
Young girl at the source
Oil on canvas signed low left
Frame gilded with gold leaves
Dim canvas : 100 X 66 cm
Dim frame : 121 X 86 cm
CASTAING Henr...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Ray of Sunlight
Located in Atlanta, GA
Ruisdael is regarded as the principal figure among Dutch landscape painters of the second half of the 17th century. His naturalistic compositions and style representing massive forms...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
18th or 19th Century Follower of Rubens. Judith and the Head of Holofernes. Oil
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Late 18th or Early 19th Century Continental follower of Peter Paul Rubens.
Flemish ( b.1577 - d.1640 ).
Judith and the Head of Holofernes.
Oil on Canvas.
Image size 31.1 inches x 23...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large 19th century painting - Horses and farm animals in the countryside 1860
Located in Antwerp, BE
19th century British genre painting "A happy animal family in the countryside", 1860
John Frederick Herring II, born in 1815, was an English painter who followed in the footsteps of...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Preparation of the meal and punished child
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Plaster frame and gilded molded wood
44.3 x 51 x 5 cm
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early 19th Century Norwich School oil painting of cottage by a pond
Located in Harkstead, GB
A very atmospheric view of a cottage or outhouse by a pond. The artist has given wonderful texture to the paint to simulate the appearance of the foliage of the trees and vegetation to the foreground of the painting. The scene imbued with a dusky northern light.
John Berney Crome...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vedustist painter (Veneto school) - 19th century landscape painting - Padova
Located in Varmo, IT
Venetian painter (19th century) - Padua, Caffè Pedrocchi.
37.5 x 48.5 cm without frame, 50.5 x 60 cm with frame.
Oil on canvas, in a carved wooden frame.
Condition report: Good st...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Classicist Italian painter - 19th century figure painting - Roman Allegory
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (18th-19th century) - Roman allegory.
74 x 60 cm without frame, 81 x 67 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in wooden frame.
Condition report: Lined can...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Early 19th century French figure painting - Napoleon portrait - Oil on canvas
Located in Varmo, IT
French painter (c. 1815) - Portrait of a gentleman, probably Napoleon in exile on the island of S. Elena.
109 x 89 cm without frame, 139.5 x 119.5 cm with frame.
Oil on canvas, in ...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century English Antique, Two Country farmers drinking beer in a landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
Attributed to George Morland.
19th Century English Antique, Two Country farmers drinking beer in a landscape.
Wonderful early 19th-century original oil on canvas.
A classic 'Morland' composition as the painter was a big fan of English Pub scenes...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Set of Five late 19th century Italian or French portraits of Putti or Angels
Located in Woodbury, CT
Set of Five late 19th century Italian or French portraits of Putti or Angels
A unique set of five oils on board depicting either Cherubs or Putti, ...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Early 19th century Antique English landscape with cows in a cowshed
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderfully painted early 19th-century English rural landscape with cattle in a cowshed.
Very similar to the work of Edward Williams who was a very well-known English landscape pai...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
After "Pylades and Orestes Brought as Victims Before Iphigenia" History Painting
By (After) Benjamin West
Located in Houston, TX
History Painting of the Greek story. The work was first painted in 1766 by Benjamin West. The original masterpiece is located in the Tate.
According...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil