Early 1900s Paintings

A Large and impressive antique oil on canvas Pre-Raphaelite painting by the German artist, Hermann Frobenius (1871-1954), signed and dated 1900. Frobenius had classical training and studied both in Rome and Florence, he later was in the circle of Arnold Bocklin and Hans von Marees, he settle in Munich but also in Dresden briefly and latterly in Berlin. He, like many other European painters was fascinated with North Africa and painted many oriental scenes of Algiers, Tunis and Cairo, he was represented at many exhibitions, including the "Great German Art Exhibition" in Munich 1941. This painting (an early example of the artist's work) is very finely painted in the Pre Raphaelite style, depicting a medieval costumed...

*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 5% IMPORT DUTY ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Les Bateaux Lavoir, Paris by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961) Oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm (15 x 18 ¹/₈ in...

EDOUARD VUILLARD (CUISEAUX, 1868 – LA BAULE, 1940) Femme sur un sofa (L’Attente) Vers 1903 Huile sur toile monté sur panneau 75,5 x 41 cm. Signé en bas à gauche « E. Vuillard » Provenance Theodore Duret, Paris ; galeire Bernheim Jeune, Paris ; Svensk-Fransk Konstgalleriet, Stockholm ; Carl Matthiessen, Stockholm ; Nore Lungren, Stockholm ; collection Bonnier, Genève ; Wildenstein & co., New-York ; Bibliographie I. De HOOR, Nägra franska malningar i Carl Matthiessens samling, Konstrevy, 1928, p. 8 ; I. De HOOR, La collection Matthiessen à Stockholm, L’Amour de l’art, vol. 11, 1930, p. 412, illustré ; Architectural Digest, May-June 1976, p. 64, illustré en couleurs ; Antoine SALOMON & Guy COGEVAL, Vuillard : Le Regard innombrable, catalogue critique de peintures et pastels, vol. II, Milan, 2003, n° VII-201, p. 644, illustré en couleurs. Exposition Stockholm, Svensk-Fransk Konstgalleriet, Uställning ung svensk Konst, 1938 ; Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Frankrike genom konstnärsögon, 1941 ; Stockholm, Svensk-Fransk Konstgalleriet, Fransk Konst : ur privata samlingar i Stockholm, 1951, n°74 ; Stockholm, Liljevachs Konsthall, Cezanne till Picasso, fransk konst i svensk ägo, 1954, n°395, illustré ; Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Fem sekler fransk konst, 1958, n°173...

Signed "Franklin Booth" Lower Left "Where the pure child-face had first drifted across his bewildered vision." Illustration for "The Thief," by Constance Smedley, published in Every...

Antique American impressionist ashcan school pastel painting. Pastel and gouache on paper. Signed. Framed.

Antique American impressionist painting of two nude bathers in a landscape. Oil on canvas, circa 1900. Signed lower right. ...

A very charming spring time scene by Judith Hill Signed and dated Watercolour on paper 28.25 x 26 inches unframed 30.25 x 28 inches framed

Colonel Bates Leads the 30th Colored Infantry at the Battle of the Crater Watercolor on Paper Circa 1903 15 ½ x 21 ½ Inches 25 ½ x 33 ½ Inches Framed LR: Graves This rare portrait of African American troops serving in battle during the Civil War depicts the 30th United States Colored Infantry at the Battle of the Crater, at Petersburg, Virginia. The regiment was composed of African American enlisted men commanded by white officers and was authorized by the Bureau of Colored Troops which was created by the United States War Department on May 22, 1863. The Battle of the Crater, July 30th, 1864, was part of the Siege of Petersburg, fought between the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Robert E. Lee and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade (under the direct supervision of the general-in-chief, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant). At the top of the painting, Colonel Delevan Bates raises his saber to lead the charge of the 30th United States Colored Infantry. Bates was promoted to this command just prior to this battle, having served with distinction in the 121st New York Infantry at the Battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. Though the Battle of the Crater would eventually be won by the Confederacy, it was here that Bates and 23 other troops would be award the United States highest award for bravery during combat, the Medal of Honor. After weeks of preparation, on July 30, Union forces exploded a mine in Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's IX Corps sector, blowing a gap in the Confederate defenses of Petersburg, Virginia. From this propitious beginning, everything deteriorated rapidly for the Union attackers. Unit after unit charged into and around the crater, where soldiers milled in confusion. Grant considered the assault "the saddest affair I have witnessed in this war." The Confederates quickly recovered and launched several counterattacks led by Brig. Gen. William Mahone. The breach was sealed off, and Union forces were repulsed with severe casualties. Brig. Gen. Edward Ferrero's division of black soldiers...

Reinhold Grohmann (1877-1915) was a German painter who studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, a renowned art school that attracted students from all over the world. Grohmann's wo...

Well-painted English late 19th century RIver landscape, with river, Church Cottage at Sunrise Daniel Sherrin 1868-1940 signed L. Richards This is a framed original oil painting on c...

Wonderful early 20th-century oil on canvas depicting a view of the Scottish highlands and the River Usk. Sidney Yates Johnson was an active painter during the late Victorian period ...

Signed Lower Right by Artist

Work on canvas Monogram work C.A.

Delicate and detailed floral still life by Alfred Broge (Danish, 1870-1955). Three white anemones and one pink poppy, all with stems and leaves, sit against a medium grey background...

Reaching under full sail, including a jib-headed "kicker" topsail on the Jigger mast, the white-hulled barkentine THOMAS P. EMIGH is depicted approaching what appears to be the headl...

Signed Lower Right by Artist

Wonderful early 20th-century oil on canvas depicting a view of the Scottish highlands known as the Trossachs. Sidney Yates Johnson was an active painter during the late Victorian pe...

Arthur Trevor HADDON 1864 - 1941 An excellent example of Haddon's work in its original frame. His finest pieces were painted during the time when he was living in Spain. Often they i...

Signed Verso and on Wagon Right "Thomas R. Colletta"

Jean-Baptiste Robie (1821 Brussels - 1910 ibid.). Still life with meadow flowers. Oil on wood, 24.5 x 18.5 cm (inside measurement), 37 x 31 cm (frame), signed and dated (difficult to...

A fine small oil study of a Buddha in Japan by American artist Lilla Cabot Perry (1848-1933). Perry was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and went on to...

A wonderful oil on canvas circa 1908 by French post impressionist painter Henri Liénard de Saint-Délis depicting a boat docked at the harbour in the harb...

Etienne-Prosper BERNE-BELLECOUR Boulogne-sur-mer, 1838 - Paris, 1910 Oil on canvas 46 x 33 cm (55 x 43 cm with the frame) Signed lower right "To his friend doctor Daymard / E. Berne-Bellecour / 1903" Painting exhibited at Salon des Artistes Français of 1904 (number 136. “Portrait of Mr. Major Daymard”) Very good condition ( only a few and small repaints) As an academic painter, Berne-Bellecour worked for illustrated newspapers after failing at the Prix de Rome in 1859. In 1870, he enlisted in the Frankish Corps of Tirailleurs de la Seine and is decorated with the Military Medal. This will decide his career. Companion of Édouard Detaille and Alphonse de Neuville, he painted battle pictures and portraits of soldiers that made him very well known as a specialist military painter. "The Tirailleurs of the Seine in the battle field...

GEORGE A. BOYLE Oil on Panel Panel Size: 10 x 14" (25 x 35cm) Outside Frame Size: 17 x 21" (42.5 x 52.5cm) EXHIBITION PERIOD 1884 – 1917 Boyle was born in Greenwich, London, and m...

KEES VAN DONGEN (ROTTERDAM, 1877 – MONACO, 1968) Nature morte avec poupée 1908 Période fauve Huile sur toile 61 x 46 cm. Signée en bas à droite « Van Dongen » et inscrit « Margoden » au dos. Provenance Collection Ezra et Cécile Zilkha. Cette œuvre sera incluse dans le Catalogue raisonné digital Van Dongen en cours de réalisation par...

Alfred Fontville De BREANSKI A typical example of De Breanski's highland landscapes with a wonderful sunlight glow on the mountain tops and lovely attention to detail with beautiful ...

Ernst Link (Swiss, ∗ 14th of October, 1874 in Windisch, † 29th of June, 1935 in Bern) Stöckli with Clothesline • Oil painting on canvas approx. 25.5 x 26.5 cm • Pine frame approx. 34.5 x 35.5 cm (obvious signs of age) • Signed lower right A most pleasant depiction of a typical ‘Stöckli’ in bright sunshine with the a few shirts on the washing line, somewhere in the Canton of Berne in Switzerland. Such small cottages would sit next to the large farmhouses and upon retirement the old couple would move into it, to make room for the next generation to take up residence in the main building and run the farm. The Painting is in pleasingly good and clean condition, with no damage or restoration Ernst Linck was an important representative of the "Berner Schule" (Bernese school) led by the famous Ferdinand Hodler, which also included Traugott Senn, Emil Cardinaux, Eduard Boss...

This early 20th-century oil painting by Austrian artist Karl Feiertag (1874-1944) depicts two young women making lace in Burano, Venice. Sat within a qu...

Bulldog In A Landscape J White (British 19th/20th Century) oil on canvas, framed signed and dated 1908 framed: 32 x 25 inches canvas: 27 x 20 inches provenance: private collection, S...

Work on canvas Plaster and gilded wood frame 114 x 95.4 x 10 cm

Tuareg Rider in the Desert, 1908 Paul Jouve (1878-1973) Oil on panel, signed lower right. 27 ½ × 24 inches (21 ¾ × 17 1/2 frame) inches Paul Jouve’s work has been celebrated and col...

George Sotter Bucks County Landscape, 1908 Signed Lower Right: Sotter 08; signed on the reverse: G. W. Sotter Oil on artist board 12 x 9 inches Born in Pittsburgh in 1879 to Nicholas and Katherine Sotter, George William Sotter painted the rivers and mills of that city in his early youth. He apprenticed with several stained-glass studios there prior to becoming a partner in the studio of Horace Rudy in Pittsburgh around 1901. He took leave from the studio and came to Bucks County in 1902, to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts as well as with Edward W. Redfield, the premier painter of the New Hope School. In 1903, he participated in the annual exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He continued his studies at the Academy from 1905 – 1907 under William Merritt Chase and Thomas Anshutz. George William Sotter lived in Holicong, Pennsylvania, near New Hope, in a converted 19th Century stone barn. There, in his studio, he painted landscape scenes of Bucks County, which link Sotter to the New Hope School of American Impressionism...

Hortense DURY-VASSELON (1860-1924) Still Life with Roses and China Jewel Box Oil on canvas signed and dated 1905 low left DIm canvas : 63 X 50 cm Di...

Portrait of a Lady, c. 1900 Oil on canvas 36 x 28 1/2 in. Framed: 37 3/4 x 30 1/2 in.

First Snow, Rouen Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 29.5 x 37.5 inches Provenance Private Collection (Walter Brown Collection Texas) Alan Barnes Fine Ar...

Antique Dog Portrait of a Bulldog "Big Ben in Garden" Arthur Wardle (England, 1864-1949) Pastel on paper Circa 1900 13 x 9 inches Though he made his reputation with large-scale oils, Wardle is now remembered for his pastels, Christopher Wood...

Frederick Vezin (1859 Torresdale Philadelphia - 1933 Düsseldorf), Autumn Landscape in the Sunlight, oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard, 32 x 41 cm (inside measurement), 44 x 51 cm (...

Alfred Fontville De BREANSKI A typical example of De Breanski's highland landscapes with a wonderful sunlight glow on the mountain tops and lovely attention to detail with cattle gra...

Signed Lower Right by Artist Collier's Illustrated Weekly Cover, October 25, 1902

Signed Lower Right by Artist

Gifford Beal is a very noted American artist represented in American museums and within the Impressionist and Post Impressionist era. Elegant and abstracted this has jewel tones and...

Scandinavian School, early twentieth century. Inscribed, verso, on stretcher bar, 'Anna Ancher' with indistinct inscription and painted circa 1910. A psychologically-penetrating portrait of a young woman shown in profile, wearing a gold earring and a polychrome silk headscarf...

Antique modernist landscape painting. Oil on canvas. Housed in a period frame. Image size, 17.5L x 13.75H. Signed.

Francis Dodd R.A. 1874-1949 British landscape artist, portrait painter and printmaker. Much travelled, Italy, France and Spain, settled in Manchester and moved to Blackheath London ...

Dewhurst painted several paintings of the park surrounding the palace of Versailles. In this example, the dramatic foliage of the trees and avenue of summer blooms lead the eye to a ...

Here is a painting that will lift you - one feels happy every time one looks at it. It is such a lovely, unusual twist to the theme of the floral still life: here we have flowers, not in a vase, but attached to a wooden front door. I wonder if the artist did this with actual flowers, perhaps for a sweetheart, and then decided to paint the scene? At any rate: who wouldn't want to come home to find a large bunch of glorious lilac as they come home? The artist is Emile Baudoux (1850 -1929), who studied with Humbert and Cabanel. Paris-born, he liked to work in Normandy, where he had his studio. He exhibited his work at the "Salon des Artistes Français" until 1927, where he obtained a gold medal in 1910. The important oil on canvas presented here, dating from 1901, may have been shown at the Salon, as it bears an exhibition number "30" at the upper right of the canvas. Measuring 81 x 60 cm, the overall size including its original large oak frame...

In this interior illustration for "When the Heart Beats Young" by J.W. Riley, pioneering female illustrator Ethel Franklin Betts creates an intimate statement of mother and child in an embrace. The composition is abstract with patterns that suggest the influence of Asian art—initialed lower right. Work is framed under glass - Oil on board Ethel Franklin Betts Bains (September 6, 1877 – October 9, 1959) was an American illustrator primarily of children's books during the golden age of American illustration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Betts first gained work illustrating magazines, including St. Nicholas Magazine, McClure's, and Collier's. Beginning in 1904, she was commissioned to illustrate several books, including James Whitcomb Riley's The Raggedy Man, While the Heart Beats Young, and Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess...

Andrew Thomas Schwartz (American, 1867-1942) The Fates, c. 1900 Oil on canvas 30 x 30 in. Framed: 39 1/4 x 39 in. Andrew T. Schwartz was born in Louisville, Kentucky. His early education was in the public schools of his hometown, where he showed great promise as an artist. In 1890, he began intense art study with the famed Frank Duveneck at the Cincinnati ArtAcademy. He later studied with H. Siddons Mowbray at the Art Students League in New York, where he was awarded the Lazarus Scholarship for mural painting to study abroad, which resulted in three years of study in Italy, France, Germany and England. He was, at the time, only the second person to win that award. His work from the Lazarus trip was the subject of an individual show at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He returned to the United States to assist his teacher Mowbray in decorating the University Club and J. P. Morgan's private library in New York. He later worked independently and developed a following as a mural painter. His reputation was certainly enhanced by the mural Christ, the Good Shepherd for the Baptist Church in South Londonderry, Vermont, which was considered at the time one of the best examples of mural painting. Other murals were painted for the Courthouse of New York, the New York YMCA, the Atkins Museum of Fine Art in Kansas City and the Kansas City Life Insurance Company Building. Schwartz also painted a number of other paintings in addition to his murals, including both figurative and landscapes. Many of his landscapes are views of New England. He exhibited extensively at the National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, and other major cities. He was a member of the National Society of Mural Painters, the Salmagundi Club, the Architectural League of New York, Allied Artists of America, American Watercolor Society, the Circolo Artistico of Rome, Italy, and the Union International Des Beaux Arts et Des Lettres of Paris, France. A memorial show of Schwartz's work was held at the Lotus Club of New York City in 1944 through the efforts of the sculptor, Charles Keck. The dean of art critics of the time, Royal Cortissoz, viewed Schwartz's work before the exhibition in Keck's studio and wrote, "Schwartz could saturate an Italian scene in the handsome 'Roman Twilight' but when he came to paint the countryside of his native land he was moved solely by its racy sentiment. He had charm as well as craftsmanship." Perhaps the best tribute one artist can give another was given Schwartz by the famed American artist, Elihu Vedder...

This early 20th-century oil painting by Danish artist Peter Tom-Petersen (1861-1926) depicts a view on the Brahetrolleborg estate. Beyond a fence with climbing rose bushes, three me...

Impressionist River landscape, English Fisherman on river at Sunrise with a Cottage. Owen Morgan was a classic British Impressionist. While Impressionism is often associated with F...

Signed with initials M.P. (lower right); inscribed Article III. "Irrigation" water let in on a field of alfalfa (in the lower margin) Written on back "February of 1902. Hot Springs,...

ALBERT MARQUET (BORDEAUX, 1875 – PARIS, 1947) Maisons à Billancourt Vers 1903-1904 Période fauve Huile sur toile 50,2 x 60,2 cm. Signé en bas à droite « marquet » Provenance (Probabl...

Storm (At Sea) Oil on board, c. 1908 Signed: L. O. Griffith lower left (see photo) Titled on label verso Image: 6 5/8 x 8 3/4" Frame: 10 x 12 x 1 1/2" Provenan...

Signed and dated landscape oil on panel by impressionist painter Henri Duhem. The work depicts a snow-covered barge making its way down the canal in Douai at evening. Signature: Si...

The Belle Epoque Lady French School, signed and dated 1907 oil painting on canvas: 24 x 19.5 inches antique original gilt frame: 29 x 24 inches condition:...

Landscape with figures in a cottage signed by W.Greaves oil on canvas, framed dated 1909 framed: 10 x 19 inches canvas: 9 x 18 inches provenance: private collection, UK condition: ve...

Henry George Keller (American, 1868-1949) Cattle Series Study, 1901 Oil on canvas Signed verso 22 x 26 inches 28.5 x 33 inches, framed Keller, a leading painter in Cleveland, was born at sea, off Nova Scotia on April 3, 1869. His earliest training was in Karlsruhe, Germany under Hermann Baisch (1846-1894), then at the Cleveland School of Art...

Signed with monogram lower left * The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art contains more paintings (nine) by Georges D’Espagnat than any other nineteenth- or ...