Early 1900s Paintings

Elegant Victorian original oil portrait of Mrs. Rogerson by John Charlton Robert Azensky Fine Art is pleased to offer this fine example of Victorian portraiture of Mrs. Frances Mary...

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...

Here for your consideration is a wonderful oil on canvas painting by the well known French artist, Albert Regagnon. Titled verso, “Bord de L’’Eau” (The Riverside) Signed and dated lower left, 1906. Condition is excellent. Original period frame in fine condition. Mild wear consistent with age. Overall framed measurements are 20.5 by 24 inches. Provenance: Joseph M. de Gimme Gallery, Grosse Point, Michigan. (label verso) Albert Regagnon, French (1874-1961) Regagnon received many honors for his body of painting during his long and productive career, and exhibited regularly at the Paris Salons. Regagnons’ fascination for the Barbizon painters...

The turn of the 20th century, known as the Belle Époque, was a period of cultural and artistic flourishing in Europe, particularly in France. Among the many artists who captured the ...

This superb British Impressionist portrait oil painting is by noted female artist Florence Kate Upton. Born in America to English parents, Upton visited Britain with her family aged 20 and remained here to further her art career. Although a children's book illustrator, Upton was first a painter and exhibited at the Paris Salon and the Royal Academy. This lovely portrait, painted circa 1900, is a half length profile view of a lady in a black dress with gold front panel. A vibrant peacock blue shawl is across her arm and the background is a rich plum coloured drape. She has a black and silver choker...

Antique French Impressionist oil painting on panel by Paul Louis Poseler (XIX-XX), circa 1900. The painting depicts a scene o...

Painted by the noted British Impressionist Philip Wilson Steer, this fine oil portrait depicts a young woman and was painted circa 1900. Educated at South Kensington Schools and Acad...

Antique impressionist painting of Castillo De Los Tres Reyes Del Morro in Cuba. Oil on canvas, circa 1908. Signed. Displayed in a period giltwood frame. Image, 18"L x 12"H, overa...

This wonderful atmospheric Scottish Impressionist landscape oil painting is by much noted and exhibited Scottish artist William Stewart MacGeorge. Painted circa 1900 the view is of K...

EDUARDO LEÓN GARRIDO Spanish, 1856- 1949 PLACE CLICHY signed "E. L Garrido" (lower right) oil on canvas 24-1/8 x 19-3/4 inches (61 x 50 cm.) framed: 33-1/4 x 28-7/8 inches (84 x 73 cm.) PROVENANCE Private Spanish Collector Fresh and bright view of Clichy Square, Paris, where Leon Garrido offers us his most impressionistic and innovative technique. The work has a pyramidal composition, from where monument to "Mariscal Moncey" on an 8 meter high pedestal and decorated with bas-reliefs that dominates the entire square. The florist occupies a central place, from which distinguished figures appear around her. Its delicate and smooth chromaticism in gray and pearly dark almost black and a touch of red. Eduardo León Garrido (Madrid, 1856 - Caen, 1949) was a Spanish painter. He began his training at the Higher School of Painting in Madrid and as a disciple in Vicente Palmaroli...

Vladimir Glushenkov (1948-2009) (May 21, 1948, Riga - December 26, 2009, Riga) - painter, graphic artist, poet, translator. Vladimir Glushkenkov was born in family with Russian-Poli...

Number 382 in the Schoonover raisonné. Signed and dated 1909. Beautifully reframed in custom 23 karat gold leaf frame.

Wonderful figures in night landscape oil on canvas circa 1904 by French impressionist painter and illustrator Andre Devambez. The piece depicts demonstr...

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...

Mt. Tamalpais and Stream in the Spring circa 1900 Stream above Lake Bon Tempe with Mt. Tamalpais in the background. A warm spring day in Northern California and the Bay Area. Excelle...

This lovely British Edwardian Impressionist portrait oil painting is by female artist Sybil Maude. Painted circa 1905 the painting is a charming seated portrait of a young Cornish gi...

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

FREDERICK CAYLEY ROBINSON, ARA, RWS (1862-1927) A Summer Evening Signed l.r.: CAYLEY-ROBINSON; inscribed on the reverse: A Summer Evening/Exhibited at Leicester Galleries Oil on paper 16.5 by 18.5 cm., 6 ½ by 7 ¼ in. (frame size 38.5 by 40 cm., 15 ¼ by 15 ¾ in.) Exhibited: London, Leicester Galleries, Small Paintings and Sketches by the Late F. Cayley Robinson, ARA, RWS, December 1929 Born in Brentford-on-Thames, the son of a stockbroker, Robinson began his artistic training at the St John’s Wood...

Original illustration for an article entitled "While the Mother Works: A Look at the Day Nurseries of New York" by Lillie Hamilton French, published in The Century Magazine...

"Fantasia of Arabian Horseman" dated 1903 André Chaumière (French, XlX-XX) Oil on canvas Handcrafted original wood frame with bronze applique 20 3/4 x 12 3/4 (28 1/2 x 20 frame) inc...

Walter Shirlaw 1838-1909, was a Scottish born American painter who lived in America from the age of two years old. Shirlaw studied in Munich where he befriended American painters Fra...

Wonderful watercolor depicting a plant/flower. These were used at a Belgium University to teach the students about botany. Dating from the early 20th century. They are watercolor on ...

A cabinet-sized oil on panel showing a lively view of Venice with figures in gondolas on the Bacino San Marco and with the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute rising in the backgrou...

A fine tonalist landscape by American artist J. Francis Murphy (1853-1921). Murphy was born in Oswego, New York, he moved to Chicago in 1868, where his father was employed in the shipping industry. In Chicago, Murphy began working as a scene painter in a local theatre and was quickly promoted to lead his co-workers. Largely self-taught, his only training consisted of a few classes at the Chicago Academy of Design. There he became friends with Emil Carlsen and Theodore Robinson, and in 1873, Academy members elected him an Associate; a few weeks later, he became an Academician. His work was first exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1876, where he was inducted eleven years later.He won numerous prizes, medals and honors for his landscape paintings, which are said to rank with those of George Inness, Alexander Wyant, and Homer Martin. Although his world was a limited one, his landscapes captured the forms of nature and the subtle nuances of the scene. Murphy was referred to as the "American Corot" because of his similarity to the painting style of Camille Corot (1796-1875), one of the original Barbizon...

Artist: Santinetti, Italian (XIXth-XXth) Title: Sailboats in Venice Year: 1900 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed Size: 14 in. x 30 in. (35.56 cm x 76.2 cm) Frame: 26.5 x 36 inches

Signed lower right "H.V. Mook" (Dutch, born 1905) and painted circa 1925. A delicate, early-20th-century Impressionist oil landscape showing a pastel view of sand dunes sprinkled wi...

Many of you clicking on this watercolor are probably doing so because you know of Ellsworth Woodward, who with his brother William Woodward around the turn of the 20th century sparke...

In original gold leaf pierced frame Signed and dated lower left 1902 Sight size 6 x 8 in

Antique American impressionist oil painting of a fall landscape. Oil on canvas, circa 1900. Apparently unsigned. Displayed in a period giltwood frame. Image size, 50"L x 30"H, ov...

Signed lower left, 'G. Giardiello' for Giuseppe Giardiello (Italian, 1877-1920) and painted circa 1900. A skilled late 19th century Italian landscape painter, little is known about ...

Signed lower right, 'Fred. Ballard Williams' for Frederick Ballard Williams (American, 1871-1956) and dated 1906. An early twentieth-century oil showing two young women in classical robes, one standing holding a polished silver mirror while her companion braids her hair with flowers, all beneath a canopy of foliage with a distant view beyond towards a body of blue water. Frederick Ballard Williams first artistic training took place artistic training took place at the Cooper Union in New York and he subsequently worked for a time in the drafting room of John Williams. He later studied at the New York Institute of Artists with John Ward Stimson, before enrolling in the life class of the National Academy of Art where he studied under Charles Yardley Turner and Edgar Melville Ward. Williams made two trips to Europe, first in 1904 and again in 1908. During his first trip, he visited France, staying with Henry Golden Dearth...

Eugène Galiany aka Eugène GALIEN-LALOUE (1854-1941) A delightful pastoral Normandy landscape by the master of this genre Galien-Laloue. Signed E Galiany and presented in a walnut ...

Signed and dated oil on original canvas by French post impressionist painter Paul Madeline. This beautiful work depicts a mill on the bank of a river - water cascading over the rocks...

A large portrait of Vivien Chartres, by Vittorio Matteo Corcos, Italian/British, 1907 Frame: height 175cm, width 95cm, depth 5cm Canvas: height ...

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Robertson K. Mygatt (American, 1862-1919) Uplands Oil on panel, 5 1/4 x 6 5/8 inches FRAMED: 9 x 10 1/2 inches (approx.) Exhibition label on verso: "Salamagundi Club/Thumb-box Exhibi...

Antique landscape oil painting with a blazing sunset. Oil on canvas-board, circa 1900. Displayed in a period giltwood frame. Image, 17.5"L x 11.5"H.

Signed lower right Sight size 10 x 14 inches Overall size with blue mat and walnut and gold liner frame 17.5 x 21.5 inches. Circa 1910

This superb British Edwardian Impressionist portrait oil painting is by noted portrait artist James Jebusa Shannon. Painted circa 1906, oil on panel and part of a family collection, it is a half length portrait of a blond lady in lace which is depicted with bold, free brushwork. This is a stunning Edwardian portrait by a much sought after artist, housed in a superb period gilded oak frame. Provenance. Family collection. Condition. Large oil on panel, 30 inches by 20 inches unframed and in fine gallery condition. Housed in a stunning gilded oak frame of the period, 40 inches by 30 inches framed and in good condition. Sir James Jebusa Shannon RA (1862–1923) was an Anglo-American artist. Shannon was born in Auburn, New York...

MODEST URGELL Spanish, 1839 - 1919 CATALONIA LANDSCAPE signed “Urgell” (lower left) oil on canvas 27-1/4 x 51-1/4 in. (69 x 130 cm.) framed: 31-1/4 x 55-...

Le Resesquement a l'Advocats (The Legal Reservation) Pastel on paper, c. 1910 signed lower right Image size: 10 3/4 x 14 inches Frame size: 23-1/2 x 26-1/2 x 2-3/8 inches Condition: ...

19th Century Swedish, Oil on canvas

A fine and important French oil painting of Napoleon & his army, by the French-American artist Raymond Desvarreux (1876-1963), the painting signed & dated 1906. The painting depicts Napoleon seated in his carriage examining battle plans...

Artist: Stephen Enoch Hogley, British (1842 - 1927) Title: Watering Hole Year: circa 1900 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 20 in. x 30 in. (50.8 ...

JULES-ALEXIS MUENIER (French, 1863–1942) Landscape Oil on canvas, 25 1/2 x 21 1/4 inches FRAMED: 34 1/2 x 30 (approx.) Signed and dated at lower right: “J. A. MUENIER/1908” Provena...

Antique American impressionist coastal painting by Clarence Braley (1854 - 1927). Oil on canvas, circa 1900. Signed. Displayed in a period modernist ...

Signed and dated oil on canvas riverscape by French impressionist painter Charles-Victor Guilloux. The work depicts a view of the houses of the commune Heblay-sur-Seine lining the ba...

Oil Painting by Charles Walter Oswald "Evening in the Glen" Born1850, flourished in 1900. A Liverpool painter of the Highland cattle and working ...

Artist: Unknown after Gaetano Esposito Title: Painter with a Pipe Year: circa 1900 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed illegibly verso Size: 16.5 x 13 in....

Signed divisionist landscape oil on canvas by Belgian post impressionist painter Modest Huys. This stunning piece depicts workers on the bank of a river loading flax onto barges. Signature: Signed lower right Dimensions: Framed: 23"x27" Unframed: 15"x19" Provenance: Private collection - Belgium Modest Huys (25 October 1874, in Zulte – 30 January 1932, in Zulte) was a Flemish impressionist and luminist painter, who is regarded as one of the greatest Belgian painters of the 20th century. From a young age, Modest Huys worked in his father's painting and decorating business and later studied at the "Gentse Nijverheidschool" (Ghent Industrial School). In 1891 or 1892, he came into contact with Emile Claus, who encouraged his artistic inclinations. In 1900, he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts where his teachers were Eugène Joors and Frans Van Leemputten but he never completed his studies. It was about this time that he became lifelong friends with the author Stijn Streuvels. In 1902, he debuted at the Sint-Lucasgilde in Kortrijk and began to exhibit more widely. He spent time in Meetjesland, painting landscapes. From 1905, he participated in the exhibitions of Vie et Lumière...

'The Feather Boa,' a large oil painting of Miss Crofton by Herbert Sidney British, 1901 Frame: height 193cm, width 115cm, depth 6cm Canvas: height 143, width 77cm, depth 3cm By the British artist Herbert Sidney, (1858-1923), this remarkable full length portrait also titled 'The Feather Boa,' depicts Miss Alice...

Antique American school winter impressionist landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Nicely framed. Signed. Image size, 16L x 12H.

Wilhelm von Gegerfelt Swedish, 1844-1920 Moonlight Over the Promenade Oil on canvas 27 by 45 in. W/frame 39 by 57 in. Signed lower right Wilh...

Signed post impressionist landscape oil on panel by popular French painter Georges D'Espagnat. The piece depicts the beach at Belle Ile, an island off the coast of Brittany in France, at sunset. An exceptional early painting by D'Espagnat which shows the precursor influence of Fauvism which was to dominate his paintings in the following few years. Signature: Signed lower right Dimensions: Framed: 23"x26" Unframed: 15"x18" Provenance: Private French collection A certificate of authenticity from Mr. Jean-Dominique Jacquemond is available upon request. This work will be included in the catalogue raisonne of Georges D'Espagnat under preparation by Mr. Jacquemond From the beginning of his career, it was a constant concern of Georges d'Espagnet to assert his originality. His studies at the École des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, did not last very long, for he wanted immediate independence and decided to follow courses in the private academies of Montparnasse. In about 1900, he became acquainted with Maurice Denis, Bonnard and Vuillard, and his collaboration with Denis led to a renewal of religious art in France. In 1903, d'Espagnet was one of the founders of the Salon d'Automne, and was appointed professor in charge of studios at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in 1934. He illustrated a number of books: Rémy de Gourmont's Evil Prayers ( Oraisons mauvaises) (1896), The Saints of Paradise ( Les Saintes du paradis) (1898), Simone (1907), Sistine ( Sixtine) (1922); Alphonse Daudet's The Immortal ( L'Immortel) (1930); André Gide's The Pastoral Symphony ( La Symphonie pastorale); Francis Jammes' Clearings in the Sky ( Chairières dans le ciel) (1948). D'Espagnet belongs to the group of artists who made the Courrier Français so successful. The drawings of his which are published in it are strongly expressive and some bear comparison with the designs of the great Renaissance masters. He also contributed to L'Image. He often placed cheerful nudes in a landscape, reminding us that, though he moved away from the Fauves, he retained their freedom of colour and arabesque. He painted many portraits, including those of Albert André, André Barbier, Victor Boucher, Déodat de Séverac, Albert Marque, André Marty and Albert Roussel. He also painted mural decorations, including a wall for the Palais de la Découverte (1937), the ceiling of the Victor Hugo Room in the Palais du Luxembourg (1939), a decorative panel for the Palais de Justice, Toulouse (1941) and interior decorations for private houses. His landscapes are Impressionist in inspiration, and work for a certain sobriety, an intimacy, both in their composition - one, two or three sketched figures and large open spaces - and in the choice of colours and treatment with the special hazy brushstroke that marks his style. D'Espagnet took part in a number of annual Parisian exhibitions, including the Salon des Indépendants, the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, the Salon d'Automne (from 1903 to 1949, except in special circumstances), the Salon de la Libre Ésthétique, Brussels (1899, 1901), the Berlin Secessionists (1940). He also exhibited at the first Salon de la Société de la Gravure sur Bois. Among other exhibitions were 1912, A Century of French Art ( Centenaire de l'art français), St Petersburg; 1916, Kunstverein, Winterthur; 1918, 1926, Galerie M. Bertheim, Paris; 1930, Contemporary French Art...

Post-impressionist still-life painting by Albert Andre. A similar picture is in the collection of The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

French School Around 1900 The French Cancan, rework with variations of a composition by Pablo Picasso Oil on cardboard 32 x 26 cm unframed Damaged and cut corners (lower left), good...

Artist: Stephen Enoch Hogley, British (1842 - 1927) Title: Mountain Landscape Year: circa 1900 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed verso Size: 16 x 26 in...

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 ...